- YouTube is trying a new way of rewarding creators, focused on quality rather than clickability (Bloomberg)
- Meanwhile, the top-10 kids YouTube creators are incredibly secretive, which critics say causes problems for the AVOD (Wall Street Journal)
- So much for privacy…Amazon reportedly employs thousands of people to listen in on Alexa recordings (CNN)
- Disney+ raises the stakes of the streaming game (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What actually killed cable TV, and is there any hope left for it? (Variety)
- Perhaps it’s the 30 million Americans who never paid for TV in the first place (Broadband TV News)
- Google Play is in hot water again for hosting inappropriate games with kid-friendly ratings (Games Industry)
- Netflix is launching its own magazine to up its awards fight (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hilda and Steven Universe both nabbed Peabody nominations (Deadline)
- SVODs may greenlight a lot of originals, but most don’t make it past a second season (Rapid TV News)
- Top music labels are now coming for TikTok, and they plan to collect (Fast Company)
- A number of new apps are popping up offering parents the ability to spy on their kids at school (The Outline)
- Bad news: 14% of Netflix users don’t pay for the service. Good news: Kids content drives people to pay for it (Recode)
- Forget subscribers, the next streaming war is all about ad-supported content (Digiday)
- Why are prodcos turning to Amazon Prime to self-distribute content even after the service cut back on potential revenues? (The Drum)
- How Turner Classic Films built a big brand by serving a niche audience (Variety)
- TikTok is in hot water again: A BBC investigation found that the app failed to remove online predators (BBC News)
- Apple Music has passed Spotify in US music subscriptions, and now the techco thinks it can replicate that success in other areas (Recode)
- To combat its long-standing problem of other apps copying its technology, Snapchat is starting to share (Tech Crunch)
- Amazon is reportedly developing Alexa-enabled earbuds to compete with Apple, but will it succeed? (AdWeek)
- Believe it or not, Netflix’s DVD rentals are still going strong—it brought in US$212 million last year (Tubefilter)
- Snapchat is changing the conversation with AR, new games and more commissioned content (Los Angeles Times)
- Six takeaways from CinemaCon: It’s all about Disney, Netflix and diversity (Variety)
- LatAm’s SVOD subscriptions are growing fast, and unsurprisingly, Netflix is leading the pack (Digital TV Europe)
- YouTube was built on the work of independent creators, so why is the platform abandoning them? (The Verge)
- Writers continue to struggle with salaries in the agency battle, but showrunners’ salaries are soaring (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Trying too hard will never be cool: New research shows Gen Z doesn’t like it when brands chase trends online (PR Week)
- Instagram’s IGTV is floundering, so the app is offering social stars big bucks to back the platform (The Verge)
- Trying to remember what companies own what? A flow chart can help with that (Recode)
- Following Equal Pay Day, a new lawsuit alleges Disney doesn’t pay women equitably (New York Times)
- YouTube staff say execs ignored warning signs about growing extremist content (Bloomberg)
- The Justice Department warns the Academy not to kick out Netflix (Variety)
- Tencent and Alibaba still dominate in China, but smaller players are finding a way in (eMarketer)
- WGA readies a tech solution to help writers get jobs if a deal isn’t reached in talent agency dispute (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Brands are seeing the potential of advertising on Twitch gaming streams (AdWeek)
- It might be time to stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up (New York Times)
- Both The LEGO Movie and Scarface have violence, but the way kids react to each is totally different (The Huffington Post)
- Dumbo fails to meet box-office expectations—perhaps the shine of Disney’s remakes is wearing off? (New York Times)
- Discovery and BBC team up for a non-fiction SVOD (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Netflix is taking over children’s screen time with its modest animation studio (Fast Company)
- Are you more likely to trust a robot if it has a body? Alexa’s chief scientist thinks so (Digital Trends)
- Mark Zuckerberg asks for new internet regulation (Washington Post)
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