- What’s better than Christmas? Amazon’s Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined (CNBC)
- More than half of US broadband households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon or Hulu (Rapid TV News)
- Disney’s casting process for Aladdin hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Influencers. Interactive. Ikea. The ideas behind this back-to-school marketing campaign are as buzz-worthy as it gets. (AdWeek)
- The Japanese prodco behind Domo is producing a stop-motion kids series for Netflix (Variety)
- Not easy being green: Longtime Kermit the Frog puppeteer exits The Muppets (BBC News)
- How other retailers, like Toys “R” Us, are competing against Amazon Prime Day (NBC)
- The way to get ahead? Oculus cuts the price of its VR set in order to lure more consumers (The Globe and Mail)
- Are smart toys doing a parent’s job? (MarketWatch)
- My Little Pony word ‘ponify’ is now officially in the Webster’s dictionary (Action Figure Insider)
- Dalian Wanda, Disney’s largest rival in China, is being sold for a whopping US$9.3 billion (BBC News)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming swings to the US weekend box office’s top spot (Variety)
- The future is friendly: BBC is testing voice-activated kids content via Amazon Alexa and iOS (Digital TV Europe)
- Meanwhile, is Amazon Prime really on track to become more popular than cable TV? (Recode)
- What today’s teens want, from Bill Nye the Science Guy to Beyonce (Advertising Age)
- Trust no one: Kids are most likely to be bullied by their own friends (CNN)
- Sesame Street takes path to Hulu via a new HBO deal (CNBC)
- Niantic CEO on the success of Pokemon GO and where the app is headed next (The Verge)
- How Instagram makes itself addictive (Fast Company)
- Plugged-in parents make for more badly behaved kids, says a new study (The Globe and Mail)
- Technology addictions are a real thing, and kids are the most affected (eMarketer)
- Streaming services are taking a big bite out of Disney Channel’s ratings… (Fast Company)
- …And cord-cutters are watching more Netflix than Amazon, Hulu and YouTube combined (TechCrunch)
- Forget concerts, Minecraft is now the big ticket at the Sydney Opera House (The Guardian)
- Why telling kids to focus on the future could actually lead to failure (Quartz)
- How do kids become brilliant? A scientist says the answer is in collaboration (NPR)
- When it comes to children’s shows, parents have more affection for SpongeBob than they do Peppa (The Independent)
- Can Snapchat survive without influencers? (Digiday)
- What do Mulan, Monsters University and The Walking Dead all have in common? (Vanity Fair)
- How borrowing from the entertainment industry can make learning easier (TechCrunch)
- Hollywood’s franchise crisis, the July Fourth edition (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Over fears of gaming addictions, Chinese internet giant Tencent introduces time limits for kids (Fortune)
- Kids aren’t color blind: Why conversations about race are a necessary reality (Quartz)
- How is Gen Z really using social media? It’s different than you’d expect (Recode)
- Sign of the times: Disney drops ‘wench’ auction from its Pirates ride (AV Club)
- Disney’s early upfront gains point to a healthy TV ad market (Variety)
- The desire to hit it big on YouTube has proven disastrous for a crop of young people (CNN)
- A decade later, the best and worst iPhone predictions (Fortune)
- Why Target is missing an important retail mark (CNBC)
- AI’s next frontier: Moderating social media comments (TubeFilter)
- The art of the pitch in three simple steps (Fast Company)
- Why the developers behind new PSVR game Moss chose a kid-friendly story (Games Industry)
- Beeping its way to the bank: Original Star Wars R2-D2 sells for more than US$2.7 million (The Guardian)
- In cases of mistaken or stolen identities, kids are the most vulnerable (Bloomberg)
- For kids that don’t want to be left in the dark, this nightlight sends social media notifications (The Verge)
- PlayStation takes second shot at original video content (Games Industry)
- DIY slime is turning into big business with one dedicated YouTube channel earning US$200,000 a month (TubeFilter)
- Can ads and broadcast roots give Hulu an advantage over Netflix? (Business Insider)
- Forget automated voices, Waze is now using Lightning McQueen to navigate people (AdWeek)
- The iPhone has completely changed the way kids communicate with their parents (The Verge)
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