- 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)
- Coco comes out on top at the 2018 Golden Globes (The Verge)
- A pair of Apple shareholders wants the tech company to research the impact of smartphones on kids (TechCrunch)
- Speaking volumes: Why cartoon villains are sending a message with their foreign accents (The Atlantic)
- Another year, another children’s toothbrush with a gaming twist (CNET)
- New AR learning app from Ustwo helps kids get through hospital visits (Springwise)
- The Last Jedi’s box office success means the Star Wars franchise has officially surpassed Harry Potter (NME)
- Roku’s CEO on how the Disney-Fox merger will affect streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- US kids are raking it in, earning an average of US$454 in allowance per year (CNBC)
- Famous YouTuber Jake Paul launches online courses to teach youngsters how to be “social media famous” (Tube Filter)
- PAW Patrol, Daniel Tiger among Amazon’s most popular rented or purchased series (Digital TV Europe)
- SVOD users are willing to shell out more bucks for content, but they don’t want to see any ads (eMarketer)
- There were only eight female directors behind the top 100 movies in 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Inside the mind of the man playing SpongeBob on Broadway (Vulture)
- AR glasses may be the next big thing, but who will succeed in the space? (WIRED)
- The world’s most popular YouTubers are seeing stunted growth (Business Insider)
- Live and well? As movie ticket sales show modest gains, the Broadway box office is soaring (The Hollywood Reporter)
- An Australian principal convinced 600 kids to give up their phones at night (Australian Financial Review)
- Nintendo’s president wants to sell 20 million more Switch consoles by next April (PC Mag)
- Is Amazon trying to compete with YouTube? The tech giant applies for trademark on “AmazonTube” (Tube Filter)
- Mattel CEO says the toyco needs to take smart risks (Fortune)
- It may seem like kids are all over the web, but 350 million of them worldwide are still not online at all (London School of Economics)
- Walmart is developing a personal shopping service for moms (Recode)
- A new app wants to teach parents how to talk to their kids (Tech Crunch)
- The Last Jedi toys aren’t living up to the film’s hype (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Intelligence fail? Highly motivated kids have more advantages than their smarter counterparts (Quartz)
- Netflix’s new film Bright is changing how movies market themselves (The Verge)
- Musical.ly is putting US$50 million into an account for its creators’ college funds (Tube Filter)
- With US$1.7 billion raised to date, Magic Leap will release its first AR headset in 2018 (Variety)
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