- Apple wants to limit data sharing on kids app…but it’s negatively affecting companies like PBS (Recode)
- MGA’s latest merger offer to Mattel was rejected, and now the CEO is considering going hostile (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is updating its Echo Kids Dot Edition with a new look and a few tech improvements (The Verge)
- How Disney taught a generation of kids to love stage musicals (Variety)
- Fortnite isn’t just a game—it’s emerging as a new social platform for gen Z (Ad Age)
- YouTubers have been feeling like they can’t experiment on the AVOD…so they built a new platform (Tubefilter)
- At this year’s E3, gamecos are showing signs that the industry might not be able to play nice with pop culture (LA Times)
- As WarnerMedia preps its SVOD, the Wild West streaming frontier shows signs of ending (The Atlantic)
- How YouTube is trying to keep its kids app safe while maintaining the free-form elements that made it popular (Fast Company)
- Secret Life of Pets 2 claws its way to the top of the US box office (Variety)
- More than half of UK TV viewers have spent eight consecutive hours binge watching, according to a new study (Telegraph)
- Instagram has added a lyrics function to its app to compete with TikTok (CNET)
- More than 20% of US consumers are likely to sign up to Disney+, and Disney hasn’t even begun marketing it (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube’s problems could grow, as kids continue to be the site’s core audience (Wired)
- A Canadian prodco is using VR games and partnering with hospitals to help kids with autism (The Toronto Sun)
- Amazon is making Alexa more conversational and connecting it with more service providers (Variety)
- Fox and Disney are facing off against Netflix in a legal battle that could stop executive poaching (The Hollywood Reporter)
- With J.J. Abrams’ contracts set to expire soon, WarnerMedia and Apple are vying to sign massive deals with him (Variety)
- YouTube has banned supremacist content and expects thousands of channels across the platform to be taken down (The Verge)
- Mattel and Hasbro are able to grow during the retail apocalypse by turning IPs into movies and TV shows (CNN)
- Disney is getting serious about shorts with a new incubator program for directors (LA Times)
- China’s film market is set to eclipse the US in 2020, but how will that affect movies? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Apple is backing off its crackdown on parental control apps (New York Times)
- …Yet 55% of parents are at risk of endangering their kids online, according to a new study (Economic Times)
- iTunes is dead, long live iTunes! Apple is shutting down the long-running music service (Vox)
- …And it’s adding more safety features to phones, including restricting third-party trackers on kids apps (Tech Crunch)
- YouTube is making its own privacy moves, banning kids from livestreaming unless accompanied by an adult (Variety)
- Global SVOD subscriptions are about to hit one billion, and set to increase 86% by 2024 (Digital TV Europe)
- Mattel is teaming up with Blumhouse to make a Magic 8 Ball…horror movie? (Deadline)
- Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are reportedly building a TV and film prodco (The Guardian)
- Discovery is launching a cross-channel video game studio (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Gather together the team: Netflix, the Russo brothers and Hasbro are working on a Magic: The Gathering TV series (The Verge)
- Why children actually learn better together (The Week)
- Jam City on how it carefully balances storytelling and selling with its licensed game apps (Games Industry)
- Chinese steamers Tencent, Youku and iQIYI have cracked the global SVOD top-five, challenging the US players (Rapid TV News)
- A new study finds TV shows and movies still lack characters with mental health issues (Huffington Post)
- As tech infiltrates toys more and more, should we stop fighting it and let kids become friends with bots? (Medium)
- Why CBS and Viacom are licensing shows to rivals, rather than launching their own streamers (Digiday)
- There is controversy in the ASMR space, as more kids are making videos designed to give people the “tingles” (The Atlantic)
- Peek behind the curtain of the Apple team that picks which apps make it to the iPhone and which end up getting cut (Bloomberg)
- …Speaking of apps, following a FTC complaint, Google has rolled out new policies for kids apps (Tech Crunch)
- Lagardère has closed the sale of M6, officially taking over its kids channels (Digital TV Europe)
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