- Games industry trade org UKIE finds only 19% of parents set and enforce screen time limits for their kids (Games Industry)
- eSports leagues are modeling themselves after sports franchises to give people a home team to root for (New York Times)
- Can it keep up? Hulu’s live TV service hits a million subscribers (USA Today)
- From YouTube to Doritos: Youth marketing firm Y-Pulse IDs Gen Z’s favorite brands (Business Insider)
- VR platform the VOID is adding new Disney and Marvel experiences (The Verge)
- Jeff Bezos is opening a network of preschools where he says the “child will be the customer” (The Hill)
- Little Baby Bum—one of the world’s biggest YouTube channels—has just been sold (Bloomberg)
- Target and Walmart are reaping the rewards of TRU’s demise, but surprisingly, so is Costco (CNBC)
- What Fortnite’s success can tell us about the gaming industry’s future (Time)
- Is the key to Amazon winning the SVOD content wars actually live TV? (Quartz)
- Why video games are such an underrated art form (1843 Magazine)
- How game apps are luring kid users and then collecting their data (New York Times)
- Always feel like somebody’s watching me—half of voice assistant owners don’t trust the devices (The Independent)
- Netflix is testing house ads during shows, but a new study reveals that this could drive away a quarter of subscribers (IndieWire)
- Squishies toys are being checked for unsafe chemical levels in Australia after being banned in Denmark (ABC News)
- DreamWorks Animation is among 15 honorees for the Advanced Imaging Society tech awards (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As YouTube algorithm problems rage on, would prioritizing library content over new stuff help? (TubeFilter)
- It’s not just toys that are getting unboxed this holiday season—Amazon is also making trees available on its site (Associated Press)
- BBC cuts back online services to tackle the Netflix and YouTube shift (Tech Radar)
- YouTube stardom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; many are suffering from burnout, loneliness and depression (The Guardian)
- Voice assistant market still growing—nearly one-third of US consumers now own a smart speaker (PC Mag)
- Why two-thirds of American kids aren’t at a proficient reading level (Forbes)
- A Sesame Street special took home the Best Children’s program prize at last night’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards (Variety)
- Is this the anxiety generation? Why products designed to calm people down (like fidget spinners) are taking off (Vox)
- Netflix is injecting major funding into Nigeria’s movie industry, known as “Nollywood” (Quartz)
- Don’t count Snapchat out just yet…it’s where most teens are spending their social media time (GeekWire)
- Even with a couple of domestic flops, Disney still managed to rule the summer box office (Forbes)
- Walmart launches an Uber-like delivery service to better compete with Amazon (The Verge)
- The popularity contest has ended: Why the Oscars shelved its new category (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How brands can be proactive against influencer fraud (TubeFilter)
- Instagram rolls out a new parent guide for keeping kids safe on social sites (Engadget)
- Turns out ad revenue isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—a lot of popular YouTubers aren’t making money (The Verge)
- Merriam-Webster has updated the dictionary to reflect the language of Gen Z (Fast Company)
- Is the prevalence of global SVODs making European countries more American? (WIRED)
- Instagram is reportedly in development on a standalone shopping app (The Verge)
- Incredibles 2 smashes another record to become Pixar’s highest-grossing film (Cinema Blend)
- Talk about a jolt—21st Century Fox invests US$100 million in live streaming platform Caffeine (Variety)
- Snap’s giving it another try and launching new styles of Spectacles that look more like traditional sunglasses (WIRED)
- Amazon’s planned ad-supported video service may actually rival traditional and streaming TV platforms (Ad Age)
- …And Facebook thinks it can top the streaming market by tapping into its social and sharing capabilities (CNBC)
- Don’t count brick-and-mortar retail out just yet; it’s coming back swinging (New York Times)
- Summer loving? China’s summer box office is up 16%, but Hollywood’s revenue is still down (The Hollywood Reporter)
- When a YouTuber hawks merch to a very young audience, is it crossing legal lines? (TubeFilter)
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