- 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)
- Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements has officially proposed a CBS-Viacom merger (The Wrap)
- Simba in the flesh: Disney is prepping a live-action/CGI reboot of The Lion King (The Hollywood Reporter)
- When it comes to customer satisfaction, does Netflix really reign supreme? (BGR)
- This toyco is looking to break gender stereotypes in its latest ad campaign—and some have taken note (The Huffington Post)
- Amazon’s e-commerce ubiquity has reached a whole new level, according to this new study (Business Insider)
- Kano wants to take the learn-to-code trend beyond the PC and further into the hands of kids (Fast Company)
- The most popular creator on Musical.ly is a 15-year-old with big plans in her future (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Charting it: What the social media landscape really looks like today (Advertising Age)
- Why Twitter’s video capability may have Disney in the mix as a potential buyer (Fortune)
- Mattel’s 3D toy printer, the ThingMaker, won’t be making things happen this fall after all (Engadget)
- AwesomenessTV goes on a signing spree, adding 10 new faces to its multi-channel network (TubeFilter)
- Canadian SVOD Shomi is shutting down amidst Netflix domination (Bloomberg)
- Snapchat and Spectacles—or Snap and Specs, as they’re now called—are on a quest for camera-glasses domination (Wired)
- The turf wars heat up in China, as Disney rival Wanda debuts its second theme park in the country (BBC News)
- Why toys-to-life has longevity for Warner Bros., according to Lego Dimensions’ game director (Venture Beat)
- How do you solve a problem like cyberbullying? (TechCrunch)
- Reading the market: Amazon is packing its new US$100 Kindle e-reader with 250,000 children’s titles (Wired)
- India will welcome 65 Toys “R” Us-branded outlets over the next 10 years (The Economic Times)
- Lego’s potential reaches new heights—literally—in this new drone-building kit (Engadget)
- There are now double the number of advertisers on Instagram than there were six months ago (Fast Company)
- A third Star Wars Anthology film is definitely in the works for 2020, says Disney CEO Bob Iger (Digital Spy)
- Any surprises here? YouTube’s popularity soars among teens, with 91% of them using the video-sharing site (eMarketer)
- By putting screens in the background, connected toys are preparing to take over the playroom (The Guardian)
- The rise of social and sensory issues among preschoolers—and why good old-fashioned play can help (The Washington Post)
- Viacom’s interim CEO Tom Dooley will swiftly exit the company in November (The Wrap)
- SVOD goals: Netflix aims to have a 50-50 split between original and licensed content (Digital TV Europe)
- New Amazon series Toy Wars will follow the real-life rivalry between Hasbro and Mattel (Deadline)
- Homido enters the VR kids space with an affordable line of Google Cardboard-compatible headsets (alistdaily)
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