- WarnerMedia plans to launch its entire 2021 movie slate in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously (Variety)
- …And the media giant is set to launch its SVOD in Europe and LatAm next year (TBI Vision)
- Layoffs are underway at Walt Disney TV Group after a restructure to focus on streaming (Deadline)
- …On top of all that, Radio Disney is shuttering after two decades in operation (Los Angeles Times)
- Industry dream job shifts from running a channel to running a streaming studio (Variety)
- …Speaking of which, Discovery is planning to roll out its new streamer in January (Deadline)
- New research shows just how badly kids are being affected by COVID (CNN)
- Is TV teaching kids the wrong things about pain? (Science Daily)
- Netflix has changed its mind and is no longer renewing its first African original for another season (TBI Vision)
- …At the same time, the SVOD plans to double its spending in Asia (BNN Bloomberg)
- Disney is closing Touchstone TV and migrating its execs elsewhere (Deadline)
- Guess what dominated Apple’s most downloaded apps in 2020? Zoom and Among Us, of course (The Verge)
- Without a middle class, department stores would have died anyways, but Amazon and the pandemic gave them a push (Recode)
- Quibi is officially dead…will we even remember it? (Variety)
- The impact of this year on business travel isn’t temporary—36% of work trips could be gone forever (Wall Street Journal)
- A psychologist has been using music to help kids cope with stress (CNN)
- Croods 2 surpassed box office expectations in the US…but it wasn’t a big weekend (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bowing to pressure, Netflix will begin declaring its revenues in the UK (TBI Vision)
- …Meanwhile, the UK government will let small shops stay open 24/7 to make up for the lockdown (Evening Standard)
- The Mandalorian, the Avengers and Stranger Things are the top entertainment franchises (Variety)
- Alibaba and Tencent are looking at buying iQIYI, but costs and regulations are giving them pause (Digital TV Europe)
- England lays out its cinema re-opening strategy (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, a “winner takes all” techco mentality has motivated the UK to regulate competition (Tech Crunch)
- Without features like follower counts and comments, Snapchat’s TikTok competitor won’t get far (AdWeek)
- Disney ups its anticipated layoffs to 32,000 in the first half of 2021 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Ryan’s World landed the first YouTuber float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade (Adweek)
- What did TikTok do right and wrong? Here’s a timeline (Tech Crunch)
- As their importance grows, toy drives are having trouble adapting to the pandemic (Marketplace)
- Which big names have made a splash in the G-rated space this year? (Variety)
- Kidcos are teaching streamers to adopt a non-exclusive approach to content (Financial Times)
- Netflix spent a record-breaking US$1 billion on production in the UK this year (TBI Vision)
- ViacomCBS is selling its Simon & Schuster publishing unit to the owner of Penguin Random House (Variety)
- Amazon is trying new ways to fight counterfeiters by helping businesses trademark their IPs (Tech Crunch)
- Disney+ will exclusively premiere Taylor Swift’s new concert film (Toronto Star)
- Arts organizations are transforming into media companies to weather the pandemic (Variety)
- Growing kidtech company Kahoot is acquiring language-learning startup Drops (Tech Crunch)
- A number of major UK distributors are teaming up to launch a virtual screening event (Deadline)
- How My Little Pony reached across the toy aisle and broke all of the gendered CP rules (Polygon)
- Cineworld locks down US$750 million in extra liquidity to help weather the pandemic (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix has racked up 35 nominations at the Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards, with quite a few going to its kids content (Deadline)
- Snapchat will dish out more than US$1 million to creators daily in its bid to take on TikTok (Variety)
- Baby Yoda could be coming to a room near you, as Google launches a Mandalorian AR app (Engadget)
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