- From entertainers to entrepreneurs, here are the 30 most influential teens of 2016 (TIME)
- China’s richest man wants to lure major Hollywood storytellers with a 40% production rebate—but there’s a catch (Los Angeles Times)
- In a bid to attract new customers, Walmart’s digital movie store Vudu gets into free streaming (CNET)
- Time for a better filter? Online influencers in the UK are flouting disclosure rules related to branded posts (Digiday)
- Netflix’s global subscriber base soars—leading its stock to do the same (Fortune)
- China’s most popular social messaging platform takes things to new heights with a video-streaming drone (Re/code)
- Madagascar director’s VR studio Baobab closes US$25 million in new funding (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Candy Crush has inspired a live-action game show, but will success be as sweet on the boob tube? (The Verge)
- This infographic shows what the future of retail marketing really looks like (AdWeek)
- Getting personnel: Disney’s Chinese rival Dalian Wanda reportedly poaches Hong Kong Disneyland senior exec (Fortune)
- Parents are distracted by mobile tech more than anything else, so how is this impacting their kids? (Quartz)
- Some analysts believe Netflix’s targets might no longer be achievable (The Wall Street Journal)
- 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)
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