- NFL sees bump in sponsorships and female viewers, thanks to Taylor Swift (The Wrap Pro)
- New UK free streaming service, backed by BBC, iTV and more, to launch Q2 2024 (THR)
- Going Home creator Dan Merchant on the faith-based entertainment trend (Deadline)
- Hulu and Disney+ to crackdown on password sharing (Wired)
- Annecy’s MIFA market launches a new division for extended reality and gaming formats (Variety)
- How AI can play a role in teen online safety and privacy (The Conversation)
- Disney may hold the key to the domestic box office hitting US$10 billion in 2026 (CNBC)
- Spielwarenmesse announces its 2024 Toy Award Winners (The Toy Book)
- A new report estimates that AI will disrupt 204,000 entertainment jobs within three years (Cartoon Brew)
- Paramount Global is betting big on the Super Bowl to power up its streaming business (THR)
- …Meanwhile, media mogul Byron Allen has offered US$30 billion to acquire Paramount (TBI Vision)
- Investor Nelson Peltz appeals to Disney shareholders to kick out two board members (Variety)
- Universal Music Group looks to remove music from TikTok over payment negotiations (Reuters)
- Top social media CEOs discuss kids’ online safety concerns before Congress (ABC News)
- Sky to cut nearly 1000 jobs in the UK amid consumers’ shift to streaming (The Guardian)
- Disney Channel cancels Secrets of Sulpher Springs after three seasons (Deadline)
- The Toy Association will host its Fall Preview market week in LA this year (The Toy Book)
- OpenAI teams with Common Sense Media for AI guidelines and family-friendly GPTs (TechCrunch)
- How TikTok plans to ramp up its e-commerce biz by opening studios in LA (The Wrap)
- Universal Epic Universe park to include Harry Potter and How To Train Your Dragon lands (THR)
- Johanna Faries has been named president of Blizzard Entertainment (Games Industry Biz)
- Channel 4 confirms 200 layoffs, reveals plans to become a digital-first pubcaster (Variety)
- Tech companies must now warn the US government before launching high-powered AI tools (Wired)
- Godzilla Minus One is the third highest-grossing non-English film in US box-office history (The Wrap)
- X to open Texas office dedicated to policing the platform’s content (Bloomberg)
- Omidia forecasts that streaming subscription revenue will eclipse North American pay-TV revenue by 2026 (DTVE)
- Netflix picks up the worldwide rights to Studio Ponoc’s 2D-animated film The Imaginary (Variety)
- Paramount’s CEO confirms more layoffs are planned this year as the company chases profitability (TBI Vision)
- The kidult action figure and collectibles sector headlines the 2024 London Toy Fair (Euronews)
- Florida lawmakers advance a bill to ban kids and teens from social media (Politico)
- Kyoto Animation arsonist sentenced to death in Japan for mass murder (Deadline)
- Comcast’s Q4 results are stronger than expected, thanks to parks and Peacock (The Wrap)
- Microsoft is laying off 1,900 in its gaming division following the Activision acquisition (Forbes)
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