- Will the graduated-response anti-piracy program do what SOPA couldn’t for Hollywood? (CNET)
- How Kinect Sesame Street TV will offer active participation for kids (The Guardian)
- Why this summer’s blockbuster Avengers film will hit the brand marketing jackpot (Chicago Tribune)
- New US study finds kids eight to 18 spend the most media time with TV, and much less with video games (Kotaku)
- Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift among the big winners at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (The Washington Post)
- Why 25 billion App Store downloads is a jumping-off point for Disney Mobile (Mac World)
- How a Facebook campaign convinces Mattel to make a hairless Barbie in support of kids with cancer (San Francisco Chronicle)
- New research by Netflix in Canada says 61% of parents want their kids to be able to choose their own programming (CNW)
- It’s official! Disney overtakes Nick in the ratings (The Huffington Post)
- How a former Atari and Hasbro exec has grown her fashion-based website for tween girls (CNN)
- New report finds Canada is 14.9% more cost-effective for digital operations than the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Watch out Apple and Google: Nokia and Microsoft make $24-million investment in mobile app research (The Toronto Star)
- Why legal trademark squatting in China could pose big problems for US retailers (Los Angeles Times)
- Measuring how consumers use iPads just got easier thanks to Disney/ABC Television Group and Nielsen (Variety)
- Will advertisers ever fully embrace the kids’ virtual world space? (Adweek)
- How Barney, Thomas, Bob, Angelina and Pingu went missing in Canada (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Viacom launches first-ever Paramount channel in deal with Spanish multimedia company Vocento (Chicago Tribune)
- Why Disney’s watching app trends carefully as it looks to grow Club Penguin and Playdom (Adweek)
- Angry Birds publisher Rovio adds another game developer to its nest (VentureBeat)
- Meanwhile, Optimus Prime loses round one in copyright infringement case with Transformer Prime (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How kidsnets are choosing the lavish upfront party approach to generate buzz (AdWeek)
- She said it would never happen, but Rowling’s Harry Potter series is now available digitally (The New York Times)
- How Disney aims to protect its social game IPs from copycats (All Things Digital)
- Meanwhile, Angry Birds Space rockets to 10 million downloads in three days (Mashable)
- Ratings for Viacom’s MTV and Comedy Central follow path of Nickelodeon’s ongoing slide (New York Post)
- What US retailing could look like in 2016, and the impact of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook (MediaPost)
- YA book market shifting from dystopian fiction (we’re looking at you, Hunger Games) to thrillers (Publishers Weekly)
- Meanwhile, could Mitt Romney’s comments drive sales of Etch A Sketch? (Bloomberg)
- Why The Hunger Games is a licensing and merchandising dream come true (Los Angeles Times)
- Stream this, the BBC teams up with Microsoft bringing the iPlayer to millions of new viewers (BBC)
- Will Disney’s recent failures be a concern for Pixar and Marvel? (Daily Finance)
- How not to get passionate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans on your side (The Hollywood Reporter)
- After three years of solid lobbying, UK government commits to tax breaks for animation producers (BBC)
- New NPD report predicts 100 million TVs will be internet-connected in North America and Western Europe by 2016 (Los Angeles Times)
- Google defends Hotfile in ongoing copyright battle with movie industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney’s John Carter expected to become one of biggest Hollywood flops ever (The Washington Post)
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