- Far from disappearing: Snapchat to get a US$20-billion valuation (TechCrunch)
- Sumner Redstone takes Viacom’s direction out of CEO Philippe Daumon’s hands (Fortune)
- Are Lego toys becoming more violent? One study says yes (Mashable)
- Nintendo directs more copyright shade at YouTubers’ Mario-based Minecraft videos (Games Industry)
- In the US, eighth-grade girls have outperformed boys on a new national engineering test─and why this matters STEM-wise (Vox)
- Three-dimensional animated avatars invade the messaging app world in Rawr (VentureBeat)
- Kids learn through movement, so why are early-childhood classrooms stuck on desktop-heavy teaching styles? (The Atlantic)
- Study finds kids are swapping portable consoles for smartphones at around age 10 (Ubergizmo)
- Industry insight: What it really takes to get a show made in this era of Peak TV (Vulture)
- Overseas, Amazon and Netflix content could be getting a lot more European (Fortune)
- Charting the rising price of Disney World tickets, which have surged 392% since 1971 (AOL)
- The US entertainment industry will spend US$3.29 billion on digital ads this year (eMarketer)
- Disney unveils VR movie demos on digital platform Steam (The Verge)
- A rare glimpse inside Netflix’s programming process from the mouth of one of its original content VPs (Fast Company)
- The YA and kids books that have booksellers buzzing right now (Publishers Weekly)
- What would a contestable fund mean for the future of the UK children’s production sector? (Open Democracy)
- iPad support: Apple makes a major push into the US classroom (The Stock Market Today)
- After watching digital-first brand Vice move into TV, there are takeaways to be had (AdWeek)
- It’s the end of an era, as Disney bids farewell to its Dollars program (Gizmodo)
- Nostalgia for Canuck preschool series Nanalan’ takes form in the digital age (National Post)
- AwesomenessTV to launch live kid-focused video games award show (Variety)
- The inflated salaries of social media influencers, and why change is afoot for the practice (Digiday)
- Legally speaking, the Cabbage Patch Kids are more relevant today than ever before (Bloomberg)
- About-face? Facebook pulls facial recognition software from its Moments app due to privacy concerns (The Toronto Star)
- Should kids be meditating their way to better grades? (The New York Times)
- Prepare for eSports to reach mainstream entertainment status (VentureBeat)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows gets financial support from China’s Wanda Cinema (Variety)
- Streaming revenues outperform downloads for Warner Music Group─and what this means for the rest of the music industry (National Post)
- Fullscreen Media re-org brings creators, consumers and Mattel branded content into the fold (Variety)
- Beyonce, Instagram and comedy are tops for Gen Z girls (AdWeek)
- The carefully designed and expertly crafted playrooms of Manhattan (The New York Times)
- Re-envisioning the Boy Scouts through a new design lens (Fast Company)
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