- With Niche acquisition, Twitter gains a sponsorship-based revenue stream (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why Mattel’s mystery product with Google needs to be a hit (The Washington Post)
- After successfully selling its Nerf products to boys and girls, Hasbro goes after high school demo (Forbes)
- Will 2015 see King Digital Entertainment broadening its portfolio? (Wall Street Journal)
- With Target out, Walmart plans massive Canadian expansion (Toronto Star)
- 2017 will be big for Disney, with the next installments of the Avengers, Star Wars and Spider-Man rolling out (Business Insider)
- Hasbro takes board games digital with new handheld Scrabble device (Mashable)
- Technical note: The top issues developers face in designing for virtual reality (gamesindustry.biz)
- Why Netflix is expanding to Cuba (Quartz)
- Sony enlists Marvel to help reinvigorate the Spider-Man franchise (Los Angeles Times)
- Meanwhile, other films in Marvel’s cinematic universe get delayed to make room for Spidey (Digital Trends)
- Study finds only 12% of protagonists were female in the top-grossing films of 2014 (Variety)
- Netflix to make first foray into Asia with fall launch in Japan (Wall Street Journal)
- Full stream ahead: Nielsen data shows streaming on the rise as TV viewership in the US dropped by 12% in January (CBC)
- YouTube tries out multi-cam option, lets viewers switch between viewing angles (TechCrunch)
- To celebrate Monopoly’s 80th anniversary, Hasbro sells game packaged with more than US$23,000 in real cash in France (Mashable)
- Teens continue to ditch Facebook and migrate to Instagram and other social sites (alistdaily)
- The force will be strong at Disney theme parks (Variety)
- How Spin Master got its groove back (Globe and Mail)
- Disney Interactive, Humble Bundle to offer pick-what-you-pay bundle offering for recent Star Wars titles (Mashable)
- UK film production spend hit an all-time high in 2014 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Target could start liquidation sales in Canada as early as this Thursday (CBC)
- Spend more, make more: Netflix’s big plan to invest in more content (Variety)
- Sony sells off MMO gamer maker Sony Online Entertainment (Forbes)
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 wins Annie Award over The Lego Movie (Variety)
- With over 100 million viewers a month, games streaming service Twitch continues to grow in popularity (alistdaily)
- These Queen of Africa dolls are outselling Barbie in Nigeria (The Independent)
- Vine star Cameron Dallas’ film Expelled heads to Netflix (Stream Daily)
- Twitter’s CEO on content discovery and helping your audience find you through all the noise (Variety)
- How a social media stunt helped Mike Mika turn #IDARB into a multiplayer game phenomenon (Wired)
- Why YouTubers like PewDiePie aren’t impressed with Nintendo’s new YouTube gaming program (Forbes)
- Crossy Road mobile game picks up US$1 million from ads (alistdaily)
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