- YouTube’s top videos of the year aren’t from influencers—they’re all from brands (The Verge)
- Things are going south for Canada when it comes to US exports, with Mexico jumping ahead to nab the number-two spot (Bloomberg)
- Less promotion, more product: Snapchat Spectacles’ distribution strategy may be its undoing (eMarketer)
- It’s more than just nostalgia. Vinyl is officially outselling digital in the UK. (AdWeek)
- Children’s headphones may be causing hearing loss (The New York Times)
- The originals keep coming for Netflix, which is aiming for 1,000 hours of in-house fare by the end of 2017 (Polygon)
- There’s a new boss in town: Lego CEO steps down, giving the reins to the company’s first non-Danish head honcho (Bloomberg)
- PewDiePie is still the highest-paid YouTube creator, hauling in US$15 million this year (Variety)
- Here we go again…these connected toys were pulled from shelves after spying on kids (The Next Web)
- Brands are doubling down on live video, but is it a sustainable model? (AdWeek)
- Here’s what kids really think about all of those connected toys (The Guardian)
- Comedian Amy Schumer will likely be the face of Sony’s live-action Barbie film (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Will Brexit lead to a talent brain drain for UK startups? Digital minister Matt Hancock weighs in (TechCrunch)
- In China, movie blockbusters shine incredibly bright, but quickly fade away (Forbes)
- Developed by a nine-year-old girl, this talking teddy bear is making Syrian refugees feel at home (The Toronto Star)
- Some of YouTube’s biggest stars are seeing 40% drops in viewership, so who—or what—is to blame? (TubeFilter)
- Is it a mindset? Or a toy? However Lego is viewed, its success is indisputable (New York Magazine)
- Amazon’s streaming push just got serious ammunition from HBO (The Washington Post)
- Shonda Rhimes’ rules of work for managing a TV empire (Fast Company)
- The science of eye-rolling: What the mind of a teenage girl really looks like (The Globe and Mail)
- Fantastic Beasts roars past US$500 million at the worldwide box office (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Do influencer marketing campaigns actually work? A whopping 94% of brand practitioners say yes (AdWeek)
- Story-sharing platform Wattpad wants to be the next Disney (National Post)
- First GoPro, then FitBit and Pebble. Will Snapchat’s Spectacles be the next wearables flameout? (Vanity Fair)
- Ebay launches the world’s first emotionally powered store (Business Insider)
- Netflix’s brand-new offline streaming function will have big implications for on-the-go tots (The Verge)
- Disney severs ties with a Chinese toymaker over reported labor conditions (Fortune)
- Complete with a kids app, Virgin Media’s new TV service has its sights set on Sky (Alphr)
- That’s a pretty big deal: Americans spent a record-breaking US$3.45 billion on Cyber Monday (Advertising Age)
- When it comes to math and science, the top students in the world hail from Singapore (BBC)
- Twitter is getting exclusive Rogue One content following a new promotional deal with Disney (Recode)
- The connection of parent-child TV co-viewing goes far beyond content—it’s physical, too (ChildrenAndMediaMan)
- Why, three decades later, this Nickelodeon kids game show is still thriving (Entertainment Weekly)
- Forget writing a letter to Santa, kids get quicker results by texting him instead (The Post and Courier)
- Linear graph: How Jake Paul went from social media star to TV actor (Forbes)
- How e-commerce won Black Friday (Chicago Tribune)
- The story behind one of Nintendo’s most coveted games is not exactly a conventional one (ESPN)
- Who says Snapchat isn’t art? A man recreates iconic Disney using the app and a little imagination (Yahoo)
- This year’s Black Friday can be expected to keep US retailers in the red (Bloomberg)
- What Disney’s box-office domination means for the rest of Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Variety. Convenience. No ads. Data shows these are just some of the reasons why SVODs are prevailing (eMarketer)
- Can Pepper, a humanoid robot, bring some spice back to US malls? (Recode)
- Tweens and teens rejoice as selfie app FaceTune debuts a sequel (The Verge)
- From Moana to Queen of Katwe, 2016 will go down as the year of diversity for Disney (Vanity Fair)
- John Green, Zoella, Tyler Oakley: Are books by YouTubers creating a new generation of readers? (Booksellers)
- In the spirit of overindulgence, the TV world may be sending us too many Christmas specials (The New York Times)
- Canada’s first couple has something to say about quality kids programming and this year’s Shaw Rocket Prize (YouTube)
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