- Despite being cancelled, Disney’s Girl Meets World still picks up a PGA nom (Variety)
- Intense air pollution might be affecting China’s box office (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Egg shells are cooler than seashells, especially if it’s thousands of Kinder eggs washing up on shore (Mashable)
- Nielsen delays debut of Total Content Ratings measurement after TV execs balk (Variety)
- The Internet of Things is a hit with parents (MarTechToday)
- When it comes to kids and giving praise, a new study shows the importance of getting it just right (New York Magazine)
- Apple’s App Store had its best month ever in December—and games are leading the charge (Verge)
- PewDiePie’s qualms with a five-year-old’s toy review channel are part of a larger conversation on kids’ YouTube consumption (TubeFilter)
- A weak holiday season has led US retailer Macy’s to close 63 stores and cut 10,000 jobs (Fortune)
- What does phase two of the internet of things have in store? (AdWeek)
- Amazon just had its best holiday season yet, doubling deliveries for third-party sellers (Reuters)
- Disney restructures its business in India, where the character licensing market is growing 18% every year (Forbes)
- Lego gives things a Boost at CES (The Verge)
- No more CCTV International: State-owned Chinese television has relaunched its foreign channels as CGTN (Variety)
- A subscription-based kids clothing line has already raised US$12.5 million (Forbes)
- Hold on, maybe kids do learn better from people than apps (NPR)
- Despite Nintendo’s sinking shares, Super Mario Run scores more than 40 million downloads (The Telegraph)
- More changes at DreamWorks Animation, as the company’s co-president bids farewell (Variety)
- Meanwhile, Illumination Entertainment’s Sing is starting things off on a high note (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney targets Snapchat’s massive youth base in a new original content deal (PC Mag)
- With not a Hatchimal in sight, other low-tech toys are offering high returns this holiday (CBC)
- More moves for Maker: Disney absorbs the digital video network it bought two years ago into its media arm (Variety)
- You’ll have to wait a bit longer to feel like you’re in a movie, as IMAX delays its new VR theaters (The Verge)
- It was a big year for comic-book movies, and within those films are some hints of what’s coming next (Vanity Fair)
- What 2017 may look like for the world of digital marketing (AdWeek)
- Why, despite increased awareness, has the number of kids TV junk-food ads skyrocketed over the past four years? (The Huffington Post)
- Culture shock? Third Yo-kai Watch movie bests Rogue One at the Japanese box office… (Variety)
- …Even still, Disney has officially broken the US$7-billion box-office record in 2016 (The Guardian)
- With its US$560-million Gracenote purchase, Nielsen takes another step to improve its ratings accuracy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nineties nostalgia has been good to Hasbro this year (Yahoo)
- Teen YouTube creators make a run for Netflix in new original movie Coin Heist (TubeFilter)
- The legacy lives: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story rakes in US$290 million at the global box office (Fortune)
- Nintendo’s foray into mobile gaming has not exactly translated into stock market success (The Globe and Mail)
- A history of gendered toy marketing, and why girls are its greatest casualty (National Geographic)
- Vine swings into app mode, helping users migrate their followers to Twitter (Variety)
- Time to call in the Olsen twins? Netflix’s Fuller House reportedly isn’t sustaining viewership (TubeFilter)
- It’s called a golden parachute for a reason: Philippe Dauman pocketed US$93 million in his last year at Viacom (The Wrap)
- Holiday mentions: Hatchimals, Shopkins and Tsum Tsum are among the most talked-about toys and tech on social (alistdaily)
- Meanwhile, 2016 can be summed up in nine huge digital trends (AdWeek)
- Study finds racial disparity when it comes to junk-food ad exposure among US kids (The Washington Post)
- The leading reason why people shell out money for an app (eMarketer)
- How will children change as parenting becomes more tech-focused? (Quartz)
- And the mega-mergers continue: Fox’s US$23-billion takeover bid for Sky accepted (BBC)
- Well, not all mega-mergers: Redstones stop CBS merger talks, name Bob Bakish permanent Viacom CEO (Bloomberg)
- Starbucks launches animated short series with The Simpsons scribes (AdAge)
- Smoke and mirrors? Magic Leap is not close to being market-ready (The Verge)
- The full list of 2016 SAG Award nominees (Variety)
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