- Roku has recruited the former Funny or Die content team for its new ad studio (Variety)
- HBO Max won’t launch in UK, Italy or Germany until 2025 because of an existing deal with Sky (Financial Times)
- Does anyone have US$3 billion? ViacomCBS is looking to raise some serious cash for its content push (Digital TV Europe)
- A look inside Ryan Kaji’s YouTube empire (Bloomberg)
- Netflix’s The Sleepover won the only children’s prize at the Writer’s Guild Awards (News Break)
- Films are an anthropological tool that helps preserve global diversity (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Roku has acquired This Old House Venture’s 1,500-episode library (Variety)
- Inside Globo’s push for Brazilian kids content (TBI Vision)
- In entertainment, newbies have to pay their dues…but how do you do that in a pandemic? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- According to internal documents, Facebook is building an Instagram for under-13s (BuzzFeed News)
- A lot of parents have parked their guilt over screen time (Glamour)
- Keeping it classy: Next month’s Oscars ceremony won’t have any Zoom calls or jeans (Variety)
- …And the inside story of how Cartoon Saloon made its Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers (Medium)
- What role does Hollywood play in violence against Asian Americans? (Variety)
- The BBC is moving nearly US$1 billion of its production spend out of London to widen its “narrow urban outlook” (Deadline)
- Bowing to industry pressure, the Cannes Film Festival will hold an online market before its live event (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Play might be the most important thing kids are missing right now (The Washington Post)
- Everybody Hates Chris is getting an animated reboot (TVLine)
- Canadian companies are building a video game to help kids with neurodevelopmental disabilities (Global News)
- BAFTA and the BFI are teaming up to combat bullying in the industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- AMC Networks is launching a “high-octane” master class for women on directing action in TV (Deadline)
- Several hard-to-find Star Wars TV spinoffs will launch on Disney+ in April (Variety)
- The company behind Bob’s Burgers is forming a new animation studio to tell Australian stories (Variety)
- Idris Elba is turning a page with a range of kids books (Good Housekeeping)
- Chinese conglom Alibaba could shed some of its assets under regulatory pressure (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Tubi is moving into original content and reportedly has some big money to offer (TBI Vision)
- Following its re-release in China, Avatar is now the highest-grossing film of all time (Deadline)
- Kids content from Disney and Netflix squares off in this year’s Oscar race (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, Disney is poised to dominate the streaming space by 2024 (The Guardian)
- Dungeons & Dragons had its biggest year ever when it moved the IP online (CNBC News)
- COVID-19 might not be all that bad for kids, but the pandemic is certainly weighing on their mental health (CBC News)
- RTL’s push into streaming seems to be going well so far (Digital TV Europe)
- Netflix looks to crack down on password-sharing, but will that increase subs or piss people off? (The Guardian)
- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reportedly found someone to lead their prodco (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Longer Read: Do private schools still make sense in today’s world? (The Atlantic)
- If you’re missing casual encounters in your remote-work life, try 2D audio co-presence (WIRED)
- Want to be in the know about non-fungible tokens? Here’s a quick primer (Digiday)
- Netflix is all about collective moments, and Disney is into lifetime brands—which is worth more? (Bloomberg)
- China’s using a surge pricing model for movie tickets, but will it stick? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney+ has surpassed the 100-million subscriber mark way ahead of schedule (The Verge)
- As Roblox goes public, it’s worth looking at how it grew into a US$30-billion platform (CNBC)
- Tubi’s ad revenue could start topping its competitors, especially as it plans originals (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok is taking on bullying with new commenting features (Tech Crunch)
March 23, 2021
March 22, 2021
March 19, 2021
March 18, 2021
March 17, 2021
March 16, 2021
March 15, 2021
March 12, 2021
March 11, 2021
March 10, 2021
Newsletter
