- 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)
- 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)
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