- Changing customer behaviors could signal a shift in priorities for Walmart (National Post)
- Fox evolves the interruptive ad model by giving on-demand users the option to skip ads before MasterChef Junior (Variety)
- A Disney distortion becomes art: Banksy unveils his 2.5-acre Dismaland exhibition in England (The Guardian)
- Content creators get 70% of ad revenues on Comcast’s new streaming portal – 15% more than what YouTube and Facebook offer (Wall Street Journal)
- Strong demand within signature categories like kids and style – and a whole lot of digital sales – lead to a stellar quarter for Target (Forbes)
- Google to open its next YouTube Space in India (Tech Crunch)
- LeapFrog launches its first Android tablet (Venture Beat)
- Will big brand partnerships drive Angry Birds 2′s momentum? (alistdaily)
- Netflix raises its subscription costs for new members in Europe by 10% (Variety)
- Warner Bros. is bringing Scooby-Doo back to the big screen in an animated reboot (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A ban on children’s books in Venice, Italy is laced with political undertones (The New York Times)
- Google’s name for its newest version of Android has a sticky ring to it (Mashable)
- One Direction, Taylor Swift and Fifth Harmony have big nights at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards (Entertainment Weekly)
- Amazon’s competitive work culture is depicted through more than 100 interviews with current and former employees… (The New York Times)
- …Now, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos defends his company’s corporate standards (NPR)
- If only 37% of Kickstarter projects are successfully funded, what’s driving a boom in the crowdfunded toy space? (Bloomberg Business)
- Apple TV delayed again, and stalled negotiations with content providers and network capabilities are to blame (Bloomberg)
- Innovative, emerging brands are changing the retail world – who are the big players to watch? (Forbes)
- Meanwhile, back-to-school sales have yet to spur a summer shopping frenzy as US consumers prefer to spend on experiences (The New York Times)
- Blue Sky Studios dishes on the complexity of turning 2D Peanuts into a 3D movie (The Hollywood Reporter)
- With content-rich pieces in place, Lego had 184 million engagements on its YouTube channel alone last quarter (SmartBlog)
- All work and no play? Study finds kids get three times more homework than they need (Today.com)
- Chinese animation studio Original Force opens new movie division in Hollywood (Variety)
- Angry Birds 2 hits 30 million downloads, 10 million of which are coming from China (Pocket Gamer)
- “If Alphabet is where all the fun is, why stay at Google?” These questions and more on Google’s new holding company (re/code)
- How Vine’s simplicity has helped it maintain a web audience of 100 million people per month (alistdaily)
- Bankrupt children’s charity Kids Company, with friends like Coldplay, could re-emerge following its controversial collapse (The Telegraph)
- With some help from Facebook, tween-preferred social platform Instagram moves toward targeted advertising (Business Reporter)
- Google launches Alphabet umbrella operation (Wired)
- Is Pinterest more like search than social media? Marketers are beginning to believe it is (Advertising Age)
- Criticism is inevitable in the kids entertainment space, but giving and receiving it gracefully is an art to be learned (Fast Company)
- An Australian study finds link between TV commercials and a poor diet among kids (news.com.au)
- Toca Boca’s positive financial results for 2014 show making money in children’s apps market remains tough (The Guardian)
- Fantastic Four fizzles for Fox and Marvel (The Wall Street Journal)
- Why Hulu is sticking with its weekly episode premiere strategy (Variety)
- Continued revenue declines forecast for Nickelodeon, while US kids TV ratings drop (New York Post)
- Share prices are falling at major media companies, but their head honchos aren’t worried just yet (The New York Times)
- How did it come to this? Inside Google’s potential US$6-billion antitrust fine in Europe (Bloomberg)
- Through her collaboration with GapKids, Ellen Degeneres says she’s giving girls an avenue for self-expression (Mashable)
- On the internet, attention is money. So, how much are clicks really worth? (The Atlantic)
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