- A light summer box office leads to lighter profits for Viacom (The Wall Street Journal)
- The translation from hit YouTube show to TV series is not as easy as it looks (The New York Times)
- Hulu Plus, other OTTs experiencing high customer churn rates (MediaPost)
- Meanwhile, the TV industry might be disrupted, but it’s alive and well (The Observer)
- Japan-bound: Netflix’s first foray into Asia is set for September 2 (Variety)
- Despite surpassing 10 million downloads, Angry Birds 2 and its in-app purchases are ruffling consumers’ feathers (Wall Street Journal)
- An interesting plug for ABC’s new Muppets series sees Kermit and Miss Piggy calling it quits (The Washington Post)
- Some small retailers are employing new tactics in order to stay afloat in the Amazon era (CNET)
- PEZ candies, in all of their glory, are headed to the big screen (Time)
- Is this an untouched market? A new social network wants its users to post unedited, unfiltered content (Springwise)
- Panorama Education, which uses surveys to understand students’ needs, just pocketed US$12 million in funding (TechCrunch)
- Gaming is mainstream, so how can marketers best reach this young, affluent consumer base? (Advertising Age)
- Playstation 4 has been good to Sony’s bottom line (re/code)
- Inside the scarily successful run of Chinese family film Monster Hunt (Los Angeles Times)
- Movie luck: The iconic Up house in Seattle may be spared from the wrecking ball (Mashable)
- Facebook says “billions” of videos are viewed each day, 75% of which are hailing from mobile devices (StreamDaily)
- Toy Talk rolls out Thomas & Friends chatty interactive app (Fast Company)
- Snapchat’s other attempt at monetization: Good old-fashioned merchandising (Digiday)
- Which territories are ripe for licensed toy sales? (Global Toy News)
- A little #TBT: Rating the top voice performances in animated films since Aladdin (Vulture)
- Netflix now making more original programming than HBO (Vulture)
- Ad sales up at Twitter, but subscriptions slowing down (AdWeek)
- Bestselling fiction author Michael Chabon tapped to write new original Disney musical (Hollywood Reporter)
- Check out this Lego-infused customizable kid-size prosthetic (Wired)
- Video app Vine comes into its own as an entertainment platform (Fast Company)
- The selfies are paying off for Instagram, which is expected to make US$595 million in mobile ad revenues this year (eMarketer)
- China lifts its 15-year video game console ban, but censorship still abounds (US News & World Report)
- Nintendo says goodbye to TVii (PC World)
- Netflix’s DVD business dwindles in subscribers but not profits – see how the company’s positioning for growth next (The New York Times)
- Tesco, the UK’s biggest grocery chain, rids its shelves of some sugary kids’ drinks (Mashable)
- Comcast looks to new media companies as it vies for a younger audience (CNET)
- The gaming geeks have won. Now what? (Los Angeles Times)
- For American teens, YouTube star power is outpacing mainstream celebrities. Variety survey reveals the year’s biggest online stars (Variety)
- Amazon rocks its second quarter with more than US$23 billion in revenue (Techcrunch)
- Cisco’s set-top box biz gets scooped up by France’s Technicolor for roughly US$600 million (Reuters)
- European regulators take on six Hollywood studios in antitrust case involving digital content consumption (Los Angeles Times)
- With a craving for connections, teen girls make wearable tech fashionably functional (Wired)
- After raising US$225 million, Jet.com takes on Amazon with a pledge to offer the lowest prices on the internet (The New Yorker)
- Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe opens a new world of LGBT representation (The Huffington Post)
- The return of tween brand Limited Too (Mashable)
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