- Facebook bringing virtual reality to mobile devices, sans headgear? (Wall Street Journal)
- Cartoon Network picks up two Creative Emmys for Over the Garden Wall and Adventure Time (Variety)
- How Universal Studios’ digital marketing helped it have its best-ever year at the box office (Fast Company)
- Disney not moving to OTT anytime soon, COO Tom Staggs tells investors (The Wrap)
- The holidays are set to the make the lucrative toys-to-life category more viable than ever (The Guardian)
- Disney’s Star Wars-themed resort park lands are slated to break ground in 2016 (Los Angeles Times)
- Pitching 101: The early pitch decks of YouTube, BuzzFeed and Airbnb are packed with some valuable takeaways (Fast Company)
- The discussion surrounding kids’ mobile addictions continues (CBC)
- Playmobil follows Lego’s lead onto the big screen in a new US$80-million feature film (The Guardian)
- Apple’s iPhone manages to break all the rules without taking many new risks (The New York Times)
- In partnership with Google’s Niantic Labs, Nintendo finally enters the mobile-gaming market with location-based Pokemon (Venture Beat)
- Piece of cake? PewDiePie becomes the first person with more than 10 billion YouTube views (Games Industry)
- Asia on its mind: After a launch in Japan, Netflix sets sights on Southeast Asia (TechCrunch)
- How ticketer Fandango has successfully transitioned to a movie-themed content hub focused on families (Variety)
- Are gender-neutral toys empowering? Science says yes (Quartz)
- Study shows kids would rather learn to code than to speak a foreign language (Computer Weekly)
- Watch out DailyMotion, YouTube’s launching a production studio in Paris (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Success of Raving Rabbids theme park drives Ubisoft further into attractions biz (Variety)
- Marvel’s first native American superhero Red Wolf to get his own comic book
- Teletubbies shared a post-capitalist existence? Reviewers cast an adult eye on classic Brit kids series (The Guardian)
- Local TV stations create hurdle for streaming services in US (Wall Street Journal)
- US shoppers’ 50 favorite online stores (National Retail Federation)
- With Minecraft guide books leading the pack, kids non-fiction publishing is having a moment (Publishers Weekly)
- For those of who can’t wait until the September 9 reveal, here are Apple’s rumored new products (Fast Company)
- Preschool for robots – for real (Bloomberg)
- Why BB-8 may be the Star Wars toy consumers are looking for this holiday season (Wall Street Journal)
- TV nets including Disney and Viacom launch new coalition to measure kids video viewing habits… (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, a third of all TV and video viewing is now watched on-demand (Digital TV Europe)
- Is depriving kids of toys a healthy idea? (The Guardian)
- Spielberg’s DreamWorks is parting with Disney, paving the way for a potential distribution deal with Universal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Australian kids go bananas over ABC’s Curious George cancellation (Mashable)
- Breaking down the effectiveness of long-form, short-form and live-streaming video for Millennials (alistdaily)
- How the digital revolution is changing the way young talent agents do business (Variety)
- Apple reportedly exploring original programming move with an eye on long-form content (Variety)
- In its latest move against Netflix, Amazon Prime Video makes offline viewing a reality (CNET)
- Marvel Studios undergoes a command shakeup (Deadline)
- Study finds nearly half of UK kids are bullied every day (Irish Examiner)
- With as many as 400 scripted shows hitting the US this year, is there simply too much on television? (The New York Times)
- Swift, West, Cyrus: The MTV VMA’s recapped (CNN)
- Slapstick sells: Minions surpasses the $1-billion mark at the worldwide box office (Variety)
- What it’s like to be on banned book lists, according to Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey (The Guardian)
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