- Without a middle class, department stores would have died anyways, but Amazon and the pandemic gave them a push (Recode)
- Quibi is officially dead…will we even remember it? (Variety)
- The impact of this year on business travel isn’t temporary—36% of work trips could be gone forever (Wall Street Journal)
- A psychologist has been using music to help kids cope with stress (CNN)
- Croods 2 surpassed box office expectations in the US…but it wasn’t a big weekend (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bowing to pressure, Netflix will begin declaring its revenues in the UK (TBI Vision)
- …Meanwhile, the UK government will let small shops stay open 24/7 to make up for the lockdown (Evening Standard)
- The Mandalorian, the Avengers and Stranger Things are the top entertainment franchises (Variety)
- Alibaba and Tencent are looking at buying iQIYI, but costs and regulations are giving them pause (Digital TV Europe)
- England lays out its cinema re-opening strategy (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, a “winner takes all” techco mentality has motivated the UK to regulate competition (Tech Crunch)
- Without features like follower counts and comments, Snapchat’s TikTok competitor won’t get far (AdWeek)
- Disney ups its anticipated layoffs to 32,000 in the first half of 2021 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Ryan’s World landed the first YouTuber float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade (Adweek)
- What did TikTok do right and wrong? Here’s a timeline (Tech Crunch)
- As their importance grows, toy drives are having trouble adapting to the pandemic (Marketplace)
- Which big names have made a splash in the G-rated space this year? (Variety)
- Kidcos are teaching streamers to adopt a non-exclusive approach to content (Financial Times)
- Netflix spent a record-breaking US$1 billion on production in the UK this year (TBI Vision)
- ViacomCBS is selling its Simon & Schuster publishing unit to the owner of Penguin Random House (Variety)
- Amazon is trying new ways to fight counterfeiters by helping businesses trademark their IPs (Tech Crunch)
- Disney+ will exclusively premiere Taylor Swift’s new concert film (Toronto Star)
- Arts organizations are transforming into media companies to weather the pandemic (Variety)
- Growing kidtech company Kahoot is acquiring language-learning startup Drops (Tech Crunch)
- A number of major UK distributors are teaming up to launch a virtual screening event (Deadline)
- How My Little Pony reached across the toy aisle and broke all of the gendered CP rules (Polygon)
- Cineworld locks down US$750 million in extra liquidity to help weather the pandemic (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix has racked up 35 nominations at the Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards, with quite a few going to its kids content (Deadline)
- Snapchat will dish out more than US$1 million to creators daily in its bid to take on TikTok (Variety)
- Baby Yoda could be coming to a room near you, as Google launches a Mandalorian AR app (Engadget)
- Don’t forget! Today is the last day to fill out our Kids Industry Survey
- Universal and theater chain Cineplex have signed a premium VOD deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ViacomCBS has unveiled its post-COVID WFH model (Variety)
- The future is public: Roblox is looking to become a public company to increase profits (Tech Crunch)
- HBO is testing a theatrical/streaming day-and-date release strategy for some of its upcoming flicks (Variety)
- ViacomCBS has been hit with another round of layoffs (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Tencent Music is looking to bring a wave of virtual concerts to China (TechCrunch)
- Kahoot is launching an educational game subscription service to support kids learning at home (Engadget)
- The next gen of exec talent: 35 rising stars under 35 in the entertainment industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok is rolling out new parental controls for teens (Tech Crunch)
- One bright spot for retail this year is toys, which are flying off the shelves (CTV News)
- Want to get into an elite kindergarten? The key is being proficient on Zoom…at age four (Bloomberg)
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