- On the eve of her 100th birthday, renowned children’s author Beverly Cleary opens up about life, work and, of course, Ramona Quimby (The New York Times)
- Stars Wars: The Force Awakens wins big at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards (Rolling Stone)
- How top MCNs─including Maker Studios─are managing YouTube stars and chasing ad dollars (Adweek)
- A new wave of consumer confidence? Retail imports to the US are growing faster than anticipated (The Wall Street Journal)
- Is Disney’s new interpretation of The Jungle Book actually too scary for kids? (International Business Times)
- Popular vehicle-soccer video game Rocket League is rolling into the hands of educators (VentureBeat)
- Nielsen finds G-rated content leads to A+ results for advertisers (AdWeek)
- Quantity and quality? Warner Bros. may be re-evaluating its film strategy, with 19 movies slated for 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- US watchdog says the airwaves are in need of a serious spring cleaning–and that a poor TV content ratings system is to blame (MediaPost Communications)
- Politics of play: The White House wants to create a toy world that’s free of gender stereotypes (Forbes)
- Felicity Jones’s strong female character is at the center of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Is Facebook now in a position to compete against web and TV video rivals? (Reuters)
- Nintendo remains tight-lipped on its new NX console, but the internet rumor mill keeps on churning (CNET)
- Study shows that a number of US fast-food chains are putting fewer calories into their kids meals (US News & World Report)
- Modern fatherhood looks a whole lot different than the days of yore─and marketers have taken note (eMarketer)
- Shanghai Disneyland is off to an encouraging start, with opening day tickets selling out within hours (Forbes)
- How American Idol forever changed the TV landscape 14 years ago (Los Angeles Times)
- The Australian toy industry rejects claims that gendered playthings are linked to domestic violence (Sydney Morning Herald)
- CastAR’s augmented reality gaming strategy is taking a page from Nintendo’s playbook (Games Industry)
- How more global collaborations and tech growth are boosting the Spanish TV animation biz (Variety)
- Just because a startup is well-funded doesn’t mean it will always succeed. Some lessons from the trenches (Fast Company)
- The box-office plight of Batman v. Superman (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Social media marketing may not be drive big retail bucks, after all (AdWeek)
- Beyond blonde: How startup GoldieBlox is bringing more diversity to its girl-skewing toys (Fortune)
- How will Hollywood fare in the age of virtual reality? (TechCrunch)
- Sounds of silence: Why is the market for kid-centric podcasts so barren? (The Atlantic)
- Loss of Disney Infinity spells trouble for Apple TV’s gaming initiatives (ars technica)
- Snow White’s sister to get her own live-action movie (Variety)
- Despite what you may have heard, young people are far from leaving Facebook en masse (Re/code)
- A newly launched Willy Wonka-themed app may be Zynga’s golden ticket (Venture Beat)
- HBO meets Walgreens: How Amazon’s retail prowess informs its studio production business (Wired)
- From model to role model, Karlie Kloss launches a coding camp for young girls (Fast Company)
- Toy makers and the world of play offer lessons on how to adapt to new technologies (Harvard Business Review)
- The significance behind former Disney chairman Dick Cook’s US$500-million deal with a Chinese movie company (Los Angeles Times)
- Star Wars technology is almost a reality with Microsoft’s new holoportation system (Gizmag)
- This psychologist believes in a child-rearing world devoid of any punishment (The Atlantic)
- Instagram wants to put a larger focus on video (The Hollywood Reporter)
Are smart toys just digital babysitters in disguise? (The Guardian) - Disney sets its retail sights on India (The Economic Times)
- Volume drop? TV series and movie lineups on Netflix US shrunk by more than 30% in the past two years (Digital TV Europe)
- The race is on as VR headsets start to reach consumers’ doorsteps (Los Angeles Times)
- The Neverending Story gives Spotify a dose of creative marketing manpower – and, of course, nostalgia (Advertising Age)
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