- Star Wars actress Kelly Marie Tran speaks out against online harassment (NY Times)
- Netflix is testing a method to bypass iTunes billing (TechCrunch)
- …Even though Millennials and Gen Z would rather share passwords than pay (Tubefilter)
- Giphy is launching a film festival for 18-second movies (Fast Company)
- Playtime is literally what the doctor ordered, thanks to the American Academy of Pediatrics (NY Times)
- Google’s fake pizza brand yielded real advertising strategies for YouTube (TechCrunch)
- Ad-free viewing is going the way of the dodo for Twitch Prime users (The Verge)
- China leapfrogs the UK to become the second-biggest spender on TV (Fast Company)
- Big news for binge-watchers: Netflix is testing ads for its original content (Fortune)
- Viacom plans to cut its recently acquired Awesomeness staff in half (Variety)
- An American university is installing thousands of Echo Dots in student living spaces (TechCrunch)
- Girl-focused coming-of-age stories are so hot this summer (Hollywood Reporter)
- Grab the popcorn: Amazon could be acquiring a chain of movie theaters (Tech Crunch)
- Hasbro and DC Comics have settled their battle of the Bumblebees (Variety)
- Microsoft’s AI bot Zo is bringing typical teenage sass to podcasts (Fast Company)
- Forget the science fair, Fortnite could land university scholarships for students (CNBC)
- Despite the decades-long fight to protect children’s data, COPPA can’t keep up (Select All)
- The different models Netflix is using to buy content (CNBC)
- Disney says the key to getting more butts in Broadway seats is actually social media (Fast Company)
- Study: Children are more likely than adults to give in to robots’ demands (Science Mag)
- The British government is leaning into apps to up its child literacy rates (WIRED)
- Tencent rakes in US$6 billion in profit, but games slowdown hurts its revenue (Variety)
- How the creator of We Bare Bears keeps innovating his storytelling (Los Angeles Times)
- Why YouTube vloggers are this generation’s Oprah Winfrey (Financial Times)
- HQ trivia is trying to reach its previous viral heights by launching on Apple TV (TechCrunch)
- We’ve come full circle: How SVODs are starting to look a lot like traditional cable TV (The Verge)
- Messenger Kids is removing some privacy features and letting kids initiate their own friend requests (TechCrunch)
- India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting says it has no intentions of implementing regulations on kids TV (Advanced Television)
- YouTube is paying its own stars thousands of dollars to promote new features (TubeFilter)
- Why is it so difficult to raise a gender-neutral kid? (Vogue)
- This back-to-school season, brands are marketing to kids directly on their phones (Washington Post)
- Hulu has been losing close to US$1.5 billion a year; Can Disney turn that around? (CNBC)
- All structure and no play? New study finds even with lots of planned activities, kids still fit in lots of free play (Globe and Mail)
- Despite all of the kid-specific content, Alexa is still having a hard time understanding children (Quartz)
- Will Nickelodeon’s strategy to double down on reboots pay off? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube is about to overtake Facebook as number-two in US website usage (TubeFilter)
- LOL or LMAO? How people laugh online around the world (Digg)
- Fortnite is finally available on Android, but it bypassing the Google Play store could be a problem (The Guardian)
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