- Netflix’s plan to be a truly global network is very steadily coming to fruition (Wired)
- America’s favorite pastime is passe? Major League Baseball turns to social media to attract younger fans (AdWeek)
- Nearly 75% of UK kids spend under one hour outside every day – that’s less than prison inmates (Time)
- Girls are inherently interested in science, so why are so many missing from STEM-related programs?
- Sony PlayStation goes mobile, take two (Engadget)
- Inside the messy, convoluted and litigious world of media mogul Sumner Redstone (Vanity Fair)
- A creative future for Mattel rests in its past (CMO)
- What Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are doing wrong when it comes to making good TV shows (Vox)
- AwesomenessTV spreads its international wings (Digital TV Europe)
- Microsoft’s new chat robot wants to be BFF with mobile-toting young adults (CNET)
- Watch out Facebook and Twitter, Google’s live-streaming app YouTube Connect is on its way (Venture Beat)
- With Batman v. Superman set to debut, a look at how superheroes have historically fared at the box office (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The marathon is on: 70% of US consumers are now binge-watching TV shows (Variety)
- How Funko’s deeper dive into Star Wars mythology is boosting its subscription toy box biz (Wired)
- Move over, Walmart. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba may soon be the world’s largest retail platform (China Daily)
- YouTube is the music industry’s latest target amid an ongoing streaming war (Re/code)
- Why Apple’s new iPad Pro could be the greatest threat to PCs yet (Fast Company)
- Disney is recharging its mobile games business by emphasizing quality over quantity (Venture Beat)
- Kids are more stressed out than ever before. So what’s the culprit? (Quartz)
- Halloween doesn’t hold a candle to Easter when it comes to US candy consumption (Fortune)
- The future may not be bright for young adult dystopian movies (Los Angeles Times)
- With US$800 million in ad spend up for grabs, the 2016 upfront saw kids TV with more clout (Variety)
- Why a smaller and cheaper iPhone will help Apple appease the masses (Re/code)
- Minecraft and Oculus are a perfect pair (alistdaily)
- Netflix and Amazon want world domination, but they’re going to have to think local first (Bloomberg)
- Popcorn politics: US theater chains are banning kids under six from seeing R-rated movies (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nintendo’s Miitomo succeeds as a social network, but the jury’s still out on the app’s micro-transaction model (Financial Post)
- New York museum-goers can now take a trip inside the creative mind of children’s author Mo Willems (The New York Times)
- Now more affordable, kid-friendly 3D printers are about to go mainstream (The Wall Street Journal)
- A collective anxiety blankets China amid economic uncertainty (The New Yorker)
- Hugely popular mobile game Crossy Road is stopping traffic with a Disney collaboration (CNET)
- Instagram will start to look a lot more like parentco Facebook (Fast Company)
- Mainland China is going wild for Zootopia, which is poised to break records there (Los Angeles Times)
- With US$5.6 million in funding, Lego sets out to change the way young kids learn (The Guardian)
- Tiger Beat magazine is keeping up with a new cohort of celeb-obsessed teenyboppers (AdWeek)
- Rules of the game: Study shows how parents most effectively govern kids’ tech usage (CBC)
- Sociologists uncover pro-working-class messages among Disney’s biggest films (The Guardian)
- How do you go from internet meme to toy-selling machine? A Pusheen case study (NDTV)
- The most-followed Instagram user is no longer Taylor Swift – it’s her best friend (Mashable)
- Toys”R”Us Canada picks its newest chief play officer (CBC)
- Reports of US high school hazings are becoming more widespread (The New York Times)
- Star Wars and Jennifer Lawrence get the seal of approval at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (Business Standard)
- Minecraft to get a dose of artificial intelligence (TechCrunch)
- In the case of Netflix versus geo-unblocking companies, customers may be the ones truly losing out (CBC)
- The Song Wig music-sharing wearable from Japan has to be seen to be believed (Creativity)
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