- Behind the scenes—and screens—at Disney Accelerator’s third annual Demo Day (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In Alibaba’s new VR retail world, all it takes to make a purchase is the nod of a head (Reuters)
- Japanese teens love sharing selfies, and a heavy majority are using mobile app aillis to do so (eMarketer)
- Turns out, Amazon’s secret drone-testing site is a perfect place for kids, who are being asked to design their very own prototypes (Business Insider)
- Shock value: This chart shows just how much Netflix is pouring into original kids content (Business Insider)
- Why Disney star and outspoken women’s rights activist Rowan Blanchard is not your typical teen (The New York Times)
- Game designers want VR to get over its motion-sickness problem (The Verge)
- Why are fitness levels so low among US kids? (CNN)
- Why Amazon’s video streaming service is more of a threat to retailers than Netflix (Business Insider)
- Snapchat goes to Hollywood, at least when it comes to sourcing content (Digiday)
- Why unschooling continues to gain global steam (The Guardian)
- Another MCN gets into the children’s content space (Digital TV Europe)
- Real reasons why girls opt out of STEM subjects at age 10—and how we can effectively address them (Fast Company)
- Disney officially has three billion-dollar 2016 film releases so far (Forbes)
- Streaming worlds collide: HooplaKidz’s popular YouTube series makes the leap to Netflix (Engadget)
- IMAX readies shared VR centers in Europe (TechCrunch)
- For YouTube stars, the business of making millions has changed—even in the last few months (Business Insider)
- AT&T plans to become a media and entertainment giant, one acquisition at a time (Bloomberg)
- Singer Gwen Stefani open-mics about her new Nickelodeon series Kuu Kuu Harajuku (Los Angeles Times)
- In the UK, this is what historic toy store Hamleys has on its Christmas list (Reuters)
- McDonald’s is among the first companies to usher in Snapchat’s big new advertising frontier (The Drum)
- YouTube Kids makes first inroads into Asia (Mashable)
- Disney and Google are allegedly backing away from a Twitter acquisition (Variety)
- Is toys-to-life a smart place to be for new businesses? PlayFusion tests the waters in a big way with Lightseekers game (TechCrunch)
- In a world of TV Everywhere, viewership is only going to get more fragmented (MediaPost)
- Google puts comfort—and Harry Potter—first with its newly unveiled Daydream mobile VR platform (The Verge)
- Why Walmart is adapting to a changing retail landscape better than rival Target (Barron’s)
- Should we feel good about robots developing real emotions? (Fast Company)
- Disney’s live-action adaptations keep rolling in, with a Mulan film in the works for 2018 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Is Disney stepping up to buy Netflix? The buzz hits Wall Street (MarketWatch)
- Reports show US digital and linear TV ad spend is neck and neck (eMarketer)
- What a potential Sears bankruptcy would mean for toy makers this holiday (The Street)
- Changing face on screen time? Study says video chats could benefit infants (NPR)
- VR’s big turning point (TechCrunch)
- How are Disney’s raft of live-action reboots affecting its brand? (Forbes)
- PewDiePie strikes again. Fans of the YouTuber take his game to the top of the App Store, crashing servers along the way (Variety)
- Celebrated children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers’ career has surprising origins (The Guardian)
- Hollywood sighs in relief as the FCC delays the vote on its cable set-top box proposal (The Wrap)
- With six Netflix superhero shows in play, Marvel’s development team has some secret weapons of its own (AdWeek)
- The lucrative coding business still shines bright, with CodeSpark nabbing US$4.1 million in funding (TechCrunch)
- Kids spend more time with their parents today than they did in the ’60s (University of California)
- Talk about early adopters. Best Buy will usher in Sony’s PlayStation VR launch at the stroke of midnight at 350 of its US stores. (The Verge)
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