- Toy companies have been caught up in the Suez Canal blockage (Toy News)
- With its mid-2000s webisode plots, iCarly may feel a bit dated now, but the show is still very relevant (Insider)
- New social media platform Bigo Live is trying to create an online environment without toxic content (Toronto Star)
- Why does Microsoft want to buy Discord? (The Verge)
- Pixar’s Soul took home the Producer’s Guid Award for best animated feature, likely locking in the Oscar (USA Today)
- Warner Bros. is going to bring its movies back to theaters, and not on HBO Max starting in 2022 (Polygon)
- A new inquiry has found that UK broadcasters are being held back by antiquated legislation in the fight against SVODs (Variety)
- Mattel has joined several other California-based companies in signing an equal pay pledge (Forbes)
- Disney is changing up its release schedule, delaying several films and pushing another animated feature straight to SVOD (Forbes)
- Even after the pandemic ends, TV habits may never go back to “normal,” according to new research (Advanced Television)
- What will the future of office work look like? (Recode)
- It’s not too late to get in on the action: Blockchain is doing extremely well with NFT sales (Wall Street Journal)
- Roku has recruited the former Funny or Die content team for its new ad studio (Variety)
- HBO Max won’t launch in UK, Italy or Germany until 2025 because of an existing deal with Sky (Financial Times)
- Does anyone have US$3 billion? ViacomCBS is looking to raise some serious cash for its content push (Digital TV Europe)
- A look inside Ryan Kaji’s YouTube empire (Bloomberg)
- Netflix’s The Sleepover won the only children’s prize at the Writer’s Guild Awards (News Break)
- Films are an anthropological tool that helps preserve global diversity (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Roku has acquired This Old House Venture’s 1,500-episode library (Variety)
- Inside Globo’s push for Brazilian kids content (TBI Vision)
- In entertainment, newbies have to pay their dues…but how do you do that in a pandemic? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- According to internal documents, Facebook is building an Instagram for under-13s (BuzzFeed News)
- A lot of parents have parked their guilt over screen time (Glamour)
- Keeping it classy: Next month’s Oscars ceremony won’t have any Zoom calls or jeans (Variety)
- …And the inside story of how Cartoon Saloon made its Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers (Medium)
- What role does Hollywood play in violence against Asian Americans? (Variety)
- The BBC is moving nearly US$1 billion of its production spend out of London to widen its “narrow urban outlook” (Deadline)
- Bowing to industry pressure, the Cannes Film Festival will hold an online market before its live event (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Play might be the most important thing kids are missing right now (The Washington Post)
- Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated reboot (TVLine)
- Canadian companies are building a video game to help kids with neurodevelopmental disabilities (Global News)
- BAFTA and the BFI are teaming up to combat bullying in the industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- AMC Networks is launching a “high-octane” master class for women on directing action in TV (Deadline)
- Several hard-to-find Star Wars TV spinoffs will launch on Disney+ in April (Variety)
- The company behind Bob’s Burgers is forming a new animation studio to tell Australian stories (Variety)
- Idris Elba is turning a page with a range of kids books (Good Housekeeping)
- Chinese conglom Alibaba could shed some of its assets under regulatory pressure (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Tubi is moving into original content and reportedly has some big money to offer (TBI Vision)
- Following its re-release in China, Avatar is now the highest-grossing film of all time (Deadline)
- Kids content from Disney and Netflix squares off in this year’s Oscar race (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, Disney is poised to dominate the streaming space by 2024 (The Guardian)
- Dungeons & Dragons had its biggest year ever when it moved the IP online (CNBC News)
- COVID-19 might not be all that bad for kids, but the pandemic is certainly weighing on their mental health (CBC News)
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