- Can Charter do what Comcast couldn’t in its bid for Time Warner Cable? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A must-read about television’s future and the seven threats under-addressed by linear TV nets (REDEF)
- Of the top 10 highest-paid CEOs in 2014, six work in the media industry (The Boston Globe)
- With sequels outperforming original movies, Hollywood is facing an originality challenge (Variety)
- Walmart moves to buy more goods directly from factories, cutting out manufacturing giant Li & Fung (Reuters)
- How Netflix is helping to make TVs more like smartphones (Fast Company)
- Penguin to partner with YouTube creators for book projects (Stream)
- Why Disney’s most important 2015 movie isn’t Star Wars or Avengers (Forbes)
- Reese Witherspoon to produce and star in Disney’s new live-action movie Tink (Variety)
- Future is murky for Viacom and CBS, as 91-year-old Sumner Redstone remains cloistered in his mansion (Los Angeles Times)
- Pac-Man’s creator on taking inspiration from pizza and designing for both male and female audiences (TIME)
- Creepy or cute? Google patents internet-connected toys that can run the home (BBC)
- Spotify gets into video streaming game (Globe and Mail)
- Demand for mobile phones and large-screen TVs boost Best Buy’s Q1 profit in the US (Reuters)
- 3D-printing company designs dolls with birthmarks, hearing aids after #ToyLikeMe social media campaign goes viral (Huffington Post)
- Microsoft’s latest TV play for Xbox One could entice viewers to cut the cord (Multichannel News)
- Disney set to expand its presence in China with its first bricks-and-mortar store in the country (Bloomberg)
- Lego prodco Animal Logic picks Vancouver for its new animation studio (Variety)
- Will Oculus’ pre-E3 event dig deeper into its upcoming consumer hardware plans? (Tech Crunch)
- Following Target’s exit, Walmart posts higher sales in Canada for Q1 (Globe and Mail)
- FAO Schwarz to close flagship New York store in July (CBC)
- Why YouTube had to become a better video site to rival HBO, Netflix (Fast Company)
- As more consumers shift to streaming media, demand continues to rise for OTT services (TechCrunch)
- YouTube Kids under fire as watchdog groups catalog all the grown-up content found using the app’s search function (The Guardian)
- Entertainment consolidation volume slows down in Q1, but mega-deals stay strong (Variety)
- Netflix’s Sarandos in the hot seat in Cannes over subsidies, Weinstein plays “bodyguard” (Deadline)
- YouTube Spaces’ new Field Day channel features unique docs by popular YouTube creators (Video Ink)
- With its moves into the theme park and toy biz, is Nintendo building a Disney-like ecosystem? (Bloomberg)
- Netflix gets more aggressive in pursuit of global exclusive deals (Variety)
- Getting a peek at DC’s focus on female superheroes: CBS offers fans a preview of Supergirl (Mashable)
- Why Walmart still has far to go to compete with Amazon Prime (AdAge)
- Research finds food commercials during US kids shows don’t meet 2011 guidelines (Reuters)
- For all those adults wondering just how Sodor runs, an in-depth look at the Island’s economy and its workers, Thomas & Friends (NPR)
- Australian Government set to launch controversial “Netflix Tax” (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bricks-and-mortar video game retailers feel the heat from digital downloads (Huffington Post)
- Nestle, Google partner on limited edition KitKat bar in the UK, renamed a “YouTube Break” (The Independent)
- For the first time ever, the US pay-TV industry lost customers in the normally strong first quarter (Variety)
- Analysts find Lego more profitable than both Hasbro and Mattel (Business Insider Australia)
- Toca Boca on capturing the digital kids market and its foray into video content (The Telegraph)
- Digital execs break down current trends and offer their likes, dislikes and desires at the Digital NewFronts (The Hollywood Reporter)
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