- Modern fatherhood looks a whole lot different than the days of yore─and marketers have taken note (eMarketer)
- Shanghai Disneyland is off to an encouraging start, with opening day tickets selling out within hours (Forbes)
- How American Idol forever changed the TV landscape 14 years ago (Los Angeles Times)
- The Australian toy industry rejects claims that gendered playthings are linked to domestic violence (Sydney Morning Herald)
- CastAR’s augmented reality gaming strategy is taking a page from Nintendo’s playbook (Games Industry)
- How more global collaborations and tech growth are boosting the Spanish TV animation biz (Variety)
- Just because a startup is well-funded doesn’t mean it will always succeed. Some lessons from the trenches (Fast Company)
- The box-office plight of Batman v. Superman (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Social media marketing may not be drive big retail bucks, after all (AdWeek)
- Beyond blonde: How startup GoldieBlox is bringing more diversity to its girl-skewing toys (Fortune)
- How will Hollywood fare in the age of virtual reality? (TechCrunch)
- Sounds of silence: Why is the market for kid-centric podcasts so barren? (The Atlantic)
- Loss of Disney Infinity spells trouble for Apple TV’s gaming initiatives (ars technica)
- Snow White’s sister to get her own live-action movie (Variety)
- Despite what you may have heard, young people are far from leaving Facebook en masse (Re/code)
- A newly launched Willy Wonka-themed app may be Zynga’s golden ticket (Venture Beat)
- HBO meets Walgreens: How Amazon’s retail prowess informs its studio production business (Wired)
- From model to role model, Karlie Kloss launches a coding camp for young girls (Fast Company)
- Toy makers and the world of play offer lessons on how to adapt to new technologies (Harvard Business Review)
- The significance behind former Disney chairman Dick Cook’s US$500-million deal with a Chinese movie company (Los Angeles Times)
- Star Wars technology is almost a reality with Microsoft’s new holoportation system (Gizmag)
- This psychologist believes in a child-rearing world devoid of any punishment (The Atlantic)
- Instagram wants to put a larger focus on video (The Hollywood Reporter)
Are smart toys just digital babysitters in disguise? (The Guardian) - Disney sets its retail sights on India (The Economic Times)
- Volume drop? TV series and movie lineups on Netflix US shrunk by more than 30% in the past two years (Digital TV Europe)
- The race is on as VR headsets start to reach consumers’ doorsteps (Los Angeles Times)
- The Neverending Story gives Spotify a dose of creative marketing manpower – and, of course, nostalgia (Advertising Age)
- Netflix’s plan to be a truly global network is very steadily coming to fruition (Wired)
- America’s favorite pastime is passe? Major League Baseball turns to social media to attract younger fans (AdWeek)
- Nearly 75% of UK kids spend under one hour outside every day – that’s less than prison inmates (Time)
- Girls are inherently interested in science, so why are so many missing from STEM-related programs?
- Sony PlayStation goes mobile, take two (Engadget)
- Inside the messy, convoluted and litigious world of media mogul Sumner Redstone (Vanity Fair)
- A creative future for Mattel rests in its past (CMO)
- What Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are doing wrong when it comes to making good TV shows (Vox)
- AwesomenessTV spreads its international wings (Digital TV Europe)
- Microsoft’s new chat robot wants to be BFF with mobile-toting young adults (CNET)
- Watch out Facebook and Twitter, Google’s live-streaming app YouTube Connect is on its way (Venture Beat)
- With Batman v. Superman set to debut, a look at how superheroes have historically fared at the box office (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The marathon is on: 70% of US consumers are now binge-watching TV shows (Variety)
- How Funko’s deeper dive into Star Wars mythology is boosting its subscription toy box biz (Wired)
- Move over, Walmart. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba may soon be the world’s largest retail platform (China Daily)
- YouTube is the music industry’s latest target amid an ongoing streaming war (Re/code)
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