- With everyone still at home, is it a surprise that Roku had a great quarter? (Variety)
- Death in the theater: Disney has pulled several of its films slated for holiday releases (Reuters)
- ViacomCBS says its production is almost back to normal, and it is gaining subs for its streamers (The Hollywood Repoter)
- Want to reach kids? Video games actually might be the most effective marketing tool now (BNN Bloomberg)
- 50 showrunners in Hollywood on what the future of television should look like (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Cocomelon has taken over both YouTube and Netflix (The Guardian)
- Disney-owned ESPN is cutting 500 team members to free up money to start new ventures (Variety)
- Nintendo’s great year continues, with profits jumping 200% in the first half of fiscal (CNN Business)
- How 2020 has rocked the gentle world of kids TV, and forced it to adapt (LA Times)
- TikTok and Sony Music have reached a licensing deal…which appears to change nothing (The Verge)
- Gaming rules the entertainment industry across several metrics, so why aren’t investors paying attention? (Tech Crunch)
- Trevor Noah and Nickelodeon have named the finalists for the Kids of the Year award (Entertainment Tonight)
- How Moonbug is leading the accessible kids content market (Forbes)
- Why Disney’s streaming strategy poses a serious threat to already suffering movie theaters (Insider)
- Shopify’s partnership with TikTok could start a new chapter in the e-commerce business (Tubefilter)
- As Apple TV+ hits its one-year anniversary, here are six takeaways from its first year (TBI Vision)
- Sony is reportedly close to buying Crunchyroll for US$1 billion (The Verge)
- Inside Netflix’s recent executive reorg (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A Cartoon Springboard pitch ignited a discussion of what’s really appropriate for preschoolers (Variety)
- In news that will make you think you’ve gone back in time, Baby Shark is now the most viewed video on YouTube (The Guardian)
- Amazon isn’t immune to the pandemic and expects to incur US$4 billion in costs as a result of disruptions (TechCrunch)
- US studios and broadcasters are pushing for COVID-19 insurance, but will the government sign off? (Deadline)
- Facebook is still trying to be the future of video (Tubefilter)
- VR might look cool, but Playstation’s CEO says it will be a while before it gets really big (Engadget)
- Brave New World, a big component of Peacock’s initial original content push, has already been cancelled (Deadline)
- …But NBCU’s chief is celebrating the service hitting 22 million subscribers—even without the Olympics (CNN Business)
- Sorry movie theaters, audiences have learned to live without you (Bloomberg)
- Extra! Extra! NBC is creating a kids version of the Nightly News…will children tune in? (Variety)
- Is it nostalgia or just a desire for less screen time? Either way, families are flocking to classic toys (Washington Post)
- Sony Pictures’ Q2 profits dropped to US$300 million due to the pandemic’s impact on theater business (Variety)
- The hottest new job on set is the COVID-19 compliance supervisor (LA Times)
- Despite the wave of #MeToo attention, sexual harassment is still incredibly common in Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Joe Biden won Nickelodeon’s Kids Vote poll, despite bot interference (Deadline)
- Social media pressure, the pandemic, the climate crisis—it’s all taking a toll on kids (The Walrus)
- …And to cope, some parents are buying a lot more toys for them (Marketplace)
- Remote learning has created a hot new market for offices for kids (Marker)
- Google is cracking down on kids apps that violate data collection policies (Gizmodo)
- Japanese anime has become one of Netflix’s most bankable categories (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What’s the hot item that kidfluencers are hawking right now? Junk food, apparently (The New York Times)
- Without school and the free meals that often come with it, a lot of UK kids are going hungry (CTV News)
- Italy is shutting down its cinemas again as Europe lives through a second COVID-19 wave (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Children’s resilience during earlier pandemics provides a blueprint of how the current pandemic could affect them (CBC News)
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