- 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)
- Are kindergarten teachers fueling the STEM gender gap? (Fortune)
- Verizon buys upstart Vessel for its short-form video tech, plans to shut down its SVOD service (Re/code)
- Target goes big on holiday TV marketing with an eight-minute musical dubbed The Toycracker (Campaign)
- Ghostbusters action: A first look at Playmobil’s initial entertainment-based playsets (Gizmodo)
- App developer Seriously is using influencers to market the next phase of its hit IP Best Fiends (alistdaily)
- According to US developers, the future of AR is brighter than VR… (eMarketer)
- …Except things aren’t exactly sunny over at multi-billion-dollar AR startup Magic Leap (Business Insider)
- Winne, a mobile directory of family-friendly places, nabs US$2.5 million in funding (TechCrunch)
- How Nickelodeon changed TV production and consumption—and got a country hooked on cable (Vulture)
- What Netflix’s CEO has to say about content, costs and the competition (CNBC)
- Study says more screen time equals less homework for US kids (Quartz)
- Cozmo’s toy robot is bringing big AI moves to the smallest of hands (Venture Beat)
- The US$85-billion AT & T – Time Warner deal will face serious regulatory hurdles… (Wall Street Journal)
- …But is it a necessary move to compete with Google? (Wired)
- Consumer groups file FTC complaint against Google, Maker & Awesomeness for kid influencer marketing (Washington Post)
- Pokémon GO gets first-ever in-game event for Halloween (TechCrunch)
- Snapchat comes under fire for failing to protect user privacy (CBC)
- How big is Amazon? The e-commerce giant’s retail share could represent nearly 30% of all online goods Americans buy (USA Today)
- Disney’s collaboration with one L.A. museum shows the art of Snapchat marketing (Advertising Age)
- Is the gendered past behind keyboard education still lingering? (The Atlantic)
- Nintendo finally lifts the curtain on its next gaming console, the Nintendo Switch (TechCrunch)
- Google’s CBS deal sets the foundation for YouTube’s streaming TV service (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney-branded produce is coming to a grocery aisle near you (Los Angeles Times)
- With his yard transformed into a playground, this Silicon Valley dad embodies the anti-helicopter parent movement (The New York Times)
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