Kidscreen Staff
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- UK entertainment execs form Wildseed Studios and will make up to 50 content investments over the next three years (Wired)
- Nearly a quarter of the world’s population is social networking – that’s a whole lot of status updates (eMarketer)
- Disney is leading the licensing game, but it’s interesting to see by how much and because of which properties (Variety)
- Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system will come with a curated kids gaming category (Polygon)
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- Cooler weather – and demand for electronics- impacts Toys ‘R’ Us’ bottom line (The Wall Street Journal)
- Cause for a Vegas-style celebration? In time for Licensing Expo, news that the entertainment licensing industry grew by 2.8% last year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Man of Steel speeds like a bullet, earning big bucks on opening weekend (Forbes)
- Will Apple win the Smart TV race? (Time)
Ratings Watch Global – Germany
KID INSIGHT / TVThis week Eurodata TV has provided us with the ratings for the top-five program broadcasts with kids four to 15 in the Germany between May 5 and June 9, 2013.
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- Disney sets film release dates for 2014/15… (L.A. Times)
- …Meanwhile, Spielberg and Lucas predict massive implosion of film industry (The Independent)
- Twitter opens up performance analytics to all – see how those 140 characters are working for your brand (TechCrunch)
- When will it hit the mass market? Jedi-like hover bike takes off (Wired)
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- It’s a plane! No, it’s a sequel! Zack Snyder-directed Superman 2 fast-tracked at Warner Bros. in advance of Man of Steel debut (Deadline)
- Is 3D TV going bust? Disney to shut down 3D ESPN channel, citing lack of consumer tech adoption (Reuters)
- Attention marketers – Facebook now supporting hashtags #latetotheparty (Mashable)
- Sour pusses? Study finds Lego mini-figure faces getting angrier (The Guardian)
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- Sony unveils PS4 – undercuts new Xbox by US$100 at retail (All Things D)
- New Ernst & Young study says digital will generate majority of entertainment income by 2015 (The Wrap)
- An examination of the kind of content that’s king in the SVOD wars (The Motley Fool)
- Intel is buying content for its new TV service and its paying up to 75% more than cable (Reuters)
- US tween discount retailer Five Below continues expansion, sales soar (Bloomberg)
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- SpongeBob and the looming SVOD war between Netflix and Amazon (The MotleyFool)
- Google celebrates Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday with an animated tour (CNet/Google)
- This year’s top 50 creative thinkers in entertainment, tech and advertising (AdAge)
- A peek inside the creative process of specialty toyco Melissa & Doug (New York Times)
- On the eve of E3, the worst console game ever made, resurfaces (Mashable)
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- Amazon Kindles head for one of the world’s largest mobile markets (CNET)
- And as Kindles enter China, DreamWorks Animations’ The Croods is on its way out (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Video games have sparked many ethical debates, but the latest study finds that they actually make kids more morally aware (The Independent)
- After conquering the world of adolescent girls, Justin Bieber sets sights on space (Mashable)


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