- Amazon’s Alexa is forever changing playtime (CNET)
- How social media has created this year’s biggest toy trends (Newsweek)
- Disney still the world’s most valuable media brand (Rapid TV News)
- Hasbro is testing out crowdfunding with a huge four-foot-long Star Wars toy (Gizmodo)
- Experts say kids aren’t addicted to their phones, they just have major FOMO (CNBC)
- They’ll have fewer fries with that: McDonald’s is making its Happy Meals healthier for kids (Advertising Age)
- Voice, cameras and more facial reactions: How emerging tech is breathing new life into the mobile space (CMO)
- Why Alibaba and Tencent shelled out big bucks to save their longtime rival The Dalian Wanda Group (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How NBC is effectively courting a younger generation of viewers for the Winter Olympics (Los Angeles Times)
- A new two-part BBC documentary explores whether kids can be gender-free (Stuff.co.nz)
- Sony has made a 300-piece coding kit to create block robots (The Verge)
- New creative heights: LEGO and a Canadian university have teamed up to test out new brick-inspired drones (CNET)
- Smooth sailing ahead? Disney says it’s not trying to hurt or kill Netflix with its upcoming streamer (Polygon)
- Chinese tech giant Baidu confirms it is bringing its streamer iQIYI to the US (Variety)
- From Uno to Dos: Mattel doubles down on its popular card game (CNBC)
- A new Nanoblock smartwatch for kids was just released, but is its timing off? (The Verge)
- While Netflix is pulling viewers away from the boob tube, it’s also boosting the ratings of certain linear shows it streams (AdWeek)
- Amazon is reportedly creating an AI chip for Alexa that will make the device faster and smarter (The Verge)
- Why Unilever, the world’s second-largest advertiser, is threatening to pull ads from Facebook and Google (Quartz)
- What this new Iron Man mask potentially reveals about the future of toys (Gizmodo)
- YouTube’s CEO says Logan Paul won’t be kicked off the platform…but he only has one more chance (Variety)
- Meanwhile, this is how brands can effectively succeed at influencer marketing (AdWeek)
- Former NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke lands the top job at Amazon Studios (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Something to watch: The European SVOD market is expected to double by 2022 (Broadband TV News)
- Facebook is fading among Gen Z, with less than half of US tweens and teens using the platform monthly (eMarketer)
- Only one third of US kids read at their grade level, so who (or what) is to blame? (NPR)
- Hulu saw major fiscal 2017 losses, despite a US$1-billion investment from its parent companies last year (Fast Company)
- Self-promotion at a whole new level: Snapchat is letting users create their own personalized lenses and filters (Business Insider)
- They’re (sorta) alive! Disney parks are slowly becoming populated with personality-driven robots (TechCrunch)
- YouTube temporarily suspends all of Logan Paul’s ad revenue, which could cost the star up to a million dollars per month (The Verge)
- Viacom shutters its VR studio (Variety)
- How kids app brands will have to rely on zero-data solutions to comply with the EU’s upcoming legislation (alistdaily)
- Snapchat has set up a new live-streaming feature for its publishing partners (Recode)
- Star Wars gets more inclusive with each movie, so why do those behind the camera still look the same? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Twitter makes its first quarterly profit in the company’s history (The Guardian)
- The power of online viewing has led Sony to shake up its TV and home entertainment businesses (Bloomberg)
- Well beyond TV: Viacom has officially acquired online video conference VidCon (Variety)
- Snap beat all expectations in Q4, adding 8.9 million daily users in the period (Recode)
- Remote controller: This popular gaming console will now let parents dictate how long their kid can use it (TechCrunch)
- Walmart’s next frontier comes with the acquisition of VR startup Spatialand (Recode)
- Praise pays off: Scientists say there’s a pathway in kids’ brains that links a positive attitude with achievement (CNBC)
- This parent explains why Facebook’s Messenger Kids is in her family’s future (TechCrunch)
- HoneyComb Kits enters the interactive toy space (Springwise)
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