- Simplicity at its best? Amazon’s high-tech convenience store is finally here (Recode)
- How podcasts are affecting childhood development (Business Insider)
- Study shows female characters are taking a back seat in children’s books (The Guardian)
- Six months later, a look inside Nickelodeon’s high-tech R&D lab (Variety)
- PlayStation unveils Amiibo-like figures, but without near field communication functionality (PCMag)
- How Sesame Street has evolved since joining HBO (The New Yorker)
- Snap’s branded content team takes a hit with new layoffs (The Verge)
- Why CBS and Viacom are considering a merger (Recode)
- Oculus Story Studio vets launch Fable Studio and launch VR mini-series Wolves in the Walls at Sundance (UploadVR)
- Four Disney-managed YouTube stars struck a deal with Twitch to create live and on-demand content (Variety)
- Sony Pictures admits it is at a grow-or-sell crossroads (Variety)
- How people are using Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hulu in very different ways (Quartz)
- This is how parents of tween and teen social media stars handle their kids’ overnight fame (The Atlantic)
- Facebook is all about co-viewing now (Recode)
- A refreshingly real look at how Ellen Pompeo became TV’s US$20-million star (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube’s newest plan to keep content clean involves removing thousands of creators from its ad program (Recode)
- Children and their Cheetos: New study says increased TV-watching among kids may lead to more junk food intake (MarketWatch)
- In a bid to get more people into theaters, T-mobile is offering US$4 tickets to 20th Century Fox movies (Variety)
- Facebook Messenger says the app is too cluttered (The Verge)
- Why some modern parents are living a life of “toy limitation” (Slate)
- Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on commercial cinemas and is kicking things off with two kids flicks (The Verge)
- Change is in the air: 70% of upcoming YouTube Red episodes are set to be directed by women (Tube Filter)
- Robots are better at reading than humans, according to a new Stanford University study (CNN)
- More than 590 million people used Instagram daily in 2017, and that number is set to grow this year (eMarketer)
- How Aardman’s Pantosaurus mobile game is raising sexual abuse awareness among kids (Games Industry)
- How the war between Bratz and Barbie reveals the inner workings of the toy industry (The New Yorker)
- Is there a place in the kids TV market for cryptocurrency? This new tech startup is banking on it (Boston Globe)
- Experts say voice assistants could ultimately be better than smartphones (CNBC)
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey leave Disney’s board, citing conflict of interest issues (Fortune)
- The trouble bubble keeps on bursting: YouTube takes down Pop Blast, a popular channel targeting kids with disturbing content (Polygon)
- Walmart will close 60-plus Sam’s Club stores as the retailer bolsters its e-commerce strategy (AdWeek)
- This is what happens when parents actually say yes to the things children want (CNN)
- Facebook’s Messenger Kids is heading to Amazon Fire tablets (The Verge)
- Coco scoops up another win at the Critics Choice Awards (Variety)
- YouTube halts Logan Paul projects after controversial suicide video post (Polygon)
- Playthings that “stretch” the imagination will be tops in the toy world this year (Newsday)
- The UK SVOD landscape sees Netflix far ahead of Amazon (Quartz)
- From retail space to the living room, these 10 marketing trends will shape 2018 (CMO)
- Former Netflix kids director Andy Yeatman gets candid about the events that led to his dismissal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Growth spurt: Hulu had more than 17 million subscribers by the end of 2017 (Quartz)
- Mind the gap? How UK children’s TV has evolved from shows like Blue Peter to YouTube vlogs (The Guardian)
- A massive data dump gives a glimpse into Snapchat’s usage patterns, and it’s not all rosy (TechCrunch)
- Apple will debut new features in order to help parents better control kids’ phone usage (Bloomberg)
- New Disney study quantifies higher ratings to ROI (Digital TV Europe)
- How Nova Scotia’s REDspace has grown its business with a leg up from Nickelodeon (The Globe and Mail)
- Does VR’s future hinge on mass hardware adoption or compelling content? (AdWeek)
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