- YouTube ad growth has big impact on Google’s second quarter earnings (The Guardian)
- Lego’s brick-by-brick blueprint for success (The Globe and Mail)
- Apple not doing enough to stop kids from racking up bills for in-app purchases (Business Insider)
- Facebook tests feature for users to buy products directly from ad (The Wall Street Journal)
- Lions Gate and Alibaba join forces to bring Hunger Games to Chinese market (National Post)
- Why Amazon may launch a subscription eBook service for binge-reading (Wired)
- After announcing a female Thor, Marvel’s next Captain America will now be black and Iron Man gets a makeover (Mashable)
- China’s state media watchdog threatens to shut down seven IPTV services for streaming Hollywood content (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Domestic animation features help boost China’s animation revenue to US$14 billion in 2013 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why 76 years ago, the NY Times thought Disney would be the future of the economy (The Atlantic)
- Millennials’ love for Instagram is changing traditional advertising (MediaPost)
- How Netflix rules Australia (Mashable)
- First it was Apple, now Amazon’s in hot water with the FTC over alleged profiting from kids’ in-app purchases (The Wall Street Journal)
- DreamWorks Animation retools Turbo Fast site to get kids on Netflix (Variety)
- Cartoonist, author and long-time Kidscreen contributor Jim Benton talks animation, inspiration and life hacks (The Detroit News)
- The zombie effect: Close to 80% of apps in the App Store see low downloads (Mashable)
- Animation Guild to review new report on supposed ‘no poaching’ agreements between Disney and DreamWorks Animation (Variety)
- Say what? Social network pops up with no members and a US$4 billion valuation (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix earns a whopping 31 Emmy nominations (Mashable)
- Kids watching fewer music videos on TV leads to cuts at Bell Media (The Globe and Mail)
- Report finds that parents should be limiting kids’ screen time to no more than two hours a day (CBS)
- Disney’s Dumbo will fly again, this time in live-action (Variety)
- Smartphone shopping won’t kill brick-and-mortar stores: study (Venture Beat)
- New report puts YouTube revenue at US$3.5 billion in 2013 (Mashable)
- DreamworksTV on a mission to be the go-to site for kids ages six to 11 (Adweek)
- Harry Potter resurfaces as a now 34-year-old wizard in brand new short story on JK Rowling’s Pottermore website (The Guardian)
- Google goes after Amazon market (Re/code)
- King Digital readies latest game: Candy Crush Soda Saga (Wall Street Journal)
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