- Mattel’s new CEO is named one of the most powerful women in business, but can her tech ideas save the toy industry? (Fortune)
- Microsoft launches new educational software with a little help from Minecraft (The Verge)
- Are kids over the LEGO movies? Ninjago flops at the box office (Forbes)
- Facebook announces its first wave of original content that includes a series from family vloggers (Tube Filter)
- Amazon is taking a step back and letting Alibaba continue to rule China (Recode)
- Is the coding trend really just a lesson in economics? (The Guardian)
- Disney and Intel both have eyes on Stockholm’s social robot maker (Forbes)
- Why Mattel and Hasbro won’t allow Toys “R” Us to flounder (Bloomberg)
- YouTube is revamping its subscription analytics to better serve creators (Tube Filter)
- Talk about a comeback: Inside Teddy Ruxpin’s life, death and plans for a revival (CNET)
- Nielsen has come up with a new way for advertisers to know what people are watching (Variety)
- Finally some good news for retailers – holiday sales projections are looking positive (eMarketer)
- And overall physical retail is still going strong (Harvard Business Review)
- A new study finds that gender roles forced on kids can affect their physical and mental health (CNN)
- Competition may have played a role, but its heavy debt load is what took down Toys “R” Us (Morning Star)
- Continuity is key: Locksmith Animation will be making a new animated movie every 18 months for 20th Century Fox (Variety)
- Amazon is jumping into wearables and working on Alexa-powered glasses (Reuters)
- YouTube is taking on Twitch, launching moneymaking sponsorships for gaming creators (Tube Filter)
- The inherent challenges to selling toys in a digital world (eMarketer)
- Study says Gen Z is in no rush to grow up (Business Insider)
- Most marketers are still confused about how AI works (eMarketer)
- The power of YouTube: A digital star is joining CN’s Powerpuff Girls in Australia as a fourth character (Tube Filter)
- Minecraft is trying to teach kids the history of the Oregon Trail with a new update (Engadget)
- Excessive holiday discounting is part of what’s hurting toy retailers (The Guardian)
- The Canadian government may be next to ban food advertising to kids (Global News)
- Tech’s next frontier is AI, but without an ethical watchdog it could all go awry (WIRED)
- MIT is teaching kids to code with wooden blocks (Quartz)
- In a streaming-obsessed world, Disney continues to command DVD and Blu-Ray sales (Variety)
- They’re not like Millennials, so what makes young Gen Z-ers tick? (Wired)
- Some Toys “R” Us suppliers are cutting shipments over financing fears (Bloomberg)
- Hulu steps up its original content spend to US$2.5 billion, but still lags behind Netflix and Amazon (Variety)
- The LEGO movie sequel is going to look at the differences between how girls and boys play (Gizmodo)
- TV ad spend may have taken a hit, but mobile is driving massive growth worldwide (Recode)
- US viewers spent a billion hours watching YouTube videos on mobile in July (TechCrunch)
- Snapchat doubles down on augmented reality, bringing bitmojis to life (Recode)
- Job insecurity: High-profile directors getting replaced more quickly when it comes to superhero film franchises (The Toronto Star)
- My Little Pony, UNO and Pez dispensers are some of the finalists to enter the Toy Hall of Fame (CBS)
- A new Ofcom report says TV broadcasters are failing to represent society (BBC News)
- The Last J.J.edi: J.J. Abrams returns to the director’s chair for Star Wars Episode IX (Wired)
- Turns out it was the power of YouTube that pivoted Netflix to original video (Recode)
- US TV ad spend is taking a bigger hit than expected, as audiences will shrink 10% by 2021 (eMarketer)
- Apple is embracing augmented reality with its new animated emojis (AdWeek)
- Netflix’s CFO says the SVOD giant could spend US$20 million on a single episode (Variety)
- Girl powered: Females are playing games on their phones more often than males (eMarketer)
- After massively selling out last Christmas, Nintendo is bringing back the NES Classic (The Verge)
- Despicable Me 3 crosses the US$1-billion mark (Bloomberg)
- Is original content enough to bring in subscribers to Apple, Facebook and Disney’s new SVODs? (Forbes)
- This 10-year-old has created a US$2-million Amazon business (Fast Company)
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