- From Snoopy to Animaniacs, the Annecy 2021 TV competition field is full of familiar brands (Variety)
- YouTube is considering hiding dislikes on videos to protect creators (Business Insider)
- Snap is still trying to make AR spectacles happen, and now it’s also working on a drone (Tubefilter)
- The TV screenwriter behind the original Muppet Babies lost his lawsuit against the reboot…on a technicality (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney+ Hotstar is absolutely crushing the competition in India (TBI)
- Nick has pulled two SpongeBob eps, one about a virus and one that’s not “kid-appropriate” anymore (New York Times)
- If Facebook’s “Instagram for kids” works, it will have huge financial repercussions (Wall Street Journal)
- Comic-Con is planning to come back in November, but do stars and producers really want to be there? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As allegations mount against Armie Hamer, Disney has big decisions to make about his upcoming feature (Variety)
- Minecraft videos are crazy-popular with kids…but YouTube has a problem with disturbing game content (WIRED)
- A look at how one video game developer is trying to get more women into the industry (Washington Post)
- LEGO opened hundreds of stores last year while bricks-and-mortar retail floundered—can others follow suit? (Toy News)
- Netflix and Amazon fed some provocative projects through India’s industry that are now under fire (CNN)
- News Corp is beginning a new chapter, acquiring publisher HMH’s consumer division (Variety)
- Godzilla vs. Kong is off to a strong start in China (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Scholastic has pulled a Captain Underpants spinoff amid concerns of “passive racism” (Deadline)
- Schools in Canada are getting take-home COVID-19 tests so kids can help identify cases (The Star)
- Toy companies have been caught up in the Suez Canal blockage (Toy News)
- With its mid-2000s webisode plots, iCarly may feel a bit dated now, but the show is still very relevant (Insider)
- New social media platform Bigo Live is trying to create an online environment without toxic content (Toronto Star)
- Why does Microsoft want to buy Discord? (The Verge)
- Pixar’s Soul took home the Producer’s Guid Award for best animated feature, likely locking in the Oscar (USA Today)
- Warner Bros. is going to bring its movies back to theaters, and not on HBO Max starting in 2022 (Polygon)
- A new inquiry has found that UK broadcasters are being held back by antiquated legislation in the fight against SVODs (Variety)
- Mattel has joined several other California-based companies in signing an equal pay pledge (Forbes)
- Disney is changing up its release schedule, delaying several films and pushing another animated feature straight to SVOD (Forbes)
- Even after the pandemic ends, TV habits may never go back to “normal,” according to new research (Advanced Television)
- What will the future of office work look like? (Recode)
- It’s not too late to get in on the action: Blockchain is doing extremely well with NFT sales (Wall Street Journal)
- Roku has recruited the former Funny or Die content team for its new ad studio (Variety)
- HBO Max won’t launch in UK, Italy or Germany until 2025 because of an existing deal with Sky (Financial Times)
- Does anyone have US$3 billion? ViacomCBS is looking to raise some serious cash for its content push (Digital TV Europe)
- A look inside Ryan Kaji’s YouTube empire (Bloomberg)
- Netflix’s The Sleepover won the only children’s prize at the Writer’s Guild Awards (News Break)
- Films are an anthropological tool that helps preserve global diversity (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Roku has acquired This Old House Venture’s 1,500-episode library (Variety)
- Inside Globo’s push for Brazilian kids content (TBI Vision)
- In entertainment, newbies have to pay their dues…but how do you do that in a pandemic? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- According to internal documents, Facebook is building an Instagram for under-13s (BuzzFeed News)
- A lot of parents have parked their guilt over screen time (Glamour)
- Keeping it classy: Next month’s Oscars ceremony won’t have any Zoom calls or jeans (Variety)
- …And the inside story of how Cartoon Saloon made its Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers (Medium)
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