- Inside TV’s massive on-demand marketing shift (Variety)
- US network FX is a cautionary tale in spreading your brand across too many platforms (The Ringer)
- Netflix’s US TV boss is fighting back against the claim that the streamer wants “down-the-middle” programming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How blockchain and the metaverse will affect gaming in the future (Tech Crunch)
- In the middle of a big discussion on the future of pubcasting, the UK government shuffled its cabinet…now what? (Variety)
- JoJo Siwa is calling out Nickelodeon for not letting her perform her own songs and treating her “only as a brand” (Vanity Fair)
- Remember Quibi? Its lawsuit with Eko over who owns a piece of tech has finally wrapped up (Deadline)
- Canal+ parentco Vivendi is looking to acquire the rest of Lagardère (Digital TV Europe)
- Netflix is preparing for its big preview/fan event next week, and it needs to go well (Wall Street Journal)
- Company documents reveal that Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls (Wall Street Journal)
- The UK is baking-crazy—a new study reveals that the word “cake” is used 10 times more on TV than “climate change” (The Guardian)
- Streamers outperform broadcasters when it comes to hiring women and putting them in positions of power on shows (Variety)
- Despite the sunshine luring kids outdoors, video game spending hit record highs in August (BNN Bloomberg)
- Why is there still a fall TV season despite the streaming boom? (Variety)
- Extra studying won’t help with COVID-19 learning loss…but playing might (The Conversation)
- YouTube is on a mission to shut down music bots (Tubefilter)
- In creepy internet news, soon everyone will be able to clone their voice (The Verge)
- More staff shakeups at ViacomCBS: David Nevins will reportedly take over Paramount+ (Variety)
- Disney is planning to release several movies, including the animated Encanto, exclusively in theaters (Deadline)
- Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal beat out stiff competition to win Best Animated Series at the Primetime Emmys (IndieWire)
- How Hollywood sold out to China, and now can’t turn away (The Atlantic)
- With Hulu raising its price, how much is too much for consumers to spend on a streamer? (Los Angeles Times)
- Brian Robbins is reportedly going to take over leadership of Paramount Pictures (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix has set up an anime creators lounge in Tokyo to help new talent work on their art (Variety)
- …And here’s how the SVOD creates fake movies within its own original content (Vanity Fair)
- As China cracks down on video games, Tencent lost US$60 billion in value as investors fled (BNN Bloomberg)
- If you still don’t understand blockchain, now’s your chance to figure it out (The Verge)
- The edtech industry is leaning more heavily on the creator economy to engage kids…but should influencers be teachers? (Tech Crunch)
- Now that American kids are back in school, the focus will be on keeping them there (New York Times)
- Original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns wants to clear up why he left the show (CNN)
- You can thank a monkey for the new pop-it toy craze (BBC News)
- HBO Max has picked its first six European countries for an October launch (Variety)
- Privatization of the UK’s Channel 4 could spell the end for a lot of indies (TBI Vision)
- What happened to the smaller movie studios of the 2010s? (Collider)
- Popular ’90s export Round the Twist from Australia is being made into a stage musical (The Guardian)
- US school children spent less time in class than ever before in modern history…so now what? (The Atlantic)
- This weekend was all about Shang-Chi—the Marvel film had the highest opening weekend this year so far (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok has surpassed YouTube in terms of average watch time in the US and UK (BBC News)
- Why is Wall Street under-appreciating Roku? (Variety)
- Sometimes weird things get stuck in your head…in this case, it’s a Nickelodeon Original Movie song (The Cut)
- Talk about cornering the market: Amazon is reportedly considering launching its own branded TV sets (Digital TV Europe)
- China has put forward a bill that would remove all “effeminate men” from its entertainment (Variety)
- YouTube has hit 50 million premium and music subscribers—a whopping 20 million more than last year (The Verge)
- Why is a COVID-19 vaccine for kids taking so long? (CNN)
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