- Soul took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, marking Pixar’s 11th win in the category (Los Angeles Times)
- What’s the best way to handle the “lost year” of learning? (Vox)
- Kids aren’t just playing kids games, and that’s a major opportunity for developers (Games Industry)
- Roku and Google are feuding, which could result in YouTube leaving the OTT (Deadline)
- Celebrities are investing in a social media app aiming to be a kid-safe TikTok alternative (CNN)
- The UK has launched a new fund to boost content exports (Variety)
- Many Hollywood directors over 40 face age discrimination, new research finds (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Blaze Entertainment is going old-school with a new console that can play retro video games (Engadget)
- Audiences prefer films with diverse casts, new research from UCLA reveals (Variety)
- Pixar is rolling out a new Soul short on Disney+ (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …And Sony’s Spider-Man movies are headed to the Disney streamer, too (The Verge)
- HBO Max has surpassed expectations with three million more subscribers (Deadline)
- Now that the US is saturated with SVODs, the streaming war is being waged internationally (The Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix plans to spend more than US$17 billion on content this year—a big increase over 2020 (Variety)
- Apple looks to make a business out of podcasts with a new subscription model (Vox)
- Roku is rebranding Quibi’s content and preparing to launch 75 shows (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In the face of legal restrictions, Facebook will not sell ads in its Instagram app for kids (Digiday)
- Nielsen is refusing to audit its pandemic ratings amid undercounting concerns (Variety)
- Godzilla vs Kong is Hollywood’s top-grossing movie of the pandemic (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Paramount+ is going global as streamers battle to capture international eyeballs (Deadline)
- Clubhouse has reportedly raised US$4 billion in new funding, and the competition wants a piece (TechCrunch)
- Should US schools really offer virtual school in the fall? (Intelligencer)
- A storm is brewing over SVOD rights as WGA and CBS All Access have reached a settlement for streaming residuals (Variety)
- …And the writers of Predator are suing Disney+ to recapture their rights (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The recent Sony and Netflix first-look movie deal makes you wonder…why didn’t Netflix just buy Sony? (Vulture)
- Microsoft has launched a new web browser just for kids (Yahoo News)
- Disney+ has plans for three new older-skewing original series out of Europe (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How the streaming wars are really about who has the biggest IPs (Variety)
- France wants to place new obligations on SVOD platforms, but the European Commission is hesitant to back the plan (Digital TV Europe)
- Amazon Prime has surpassed 200 million users (CNET)
- …Meanwhile, the tech giant is being accused of strong-arming partners across multiple businesses (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix is revamping kid profiles to distinguish them from the adult accounts (Tech Crunch)
- Is early specialization the key to kids’ success? (CNBC)
- Out of all the streamers, 39% of Americans think Netflix has the best original content (Variety)
- …And the inside scoop on Netflix’s new deal with Sony (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Europeans and South Americans consume more TV than North Americans, according to a new study (Variety)
- Epic Games—the maker of Fortnite and Unreal—has raised US$1 billion (Reuters)
- Spring and summer could see a huge toy sales boom…are toymakers ready? (Toy News)
- In a surprise twist, Americans have too much toilet paper and sales are tumbling (Wall Street Journal)
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