- Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy is reportedly taking Sesame Street to the big screen (The Guardian)
- What a Trump presidency will mean for the tech world (BBC)
- Even 30 years from now the Lego brick will stay strong, according to the company’s CMO (CNBC)
- Plenty of young internet users are blocking online ads—branded messaging, however, is more well received (eMarketer)
- Vine isn’t dead just yet, as Twitter eyes sales bids (TechCrunch)
- As technology continues to infiltrate the classroom, are kids the ones losing out? (The Walrus)
- Know your audience: Teen Vogue will become a quarterly print magazine as its young readers flock online (Advertising Age)
- Drones will officially touch down at Disney theme parks (Popular Mechanics)
- DreamWorks’ Trolls over-performs, generating US$45.6 million at a tired US fall box office (The Guardian)
- The impending impact of China’s new Cybersecurity Law, which has data localization, surveillance and real-name requirements (TechCrunch)
- Homer’s TV odyssey: The Simpsons takes the award for the most episodes of a scripted series ever (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In lieu of doing homework, one UK primary school has its students reading books, comics and magazines instead (The Telegraph)
- Mattel’s CEO says he’ll stay at its helm until the company is firing “on all cylinders” (The Wall Street Journal)
- How Warner Bros. is ramping up the digital marketing campaign for Fantastic Beasts (Fast Company)
- Selfishness is prevalent among preschoolers—until something magical happens at age five (The Atlantic)
- Bob Weinstein’s TWC-Dimension label has big-screen ambitions for Hasbro’s Furby (Variety)
- The UK parliament must vote on Brexit, the High Court has ruled (BBC)
- With only 1.5 million paid subscribers, YouTube Red isn’t making a mark on Netflix just yet (The Verge)
- Marvel, Star Wars drive Disney’s best-ever year at the box office (Deadline)
- Will new daily bonuses be enough to keep Pokémon GO alive? (Tech Crunch)
- Among the takeaways from Nielsen’s annual Children’s Book Summit: Online video is tops for kids (Publishers Weekly)
- Hold on—you’ll have to wait 10 years until VR really takes off (Fast Company)
- Pakistan suspends Nickelodeon for airing toons dubbed into Hindi (Advanced Television)
- Facebook is taking a swing at the eSports market (The Next Web)
- Another Disney live-action adaptation is in the works, this time of the Snow White variety (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Study finds kids are quite literally losing sleep over their mobile devices (The Globe and Mail)
- These bibliotherapists want to help children, one book recommendation at a time (The Telegraph)
- The hit no one saw coming: On its 20th birthday, a look at how Pokémon changed the world (AdWeek)
- What this spate of merger mania means for digital creators (Tubefilter)
- Following the demise of Vine, its co-founder unveils new live video service Hype (Tech Crunch)
- YouTube’s content strategy? We’re not Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
- Oculus currently has 100 job vacancies (MCV)
- A closer look at Verizon’s Go90 mobile channel (L.A. Times)
- Twitter cuts Vine, leaving the micro-video platform’s celebs hanging (Advertising Age)
- Investments in video content helped drive down Amazon’s Q3 profit (Business Insider)
- A trip inside the mind-altering corridors of Facebook’s Oculus Story Studio (Digiday)
- Do traditional books spark more curiosity among kids than iPads? Researchers say yes (Business Insider)
- Online bullying forces a female Marvel Comics writer to go silent—and why that speaks volumes about the industry (The Washington Post)
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