- Does a rise in sequels signal Pixar has lost its way? (The Atlantic)
- AwesomenessTV’s VP of talent has left to set up her own shop (Variety)
- PAW Patrol-themed fruit? The sweet reality of marketing produce to kids (CBC)
- A new app is combining AI and a youth advisory council to stop cyberbullying (CNBC)
- How Sinking Ship became a kids TV powerhouse (The Toronto Star)
- eOne shakes up its movie division and takes a US$61-million hit because of it (Variety)
- Twitch is welcoming people to the neighborhood with an 18-day Mister Rogers marathon (The Verge)
- Entitled consumerism at its best? Here’s how Gen Z is reshaping brand experiences (AdWeek)
- Tencent has high hopes for games, investing US$90 million in US studio Pocket Gems (TechCrunch)
- Ahead of Mother’s Day, YouTube figured out what young moms are actually watching (TubeFilter)
- Netflix makes moves in Europe, adding new series and 400 new jobs on the continent (Forbes)
- O Canada: Why the Great White North is so good at making kids TV (CBC)
- Snapchat parentco posts massive US$2.2-billion loss (Variety)
- Why is Barbie going on 59, yet Beanie Babies are so yesterday? New research on why kids love toy fads (NPR)
- NPR brings its storytelling power to kids with its first younger-skewing podcast (Neiman Lab)
- How Instagram Stories is eating into Snapchat’s growth (TechCrunch)
- The Australian government is putting money into apps to help Indigenous kids learn (Gizmodo)
- Charge it: Visa has created an app-connected credit card for kids (The Verge)
- Hulu is becoming more of an SVOD contender, but it’s still lacking some content that could make it great (Engadget)
- Experts weigh in on whether influencer marketing can take an indie game to the next level (Pocket Gamer)
- Ratatouille creator to direct VR-based Google Spotlight Story, Piggy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Kids’ suicidal thoughts and actions have doubled in the past decade, according to American Pediatrics (Chicago Tribune)
- See who is really benefiting from the DIY slime trend (AdWeek)
- The best way to capture an audience is to make them fans, but that’s not always so simple (Strategy + Business)
- The first of Facebook’s long-form shows could hit the web as early as mid-June (Tube Filter)
- Emma Watson and Felicity Jones rule the best actor and hero categories at the MTV Movie and TV Awards (The Washington Post)
- With Star Wars IIX on the horizon, a look at how Lego creates its branded toys from concept to completion (CNBC)
- Kids may not be learning anything from educational apps after all (Melbourne Herald Sun)
- Disney is researching animated face projections…or essentially real-life Snapchat filters (Quartz)
- Toys “R” Us is completely revamping its online presence after admitting it dropped the ball (USA Today)
- Guardians 2′s US$427.6 million rockets Marvel’s Cinematic Universe past US$11 billion in combined global grosses (Variety)
- Facebook is shuttering its two-year-old Oculus Story Studio (TechCrunch)
- Netflix may be doing incredibly well, but investors continue to worry about the cash burn (Variety)
- Scientists are using Lego to experiment with sound vibrations on time reversal (Quartz)
- DanTDM weighs in on why kids love YouTube so much (The Huffington Post)
- Hoverboards, Hatchimals and fidget spinners: Are toy trends boring? (Maclean’s)
- Hulu has officially launched its live TV service with more than 50 channels (CNBC)
- Meanwhile, this is how Snapchat is approaching the small screen (TechCrunch)
- AMC is making big headway in China, mainly because of Minions (eMarketer)
- Serious pushback: Cartoonist who falsely claimed he created Kung Fu Panda gets two years in jail (The Guardian)
- Why Disney doesn’t care if Star Wars 9 and Avengers 4 duke it out at the box office (Forbes)
- Microsoft vies for classroom attention (The Washington Post)
- Disney narrowly escapes copyright suit for Pirates of the Caribbean (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Don’t count wearables out just yet: Apple Watch sales doubled in the past year (The Verge)
- Time Warner surpassed earnings expectations, thanks to The Lego Batman Movie (Variety)
- Amazon’s kidtech extends to all Android phones and tablets (Tech Crunch)
- Midnight madness: Writers and studios have averted a strike (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teens are spending a whopping three hours and 38 minutes per day on their phones (eMarketer)
- App downloads were up in Q1, especially for those of the Google variety (App Annie)
- Hong Kong Disneyland is about to get a US$1.4-billion expansion (Variety)
- Samsung is the latest to step into the ring of parental controls (The Verge)
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