- Toys ‘R’ Us UK ditches gendered categories on its website (The Telegraph)
- Justin Bieber moves past One Direction again to break Spotify streaming record (Forbes)
- Why Gravity Falls showrunner Alex Hirsch is ending the hit Disney XD series on his own terms (Variety)
- Parents’ concerns over in-app purchasing is on the rise in the UK (Gamasutra)
- This tech will send follow-up ads to people’s phones based on the TV commercials they’re watching (Fast Company)
- Corus steps back from pay TV, following US$158-million deal that gives Bell Media exclusive rights to all HBO content (Globe and Mail)
- Are these the best child-friendly smartphones and cell phones on the market? (Digital Trends)
- Lessons in Animaniacs: How the ’90s toon had kids learning and laughing all at once (Uproxx)
- Through the use of photos, app maker Toca Boca discovers some universal themes about today’s kids (Toca Boca)
- What will life be like for Lionsgate in a post-Hunger Games world? (Bloomberg)
- Parody or progress? Mattel’s historic ad featuring a boy is making headlines, but not entirely for the right reasons (Adweek)
- YouTube’s popularity among kids brings up a host of questions for content creators and parents alike (The Guardian)
- The dinosaur craze extends to virtual reality (Engadget)
- Netflix Australia now boasts 2.5 million subscribers since launching in March (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why preschool coding classes are taking off in China (Bloomberg)
- Toys ‘R’ Us is tapping into the cat meme trend by bringing Zoomer Kitty’s popularity to the Twitterverse (Mobile Marketer)
- What Apple TV reveals about the designs of future devices (Fast Company)
- Chinese market expected to drive more than half of Walmart’s growth over the next decade (CNBC)
- It’s a month until Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuts and Hasbro is running low on toy inventory (Quartz)
- The worlds of Muppets and crumpets collide in British brand Warburtons’ new ad (Fast Company)
- When it comes to girls and STEM toys, who will be the big winners this holiday? (Fortune)
- Media companies say they are having a Netflix problem, so which will be first to forgo short-term profits for the good of the industry? (The Wall Street Journal)
- Star Wars toys deliver the force to Asian manufacturers, driving a 10.9% jump in US toy imports (Bloomberg)
- Why online videos are still king for PewDiePie and his 40 million fans (The Guardian)
- What Mark Zuckerberg knows about the future (Fast Company)
- Time Warner may be taking a stake in Hulu, valuing the streaming service at more than US$5 billion (Variety)
- YouTube’s highly anticipated music app has arrived (TechCrunch)
- Commercial break: TV nets cut back on ads in order to appease the Netflix generation (Bloomberg)
- Facebook is dabbling with disappearing messaging, a la Snapchat (Fortune)
- Thanks to Hollywood and better tech offerings, the US toy industry is about to have its strongest year in more than a decade (Business Insider)
- After shuttering its studio in Brighton, Mind Candy Founder Michael Acton-Smith says the kids game market has bottomed out (Games Industry)
- Big data or big brother? Facebook and Pinterest take algorithms to a new level (Forbes)
- The theme park industry might be growing too quickly (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The Black Friday concept is one American import that UK retailers now want to reject (Bloomberg)
- Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts the end of the PC era (Mashable)
- A brain drain on the wallet: Smart toys flood market with higher prices (CBS News)
- How happy parents are raising even happier kids in The Netherlands (The Washington Post)
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