- 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)
- Pixar’s Soul took home Best Animation and Best Original Score at the BAFTAs (BBC Newsround)
- Godzilla vs. Kong topped the weekend box office once again, bringing in US$350 million (SyFy)
- Why are European IPs like Winx Club so popular with streamers right now? (Variety)
- Is MIPTV more relevant than ever thanks to COVID-19? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Have you seen a plush plague doctor? They’re everywhere now as COVID-19 toys go viral (The Walrus)
- Sony and Netflix have signed a big movie output deal (Variety)
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo took home the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Children’s Programming (YouTube)
- Instead of the “next big thing,” maybe what we need is to spend some time unbundling all of the everyday things (WIRED)
- YouTube is admitting that roughly 1.6 million of every billion videos violate its content policies (Reuters)
- Not only are WarnerMedia’s movies returning to the big screen, they’re moving back to typical windowing strategies (Recode)
- Film and TV is an author’s market right now—the pandemic has given them more leverage than ever before (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Twitter is reportedly looking to acquire Clubhouse (Tech Crunch)
- California plans to fully reopen its economy in June, with plenty of filming scheduled (Variety)
- E3 will be virtual this year, and Nintendo and Xbox still plan to be there (Washington Post)
- …But what are the benchmarks for returning to full filming and live event attendance, and when can we resume regular life? (The Verge)
- A new documentary about how Sesame Street was made will brighten your day (Entertainment Weekly)
- Roku is rolling out a new sponsored discoverability tool to showcase programming (Digiday)
- Clubhouse partners with Stripe to help its influencers monetize (Business Insider)
- Why is there such a booming black market for LEGO bricks? (CBC News)
- Non-fungible tokens were created to protect artists…but that’s not how things worked out (The Atlantic)
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