- Netflix says its next 100 million subscribers will come from India (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Now that Black Panther has slayed the box office, can it do the same in the toy aisle? (Variety)
- Minor confusion? An 11-year-old has written a children’s guide to bitcoin (CNBC)
- Why gross-out toys are making a big splash this year (Gizmodo)
- Pop-up cameras could be the next big mobile trend (Tech Crunch)
- Black Panther has helped Disney make US$1 billion so far in 2018 (Forbes)
- When it comes to getting homework done, kids say YouTube is their biggest distraction (The Telegraph)
- Toys “R” Us may need to close another 200 stores (The New York Times)
- Child rights org Plan International’s new text app aims to reverse gendered language (Springwise)
- Those Angry Birds were flying a little low yesterday, with Rovio shares dropping nearly 50% (Reuters)
- Even with the success of Wonder Woman, female characters in top-grossing movies dropped in 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Mind the gap: Amazon is now worth more than 2.5 Walmarts (Recode)
- Facebook may have closed its Oculus studio, but the social media giant’s hardware chief says big AR/VR news is coming soon (Bloomberg)
- Let’s take a closer look at what it actually means for something to be “trending” (New York Magazine)
- Nintendo, LEGO, Marvel and more: Take a look at the world’s most innovative companies (Fast Company)
- How the massive success of Black Panther could change Hollywood (Vulture)
- Netflix has quietly dropped thousands of licensed movies from its library (Business Insider)
- Ed tech startup Kidaptive raises US$19 million (TechCrunch)
- How the incredibly popular Minions characters were created (Vanity Fair)
- 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)
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