- NBCUniversal makes a US$500-million bet on Snap. And here’s why. (Recode)
- Disney Media Distribution boss Ben Pyne is leaving the Mouse House after 25 years (Variety)
- Retailers are doubling down on STEM toys, much to the delight of parents (Fast Company)
- Musicon puts a melodic new spin on helping kids’ psychosocial development (Springwise)
- Target outlines a US$7-billion spending plan, but some questions still remain (CNBC)
- Perhaps online marketers are spending their dollars in the wrong places (eMarketer)
- 25 movies with toy tie-ins will bow this year. What does this unprecedented number really say? (Bloomberg)
- Netflix pours almost US$2 billion into European productions (Variety)
- Snap makes its official market debut with a US$24-billion valuation (CNET)
- Beauty and the Beast will have the first interracial kiss in a Disney live-action film (BBC)
- Perhaps Amazon isn’t as big of a retail threat as we all thought? (Wired)
- Hasbro wants to trademark Play-Doh’s scent (The Independent)
- Calling all cord-cutters: YouTube officially unveils a live TV subscription service (Wired)
- More glitter is in the air for Trolls, which will get a sequel in 2020 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Can Nintendo right its previous marketing wrongs with Switch? (alistdaily)
- Grover makes a lot of mistakes, which makes him perfectly suited to teach kids about STEM (Atlantic)
- Lego is making a set dedicated to the women of NASA (CNET)
- Disney is optimistic ahead of kids upfronts (Variety)
- The world is watching a billion hours of YouTube every day… (Engadget)
- …While Comcast will add a YouTube app to its Xfinity X1 set-top boxes this year (TechCrunch)
- Why we should put mobile safety awareness into teens’ hands (NPR)
- How Star Wars’ Rey forever changed the way kids play (CNBC)
- Amazon bests Netflix for SVOD supremacy at the Oscars… (The Hollywood Report)
- …While Amazon-owned Twitch makes big e-commerce moves by allowing sales of game downloads (The Verge)
- Children can safely play with their phones as health risks need not apply. Maybe. (Wired)
- With a new Massachusetts factory in the works, Hasbro brings Play-Doh manufacturing back to the US (Fortune)
- Are AR apps the only reason kids are playing outside? (App Advice)
- Disney’s Maker Studios division sheds staff and thousands of creators in order to turn things around (Engadget)
- How tech and gender inclusivity are moving the toy industry forward (Fortune)
- Smart toy sales will reach US$8.8 billion by 2020, but at what cost to kids’ privacy? (CNET)
- The web’s most-searched Sesame Street questions finally get answers from Elmo, Bert and more (Wired)
- J.C. Penney’s former CEO says Walmart is the only one taking Amazon seriously (CNBC)
- How come Latino kindergarteners are months behind their white peers in math? (The Atlantic)
- Longtime Paramount Pictures CEO won’t stick around for Viacom’s turnaround (Fortune)
- According to five top-level execs, this is why Disney’s Maker Studios has gone from princess to pumpkin (Digiday)
- Beyond the walled garden: Vtech’s new Android tablet will come with its own kid-friendly messaging system (Engadget)
- A top London girls school is going the distance to erase gender lines (The Independent)
- AwesomenessTV co-founder and CEO Brian Robbins resigns (The Hollywood Reporter)
- China is on the map for Six Flags, which is doubling its theme park construction in the region (Variety)
- Low-cost Google Cardboard led last year’s market share of VR headset shipments (Digital TV Europe)
- How Cartoon Network uses automatic content recognition to connect its Mighty Magiswords apps (alistdaily)
- What influences the influencers? Gen Z is most likely to watch product reviews above other content on YouTube (eMarketer)
- TV is adapting to the times, but the revolution is far from here (The Verge)
- Heightened competition leads Toys “R” Us to cut 250 corporate jobs (Forbes)
- Print magazine sales are down across the board, so how is Peppa Pig successfully withstanding the newsstand? (The Guardian)
- Hatchimals go small (CNN)
- More than half of teens have seen live video, and 30% of them have actually made one (eMarketer)
- How Hot Wheels is helping Mattel reach a younger mobile gaming audience (Games Industry)
- Keeping parents connected to their kids at school has landed startup Brightwheel US$10 million (TechCrunch)
- A new art projector toy really wants to emphasize the A in STEAM (The Verge)
- The UK is taking a modern approach to removing kids’ fear of the doctor, thanks to VR (Wired)
- How should everyone react when a child’s favorite YouTuber does something wrong? (The Boston Globe)
- More layoffs are expected at Disney-owned digital network Maker Studios (The Hollywood Reporter)
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