• Ty’s Toy Box has launched TTB Marketplace, an e-commerce network that will specialize in licensed brands. The site gives licensors and licensees access to outsourced e-commerce services, which will include a custom-branded online store, website design, online marketing services, real-time sales data and consumer buying analytics, warehousing, logistics and fulfillment.
• Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) has concluded a multi-year video-on-demand movie agreement with Big Pond, the leading broadband internet service provider in Australia. This is The Walt Disney Company’s first agreement in Australia for feature-film VOD downloads.
• The Fairly OddParents stage show debuted this spring in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the Gran Rex theatre. Owing to its success, creators EXIM Licensing Group and DT Entertainment are in discussions to take the 70-minute production to Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and El Salvador.