- More moves for Maker: Disney absorbs the digital video network it bought two years ago into its media arm (Variety)
- You’ll have to wait a bit longer to feel like you’re in a movie, as IMAX delays its new VR theaters (The Verge)
- It was a big year for comic-book movies, and within those films are some hints of what’s coming next (Vanity Fair)
- What 2017 may look like for the world of digital marketing (AdWeek)
- Why, despite increased awareness, has the number of kids TV junk-food ads skyrocketed over the past four years? (The Huffington Post)
- Culture shock? Third Yo-kai Watch movie bests Rogue One at the Japanese box office… (Variety)
- …Even still, Disney has officially broken the US$7-billion box-office record in 2016 (The Guardian)
- With its US$560-million Gracenote purchase, Nielsen takes another step to improve its ratings accuracy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nineties nostalgia has been good to Hasbro this year (Yahoo)
- Teen YouTube creators make a run for Netflix in new original movie Coin Heist (TubeFilter)
- The legacy lives: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story rakes in US$290 million at the global box office (Fortune)
- Nintendo’s foray into mobile gaming has not exactly translated into stock market success (The Globe and Mail)
- A history of gendered toy marketing, and why girls are its greatest casualty (National Geographic)
- Vine swings into app mode, helping users migrate their followers to Twitter (Variety)
- Time to call in the Olsen twins? Netflix’s Fuller House reportedly isn’t sustaining viewership (TubeFilter)
- It’s called a golden parachute for a reason: Philippe Dauman pocketed US$93 million in his last year at Viacom (The Wrap)
- Holiday mentions: Hatchimals, Shopkins and Tsum Tsum are among the most talked-about toys and tech on social (alistdaily)
- Meanwhile, 2016 can be summed up in nine huge digital trends (AdWeek)
- Study finds racial disparity when it comes to junk-food ad exposure among US kids (The Washington Post)
- The leading reason why people shell out money for an app (eMarketer)
- How will children change as parenting becomes more tech-focused? (Quartz)
- And the mega-mergers continue: Fox’s US$23-billion takeover bid for Sky accepted (BBC)
- Well, not all mega-mergers: Redstones stop CBS merger talks, name Bob Bakish permanent Viacom CEO (Bloomberg)
- Starbucks launches animated short series with The Simpsons scribes (AdAge)
- Smoke and mirrors? Magic Leap is not close to being market-ready (The Verge)
- The full list of 2016 SAG Award nominees (Variety)
- Disney may be courting third-party studios to join its Movies Anywhere service (Bloomberg)
- Are these the best connected toys of 2016? (Forbes)
- Tech’s role in the classroom has many benefits, but it is also perpetuating a homework gap (attn:)
- Digital TV nets are shelling out more ad dollars than last year (MediaPost)
- The Lion King joins the US National Film Registry, along with 24 other films (Vanity Fair)
- Sensing some big moves ahead…Disney Research has mastered a new real-time motion-capturing system (TechCrunch)
- Scrap those images of outdoorsy Swedish children: A study finds more than half of the country’s kids are too inactive (The Local)
- Good news for YouTubers, as marketers plan to increase their influencer-led budgets next year (eMarketer)
- Walmart’s e-commerce biz braces for Christmas procrastinators (Fortune)
- Why is China’s box office continuing to decline? (Variety)
- Moana, Zootopia and Sing are among this year’s Golden Globe nominees (Vanity Fair)
- Imagine what the world would be like if Star Wars or Harry Potter were never made (The Guardian)
- The kids aren’t exactly alright: US children are a lot less likely to out-earn their parents (NPR)
- Starbucks’ new Pokémon GO Frappuccino is here to resist the app’s cooling effect (Advertising Age)
- A high-tech Santa experience descends upon US malls (LIMA Ohio)
- The most popular YouTuber just hit 50 million subscribers, and he is about to delete his account (The Verge)
- UK kids don’t want to watch VOD content if it’s long (eMarketer)
- Following in Netflix’s footsteps, Hulu now lets people (including kids) create profiles (TechRadar)
- Are young vloggers sacrificing their childhoods? (Stuff)
- What Warren Buffett’s opinion about Walmart says about the mega retailer’s future (The Globe and Mail)
- UK bans online junk food ads targeting kids (BBC News)
- Still a long way to go, baby—STEM-focused toys are three times more likely to target boys than girls (The Guardian)
- Amazon is bringing the punk with its first animated feature based on Emily the Strange (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Gadgets aren’t going anywhere, despite what you may have heard (The Verge)
- A phenomenon as big as Pokémon GO deserves its own documentary, as decided by Japanese broadcaster Fuji TV (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Speaking of overnight sensations, this bestselling author just bought US$20,000 worth of Hatchimals (Clinton Herald)
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