- Thanks to a largely female leadership team, Best Buy’s transformation is paying off (Fortune)
- More TV viewing data means broadcasters are showing more patience when evaluating series’ true performances (Advertising Age)
- Staying alive in the online video world requires casting a wide net across many distribution options (Chicago Tribune)
- Bye-bye big box for Walmart? (The Wall Street Journal)
- With US$25 billion in revenue, Amazon’s most recent earnings beat analyst expectations (CNBC)
- Made for China? Hamleys, Britain’s 255-year-old toy seller, is potentially being sold to a Chinese footwear retailer (Reuters)
- Monster High movie adaptation lands The Duff director Ari Sandel (Variety)
- PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo among the top five gaming brands on Instagram (alistdaily)
- Disney kicks its Star Wars marketing campaign into high gear in China (Forbes)
- Netflix needs some serious cash in the next 12 months to fund its ambitious originals plan (Market Watch)
- From myth to reality: Nielsen’s groundbreaking total audience measurement tool that will span all platforms is almost here (AdWeek)
- Marvel deal-making is in full swing, now that an Ant-Man sequel in the works (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Even with its factories at maximum capacity, LEGO is facing a worldwide shortage heading into the holiday season (The Telegraph)
- In showing off its new virtual creations, Magic Leap takes a big step in blending physical and digital worlds (re/code)
- Comcast will unlock viewing data from the set-top boxes and streaming apps used by its subscribers – and the TV ad market could be forever changed because of it (The Wall Street Journal)
- Emojis don’t just magically appear on your phone, there’s actually a systematic process for making them pop culture-worthy (The New York Times)
- Viacom taps into the next generation of digital stars by taking a minority stake in live-events startup DigiTour Media (Variety)
- New Star Wars trailer is released and the internet implodes – again (CNN)
- Why Walmart’s minimum wage raise to US$10 could cost retailers an astounding US$4 billion (Bloomberg)
- A Greek artist is telling the story of Europe’s woes through Playmobil figurines – and the toy company isn’t so appreciative of his satire (The Guardian)
- Netflix’s global push is greeted with some pushback (The New York Times)
- Poison over play? One alarming ad campaign shows 82% of kids chose to play with a bottle of bleach over building blocks (Sydney Morning Herald)
- In the UK, record employment and stronger wage growth means consumers are spending more (The Telegraph)
- The sky isn’t even the limit when it comes to Frozen’s brand power, as one Canadian airline launches a totally Frozen-clad Boeing 737 (The Huffington Post)
- For the first time, Forbes ranks the world’s highest-paid YouTube stars. See the 13 DIY filmmakers who are cashing in (Forbes)
- Chinese web video giant Youku Tudou may get fully acquired by e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The LEGO color palette of today is far moodier than it was 40 years ago (Gizmodo)
- Even with more than 144 billion minutes of video views per month, YouTube Gaming has a long way to go to catch main rival Twitch (alistdaily)
- Thanks to China, Apple’s App Store revenue is now 80% higher than Google Play’s (TechCrunch)
- Change is in the air at Walmart – and for the retail industry at large – as the company’s stock falls by 10% (Forbes)
- With the number of TV shows soaring across the board, filmed production spend in New York City alone reaches US$8.7 billion (Variety)
- The truth behind author R.L. Stine’s scarily successful career path (Boston Globe)
- Facebook’s potential new video offering looks a lot like YouTube (Bloomberg)
- Family first: A study finds more than half of US millennial parents say their child is one of their best friends (The Washington Times)
- The future of TV may hinge on two different approaches: One that pushes the device and another that’s centered around apps (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Is gifting kids with stocks – instead of toys – a trend that’s bound to take off? (Market Watch)
- Snapchat bids farewell to original content channel as well as a number of employees (Deadline Hollywood)
- …Meanwhile, Snapchat is having a lasting impact on toy sales, as seen by Sphero’s groundbreaking marketing campaign (The Wall Street Journal)
- What Pan‘s flop at the box office will mean for fairy tale adaptations and origin stories (Variety)
- For the third year in a row, Disney surpasses the US$4-billion mark at the global box office (Los Angeles Times)
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