- With a US$60-million media budget in hand, what Toys “R” Us’ new CMO has in store for the retail giant (AdAge)
- Why a wave of PG-rated moves is overtaking Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hulu is hiring a chief content officer to beef up its slate of originals (Deadline)
- Fake Peppa Pig is on the loose, at least on YouTube (Outline)
- Fast Retailing will take on new meaning for Uniqlo over the next five years (Bloomberg)
- From Pennsylvania Avenue to Sesame Street: President Trump’s proposed budget wants to slash all funding to PBS (The Wrap)
- A whopping 82% of kids in Netflix-only homes don’t know what TV ads are (Independent)
- More than half of US Amazon customers are using Prime (eMarketer)
- As robot-making continues to take off, this toy startup just raised US$30 million (Tech Crunch)
- Lego-compatible adhesive tape is about to make those little bricks even more universal (PC Mag)
- Netflix is one step closer to becoming a movie studio, now that a former Universal exec is leading its film efforts (Engadget)
- The need for speed: What Hasbro’s digital marketing SVP has to say about live video strategies in 2017 (Adweek)
- Childhood laziness kicks in at around age seven (CBC)
- A YouTube Red series just outperformed popular Amazon and Netflix shows (Tubefilter)
- Not all smart toys are a problem, but parents need to be better informed of what’s at stake (USA Today)
- One week in, and Nintendo Switch has sold 1.5 million consoles globally (Polygon)
- Why R&D unit Viacom Next is saying no to a SpongeBob VR experience (Variety)
- Unhappy deal: A Canadian lawyer wants to sue McDonald’s for inappropriately advertising to kids (Montreal Gazette)
- Exploring the root of a child’s tech addiction, and how we can effectively stop it (Chicago Tribune)
- Growth from ads—not users—will be the ticket to Snap’s future payday (Recode)
- China is cracking down on westernized children’s books (The Guardian)
- AI Mickey is coming to Disney parks in the not-so-distant future (The Independent)
- Will Viacom suffer from no live-TV deals with Hulu, YouTube TV and Sony PlayStation Vue? (TeccCrunch)
- Is Netflix’s reign everlasting? (Fortune)
- The play truth: These toys understand the factual science of fun (Forbes)
- An interactive storytelling feature may be coming to Netflix (Forbes)
- Health Canada says playing with DIY slime isn’t actually that safe (The Toronto Star)
- Disney will cast Middle Eastern leads in its live-action Aladdin (The Independent)
- Does TV hinder school readiness among poor US kids? (Reuters)
- Barbie, the 58-year-old feminist (Irish Times)
- The pitch for Nintendo’s Switch, and why Netflix will be coming to the console “in time” (The Washington Post)
- Meanwhile, the SVOD vs. cable war is getting pretty ugly (Forbes)
- As its premiere draws near, experts wonder if Disney’s US$300-million Beauty and the Beast gamble will pay off (The New York Times)
- Amazon’s brick-and-mortar bookstores are multiplying (Recode)
- The wearables market remains static, with 74% of people not buying into it at all (eMarketer)
- The 2017 holiday season will bring slower e-commerce growth, even though US consumer confidence is at a new high (eMarketer)
- The spoils of love: Nearly half of parents say they have gone into debt buying something their kids wanted (CNBC)
- The UK has banned junk food ads for kids online, so should Canada follow suit? (The Globe and Mail)
- Circle with Disney zeroes in on Amazon’s Alexa (Engadget)
- Even as the diversity discussion heats up, children’s shows have really had it down since the ’90s (The Huffington Post)
- Disney Research puts bots and tots together to understand verbal interactions (TechCrunch)
- Hollywood and movie-goers are ready for more escapism (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube Kids gets into the spirit of Women’s History Month (Tubefilter)
- The real reason why kids are inactive—and no, it’s not TV’s fault (ABC Australia)
- The rumors are back: A possible Disney acquisition of Netflix could be just what the Mouse House needs (Forbes)
- Mini-millionaires: A look at the kids raking in big bucks on YouTube (stuff)
- In its pledge to never make toys in China, this US company has become a manufacturing anomaly (CNN)
- Beauty and the Beast‘s gay character isn’t going over well in Russia… (Variety)
- …But this isn’t the first time Disney has featured LGBT themes in its movies (The Guardian)
- These may be the most brilliant female cartoon characters that ever existed (TIME)
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