- Target is pulling out of Canada after expansion fails (The Globe and Mail)
- Children’s print book sales rose 9.1% in 2014, but the rest of the market continues to decline (The Guardian)
- A shoe-in no more, Oscar snubs The Lego Movie (Variety)
- How New York-based indie distributor GKIDS is poised to claim more animated feature Oscars (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bitsbox Kickstarter project sends monthly shipment of coding boxes (TechRepublic)
- How SVODs are changing the way we consume our media (NPR)
- Paddington Bear gets his long-awaited time on the big screen (Cinema Blend)
- Good news for Microsoft: Minecraft Pocket Edition pulls in 30 million downloads (alistdaily)
- Is the kids biz next? Cablenet programming budgets up 13% to US$31 billion, as competition for viewers and fresh ideas grows (New York Times)
- Sony, Disney and DreamWorks seek rejection of anti-poaching lawsuit (Variety)
- An SVOD approach to TV strategy (Bloomberg)
- From iPhone to arcade game: Flappy Bird flies to new formats (Mashable)
- How this year’s Golden Globes reflects the changing face of TV (Variety)
- DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon 2 earns surprise Golden Globes win over The Lego Movie (Cinema Blend)
- Why Netflix is becoming the new cable for millennials (Cartt.ca)
- Nintendo powers off direct sales in Brazil (Wall Street Journal)
- Scholastic study finds reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood results in more frequent reading for fun (The New York Times)
- Pixar alums’ animated short lands a spot on the Oscar shortlist (Hollywood Reporter)
- To offset the falling Loonie, Apple raises app prices in Canada (Financial Post)
- Facebook’s number of video posts per person has spiked 75% globally in just one year (The Guardian)
- The YouTube aesthetic: The video-sharing site is infiltrating TV (Stream Daily)
- For the future of pick-and-pay cable look no further than the airline business (New York Times)
- According to Apple, app sales jumped 50% in 2014 (Wall Street Journal)
- CES 2015: Tracking the kids has never been more of a reality (brandchannel.com)
- Storytelling, coding play into kids app trends for 2015 (The Guardian)
- Can YouTube maintain its top spot? (Stream Daily)
- Disney’s CFO on the company’s strategy for movie franchises (The Hollywood Reporter)
- New art-based website lets anyone get creative with emoji (Fast Company)
- SpongeBob, Batman, Mario, Pac-Man, and The Smurfs among classic characters featured in McDonald’s new animated ad (AdAge)
- Netflix endorses TV sets optimized for streaming (Variety)
- Razer unveils Android-based micro-console and VR headset at CES (Tech Crunch)
- With 4K and Quantum, 2015 could be the year to replace the TV set (Wall Street Journal)
- Toy unboxing, PewDePie continue to top viewing lists on YouTube (The Guardian)
- Disney gets Maker to craft Star Wars online series (Bloomberg)
- CES 2015: Wearables, the Internet of Things, drones and VR get early buzz (CNET)
- How Ireland’s new TV and film tax incentives will attract more big budget Hollywood productions (Irish Independent)
- Netflix cracks down on out-of-country access (Variety)
- The woman behind Nick’s golden age of animation (Huffington Post)
- Zynga gets into licensing with Looney Tunes-branded endless runner game (VentureBeat)
- The top toy brands winning at social media for the holiday shopping season (AdWeek)
- Parents may be having too much fun with Elf on the Shelf. Happy holidays everyone! (Mashable)
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