- First-time upfronts from Netflix, Amazon and YouTube put focus on streaming ad (Deadline)
- Sesame Workshop writers ratify their new five-year labor contract (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix teen drama Heartstopper wins kids & family GLAAD Media Award (Variety)
- Indian streamer JioCinema launches an anime hub to meet rising demand (Digital TV Europe)
- Amazon-backed startup Anthropic to let kids to use its generative AI systems, under certain conditions (Tech Crunch)
- This year’s Peabody Award winners include BBC Studios’ Bluey (Variety)
- Nearly 300 filmmakers back Cannes workers calling for strike action (THR)
- FilmSharks snaps up international rights to A Hero’s Journey to the West (Deadline)
- Microsoft will launch its first-party mobile game app store in July (TechCrunch)
- A new report estimates Disney’s Wish lost more than US$130 million (Cartoon Brew)
- Roblox jumps to more than 77 million active daily users in Q1 (Gamesindustry.biz)
- MrBeast breaks up with talent agency Night to centralize his business (Bloomberg)
- How streaming giants are putting linear TV on the ropes at this year’s upfronts (THR)
- TikTok plans to start labelling AI-generated content on the platform (Reuters)
- Tencent hunts for international partners for its teen/YA shows (Cartoon Brew)
- Microsoft’s Xbox division shutters four of its game studios (Gamesindustry.biz)
- Demand for kids content is high, but streamers aren’t meeting it (TVREV)
- Breaking down Wall Street’s fascination with online influencers (THR)
- Netflix has started production on Wednesday season two in Ireland (Variety)
- Nintendo will unveil a successor to its Switch console by March 2025 (THR)
- Amazon is rolling out three new interactive ad formats on Prime Video (Deadline)
- WBD strikes deal with Canal+ to launch Max in France and Poland in June (DTVE)
- The Garfield Movie does US$22 million in its international box office debut (Variety)
- VFX giant DNEG is set to eliminate 5% of its global workforce in a new wave of layoffs (Deadline)
- Cannes Film Festival workers call for strike action over French labor law reforms (THR)
- Nintendo takes action to shut down Switch game piracy through Yuzu (Gamesindustry.biz)
- Sony and Apollo float a US$26-billion all-cash offer for Paramount Global (WSJ)
- Sonic spinoff Knuckles is the most-watched original show on Paramount+ right now (Variety)
- New survey says 92 minutes is the ideal movie length for American audiences (The Wrap)
- Apple lets indie developers in the EU off the hook for its Core Technology Fee (The Verge)
- Anime streamer Crunchyroll stages its first price hike in five years (Variety)
- Dan Schneider files a defamation suit against Quiet on the Set‘s producers (Deadline)
- Mattel’s long-awaited Masters of the Universe pic to premiere June 5, 2026 (THR)
- Revisiting 25 years of SpongeBob SquarePants history with NPR (NPR)
- Paramount’s stock tumbled after Bob Bakish’s ousting (Variety)
- LinkedIn’s new effort to keep people on the site is…games (TechCrunch)
- SEL learning strategies don’t work for every kid, but there’s an alternative that does (EdSurge)
- Cannes Film Fest staff are planning to protest during the event over pay (Deadline)
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