- Spider-Verse snagged seven wins at the Annie Awards, but it was Netflix’s Hilda that won big on the small screen (IndieWire)
- How to Train Your Dragon 3 flies to the top of the international box office ahead of North American premiere (Variety)
- Turns out Netflix’s dominance can still be challenged, as viewership drops 32% during the Super Bowl (Mashable)
- How exactly did Sesame Street manage to charm the whole world for so long? (BBC News)
- Why it’s important to let kids be bored (New York Times)
- Amazon’s sales and profits have topped estimates—driven largely by retail (Bloomberg)
- In some positive news, the number of harmful ads kids are seeing has declined (The Drum)
- In the year of streaming wars, battles are already heating up (Wall Street Journal)
- 32% of Gen Z would avoid websites that don’t anticipate what they want, ushering in an era of predictive entertainment (Information Age)
- Evidence that marketing kids movies these days is tough? The Kid Who Would Be King’s potential US$50-million loss (Variety)
- Facebook had kids install a VPN on their phones for US$20 so it could track them (Tech Crunch)
- Then Apple retaliated by removing the social media platform’s “employee-only” apps (The Guardian)
- Another streamer bites the dust—Ultraviolet has announced it will shut down in July (The Verge)
- Baby Shark surpasses five billion views and becomes the number one YouTube Education trend of all time (Tube Filter)
- Apple’s revenue is down 15% for Q1, and it’s not disclosing how many iPhones it sold (Recode)
- Why Disney continues to explore VR despite the medium’s uncertain future (CNET)
- Alibaba had 33% growth this quarter, even though its entertainment sector lost US$890 million (Variety)
- If you aren’t already, it’s time to start paying serious attention to TikTok (Tech Crunch)
- How Toys “R” Us could rebuild itself—using nostalgia (Digiday)
- Behind the curtain on Disney’s new streaming venture (Variety)
- A new study shows consumers are willing to pay $10 to $16 max for ad-free streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Remember last week, when we wondered who would be the Netflix of gaming? Well, maybe Apple… (Cheddar)
- Rumor has it Google is looking into how to scan your voice and face with its Assistant (Tech Radar)
- How Karina Garcia managed to become the reigning Slime Queen on YouTube (Forbes)
- Pokémon confidence: Legendary is already developing a sequel to its upcoming Detective Pikachu movie (CNET)
- YouTube rolled out new “prank” policies in response to the Bird Box challenge, but do they go far enough? (Medium)
- This year is going to be defined by conversations about child safety, say video game analysts (Variety)
- The trendy new food that every kid needs in their diet is play (BBC News)
- Court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were spending parents money and didn’t stop it (Engadget)
- As Netflix tries to become more Hollywood, other studios are annoyed about its secrecy (LA Times)
- What’s next after Baby Shark? Maybe Baby Penguins, do-do-do-do-do-do (Bloomberg)
- Scammers are impersonating top YouTubers on the platform and messaging fans (The Verge)
- How Fox’s Kuala Lumpur theme park became a melting Ice Age disaster (Variety)
- Bad news: Hulu is upping the price of its live TV, but basic subscriptions are going down (Vulture)
- Mattel named her a “role model” and now she’s challenging the toyco to make more inclusive dolls (CBC News)
- Worried that cellphones have become a bit dull? Well, they’re about to get really weird (WIRED)
- YouTube TV is now available in 98% of US homes (The Verge)
- Netflix has become the first streaming company to join the Motion Picture Association of America (Variety)
- Viacom acquires AVOD Pluto TV for US$340 million to pursue “alternative” direct-to-consumer offerings (Engadget)
- China is expected to surpass the US in total retail sales this year (eMarketer)
- Google was fined US$57 million for breaking GDPR laws (New York Times)
- The 10 biggest influencers under 10, featuring lots of twins (Ad Age)
- Two Disney flicks, one from Japan, a Wes Anderson film and a superhero pic—these are the Animated Oscar nominees (Deadline)
- Inside the race to become the first successful SVOD service for video games (Engadget)
- Once a powerhouse, film studio Paramount has accumulated US$900 million in losses over the last two years (New York Times)
- How Netflix is capitalizing on FOMO to draw in viewers (Business Insider)
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