Kidscreen Staff
Kidscreened
- Google’s Android is slightly leading mobile downloads this year, but the revenue race still goes to Apple (Mashable)
- TV affects kids’ weight more than any other screen says new study (Time)
- What Toca Boca is doing right in the children’s app space (The New Yorker)
- How Walmart is applying real-time marketing tactics to local TV (Advertising Age)
Kidscreened
- Finding the silver lining of the antenna – why children’s TV should be praised more often (The Guardian)
- When it comes to TV content, ABC is getting a little help from its Disney friend (The New York Times)
- How Hollywood will manage to effectively translate the pervasiveness of the tiny mobile screen to the big one (The Wall Street Journal)
- Is it a good thing that kids’ cartoons are taking on adult-like qualities? (Geek Exchange)
Kidscreened
- What exactly is the new Android-powered Facebook Home?
- Disney searches for glass slipper fit for new live-action Cinderella (CinemaBlend)
- How Jurassic Park ushered in a modern movie-going experience 20 years ago (Forbes)
- Know an animation up-and-comer? Internship opportunities abound at Pixar (Pixar)
Kidscreened
- Game over for LucasArts – Disney closes studio and moves to licensed gaming model (CNET)
- Australian study shows 20% of kindergarten children are developmentally vulnerable (Sydney Morning Herald)
- One parent presses Mattel for more ethnically diverse Barbie birthday party supplies (Time)
- Inside Intel’s discretion and potential TV disruption (Variety)
Kidscreened
- Toys and the gender roles they may or may not be reinforcing (The Huffington Post)
- The Facebook phone is here, but will it sell? (Advertising Age)
- A 17-year-old’s debut book on self-publishing platform Wattpad gets Random House deal (Publishers Weekly)
- Not surprisingly, digital video ad spending is growing rapidly (eMarketer)
Kidscreened
- Has Disney Junior dethroned Dora? Ratings show Nick Jr. down by as much as 50%. (The New York Times)
- Facebook faces mobile messaging apps that are holding kids’ attention spans (Reuters)
- The complicated relationship between children’s research and the way it’s portrayed in the media (The Huffington Post)
- In honor of World Autism Awareness Day, a roundup of the most effective resources for Autistic children (Mashable)
Kidscreened
- Why is Disney releasing a separate Iron Man 3 version in China?
- Activision ushers in a new age of ‘photorealistic’ characters (Mashable)
- A whopping 97% of kids meals at US restaurant chains are not meeting nutritional guidelines (Advertising Age)
- Meanwhile, one CBeebies show makes a conscious effort to change its character’s eating habits (Deadline)
Kidscreened
- A look this week’s top-ranking YouTube channels (Advertising Age)
- Looks like Google is thinking homegrown when it comes to manufacturing its Glasses gadget, a first for the company (Mashable)
- Coming soon: New teen-oriented TV channel is looking to ignite social change (Variety)
- Fisher-Price looks back in order to give its Little People new life (The Wall Street Journal)
Kidscreened
- Does TV breed bullies? Kids who watch three or more hours of TV per day at age five may develop some conduct issues (The Atlantic)
- Having already claimed the US market, Amazon.com is now the largest online retailer in Europe (Internet Retailer)
- Hardly apathetic about apps – studies show teen girls most likely to access the Web via their phones (eMarketer)
- Disney and News Corp reportedly go shopping for Hulu buyers (Chicago Tribune)
Kidscreened
- Don’t fret the uninterested, tired tyke. Why boredom breeds creativity for kids (BBC)
- Why it’s ‘really, really, really hard’ yet totally feasible for developers to make a living from kids’ apps (The Guardian)
- Digital and physical book sales led to a record year for Random House (Publishers Weekly)
- Where have all the console game developers gone? (Bloomberg)
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MIPCOM 2012 - Dr. Barbie Clarke of Family Kids and Youth kicked off the very first Digital Kids session