- Pay-TV subscriptions have passed the one-billion mark (Digital TV Europe)
- The new Apple Arcade has people questioning how much a game is actually worth (WIRED)
- YouTube is backing off its creator verification changes (Tubefilter)
- How TikTok has been able to capture and hold the attention spans of today’s kids (The New Yorker)
- Can the man behind K-Pop sensation BTS change music with an app? He’s certainly trying (Fast Company)
- After just two years, NBCUniversal shuts down its game publishing arm (Games Industry Biz)
- Netflix’s first CEO Marc Randolph on why the SVOD will win the streaming wars (Fast Company)
- Ofcom dismisses concerns that the BBC’s involvement with Britbox gives the pubcaster an unfair advantage (Rapid TV News)
- As YouTube readies policy changes, creators are already suffering (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As DirecTV’s subscribers drop, AT&T weighs sales options (Wall Street Journal)
- Why Apple’s launch into gaming subscription services is a “turning point in history” (The Hollywood Reporter)
- And as Bob Iger leaves the Apple board, he reflects on its relationship with Disney (Vanity Fair)
- Burger King is getting rid of its plastic toys as consumers call for fast food chains to eliminate waste (CNN)
- With 61 titles in production, Disney+ is leading in originals among US SVODs launching soon (Rapid TV News)
- Unscripted TV producers take a hit, facing overwork and decreasing wages (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Comic book publisher Valiant plans to take on Marvel and DC with a few lesser-known heroes (Business Insider)
- A deep dive into 12 safe spaces online for kids (Mashable)
- Sony rejected Dan Loeb’s proposal to break up the company and divest its image-sensors business (Variety)
- In the wake of MoviePass’s shut down, a takeover bid has emerged (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Snapchat launches a 3D camera mode, as competition against Instagram heats up (TechCrunch)
- New bedfellows: Canal+ and Netflix pair up for a bundling option (Reuters)
- UK public broadcasters could have a chance to attract more viewers as streamers disrupt the market again (Digital TV Europe)
- Sesame Workshop wins a Creative Arts Emmy for its When You Wish Upon a Pickle special (Deadline)
- Theater subscription service MoviePass has shut down (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Minecraft quietly grew its audience to 112 million monthly players (Engadget)
- Vudu has launched a feature that will automatically skip inappropriate scenes for young viewers (The Verge)
- How Build-A-Bear is trying to survive the retail apocalypse (Cheddar)
- Inside ViacomCBS’s plans to create a “virtuous ecosystem” for content, starting with Star Trek (Variety)
- We already know that seeing smoking and suicide on screen can harm kids, but what about sexual assault? (The New York Times)
- Why WarnerMedia was able to best its rivals and lock in J.J. Abrams (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is reportedly letting toys go on sale without proof of safety documents (CNET)
- Apple TV+ appears to be focusing on quality over quantity (The Verge)
- Instagram is at it again, baking in a new feature that appears to copy TikTok (Business Insider)
- Now that Chinese film Nezha grossed US$675 million, people are asking was it a fluke or the future of Chinese cinema? (Variety)
- Disney+ has scrapped a Muppets comedy series that was in the works (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, Disney is reportedly planning to sell Fox’s game division (Bloomberg)
- Could the next big player in voice assistants be McDonald’s? The fast food chain thinks so (WIRED)
- The Green Army Men are finally getting women in the ranks, thanks to a little girl’s handwritten letter (NPR)
- They talk the talk, but is Hollywood really doing enough to fight climate change? (Variety)
- Walmart is set to lose US$1 billion competing with Amazon this year…which doesn’t seem to be a problem (Recode)
- An à-la-carte SVOD world is getting pricey for consumers, which could lead to an increase in subscription hopping (Wall Street Journal)
- A fun question for today: What movie is the biggest box-office bomb ever? (The Hollywood Reporter)
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