- Zootopia topples Frozen as Disney Animation’s biggest launch ever (Variety)
- Investments in AR and VR companies have reached US$1.1 billion in the first two months of 2016 alone (Fast Company)
- Why the bricks-and-mortar retail entertainment experience is still very much alive and well in the UK (Business Insider)
- Why are big-name gaming publishers forgoing their booths at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (Games Industry)
- The gendered toy debate heats up, thanks to Disney Infinity‘s new product line (Mashable)
- Snapchat lands a US$175-million investment (Variety)
- Study finds video games could actually promote weight loss among kids (CBS News)
- Things just got real: Six Flags debuts the first VR roller coasters in the US (Venture Beat)
- Netflix accounted for roughly half of the overall 3% decline in TV viewership in the US last year (Variety)
- More confidence in store: Moody’s upgrades the Toys”R”Us credit rating from negative to stable (North Jersey)
- The future of augmented reality can be seen through Star Wars (TechCrunch)
- The case for banning all junk food TV ads aimed at kids (Fast Company)
- Profits may be up 31% for Lego, but Mattel’s revenues are still tops in the global toy industry (The Wall Street Journal)
- American schools are putting kids’ social-emotional skills to the test (The New York Times)
- With its users collectively watching eight billion video views per day, Snapchat closes in on Facebook (Re/code)
- Amazon recalls the power adapter for its children’s tablet due to electrical shock risks (The Guardian)
- Playing with food: In Sweden, McDonald’s is turning Happy Meal boxes into VR goggles (AdWeek)
- By blocking words like “transgender,” is new search engine Kiddle doing children a disservice? (Independent)
- This children’s book has been deemed the world’s most effective advertising campaign (Mashable)
- Lessons in decision-making from leading execs at Google and Buzzfeed (Fast Company)
- Inside Out‘s Oscar win marks the eighth time in nine years a Disney film has won for Best Animated Feature (Deadline)
- Bear Story wins Oscar for Best Animated Short, after becoming the first Chilean work to be nominated in the category (Los Angeles Times)
- Twenty years and US$40 billion later, Pokémon remains as relevant as ever before (The Atlantic)
- Peter Rabbit becomes first kidlit character to appear on a UK coin (The Guardian)
- A tribute to licensing industry vet Robert Miller (License Global)
- Netflix appeases the mobile masses with a series of new updates (The Independent)
- Since screen time is inevitable among kids, why not embrace the creative value in tech? (Fast Company)
- Walmart and its rocky road ahead (Forbes)
- The star tech toys to emerge from this year’s New York Toy Fair (USA Today)
- How Target virtually won the holiday shopping season (Fortune)
- Study confirms Netflix’s destruction of the physical video market (Digital TV Europe)
Why interest – especially when it comes to VC funding – has cooled off for YouTube’s multi-channel networks (Digiday)- Old and new media are at war, and Hollywood’s the battlefield (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hoverboard enthusiasts won’t find what they’re looking for on Amazon anymore (CNET)
- Brain waves: Kids who jump, wiggle and squat while they learn may absorb more than those who are sedentary (The Toronto Star)
- Viacom may sell a minority stake in Paramount Pictures, and what that means for the future of the company (Los Angeles Times)
- Disney’s Zootopia tops TV ad spend (Variety)
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