- US kids are encountering more ads on YouTube than any other platform (eMarketer)
- Facebook is trying its hand at the fantasy gaming market (Tech Crunch)
- Venice is one of the last festivals without a market—should that change? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nielsen’s rating accreditation has officially been suspended (Variety)
- Jenny Slate’s long-awaited Marcell the Shell movie is finally coming to screens (Entertainment Weekly)
- Disney is phasing out its Hotstar brand in the US, and rolling this content into Hulu and ESPN+ (Variety)
- The Arabic market is set for huge SVOD growth (Digital TV Europe)
- The Venice Film Festival is back amid industry uncertainty and concern (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok has added educational resources as part of its overall push for more parental features (Tech Crunch)
- …And the app’s parentco has acquired virtual reality startup Pico (CNBC)
- Disney is reportedly accelerating its European focus with plans for a lot more originals (TBI Vision)
- …And HBO Max is coming to Europe this fall (Variety)
- New regulations in China will limit video game play among kids to three hours a week, Fridays to Sundays (Wall Street Journal)
- The Delta variant and a lack of vaccines is shifting COVID-19 to being a virus for the young (WIRED)
- After two years in beta and an unexpected cancellation, a LEGO Star Wars game is getting a second life on Apple Arcade (Polygon)
- Ed Asner, the prolific actor known for his roles in Up and Elf, has died (Deadline)
- A new Disney animated short is inspired by the creator’s daily school trips (BBC News)
- TikTok had to ban the “milk crate challenge” for being too dangerous (Teen Vogue)
- The pandemic has been bad for a lot of people, but very good for online creators (Bloomberg)
- Apple has settled a lawsuit with app developers over pricing and commissions (Variety)
- Netflix may reach 2.6 million subscribers in Africa by the end of this year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fortnite ran a Martin Luther King Jr. tribute, and it was a disaster (The Daily Beast)
- Loneliness may be the real reason why kids don’t like school (The Atlantic)
- Unscripted TV has increasingly become a talent-led business, but what does that mean for formats? (TBI Vision)
- Hollywood movies are getting squeezed out in China, and that could change which films get made (Variety)
- If you’ve not been following along with the Jeopardy host drama, here’s why it matters (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok is reportedly testing 10-minute videos (Tubefilter)
- BBC chief content officer’s wide-ranging Edinburgh talk dove into public broadcasting, freelancer issues and more (Variety)
- Roblox has turned kids into little video game developers, and there is growing concern that they’re being exploited (WIRED)
- After getting flack for lack of progress, Disney has revealed plans for its revamped Splash Mountain ride (Entertainment Weekly)
- Netflix is planning a three-hour virtual fan event with clips from many new shows and movies (CNET)
- Black Widow has made US$125 million online, according to Disney (BNN Bloomberg)
- The US box office could miss out on hundreds of millions, thanks to several kids movies moving to on-demand (Numbers)
- Aardman is expanding its Wallace and Gromit AR experience to more cities in the US and UK (Campaign)
- …And TikTok is building its own augmented reality development platform (Tech Crunch)
- The PAW Patrol movie brought in US$13 million at the US box office this weekend (Deadline)
- The Addams Family 2 is the latest animated flick to get a simultaneous theatrical and on-demand release (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix’s UK content head has plans to tackle diversity, disability and local programming (Variety)
- …But in a quest to handle discoverability, has the streamer leaned too hard on clickbait content? (Slate)
- For the second year in a row VidCon has been cancelled due to a rise in COVID-19 cases (Variety)
- Fortnite’s liberal “borrowing” of Among Us‘ format may give us a peek at its future strategy (The Verge)
- If you’re headed to a Disney park any time soon, be ready for sentient robots (New York Times)
- Meghana Reddy’s journey from Chenai to sought-after visual development and 3D artist for Netflix and Hulu (The Hindu)
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