- Disney+ film Out of My Mind wins this year’s children’s/youth Peabody Award (THR)
- Apple is prohibited from collecting fees from purchases outside its App Store (Gamesindustry.biz)
- Roku to acquire streaming bundle service Frndly TV in a US$185-million all-cash deal (Deadline)
- Marvel’s Thunderbolts made US$11.5 million in previews before opening weekend (Variety)
- Only 41% of parents read to their kids out loud, say Nielsen and HarperCollins (The Guardian)
- Common Sense Media warns that under-18s shouldn’t use AI companion apps (CNN)
- AI animation start-up Cheehoo raises US$10 million in a new funding round (CartoonBrew)
- Crunchyroll kicks off an Ani-May campaign with new partnerships and merch (Crunchyroll)
- Bluey surpasses three million books sold in the UK (Licensing.biz)
- A Minecraft Movie‘s “Steve’s Lava Chicken” is the shortest song to ever make the Billboard Hot 100 (Variety)
- Elsa voice actor Idina Menzel says she deserves royalties from Frozen costume sales (TheWrap)
- US and Canadian consumers are lowering their spending on video services, TiVo reports (Advanced Television)
- Paddington in Peru drives 8% Q1 revenue growth for Canal+ (Deadline)
- Consumer expectations experience sharpest drop since 1990 recession (CFO Dive)
- Fewer cargo shipments from China could disrupt back-to-school shopping (Forbes)
- The King of Kings surpasses Parasite as top-grossing Korean film in the US (Deadline)
- Magic Light’s The Velveteen Rabbit wins a BAFTA for Best Children’s Craft Team (BAFTA)
- Banijay Group is eyeing a potential takeover bid for ITV and ITV Studios (THR)
- How Universal could redefine retail and dining at its new UK theme park (Forbes)
- Alliance backs out of buying Diamond Comics, with more details to come on May 2 (ICv2)
- Walmart hosted an exclusive gender-reveal moment on Peppa Pig Tales today (USA Today)
- US book sales were down slightly in Q1, but the YA genre experienced a little boost (Publishing Perspectives)
- TV and film marketing bosses got together in LA yesterday to talk about reaching Gen Z (Variety)
- The EU fines Apple US$568 million for deterring third-party payments in the App Store (GamesIndustry.biz)
- Thanks to China, Imax’s box-office recovery continued in the first quarter (THR)
- Adobe has released a new version of its AI image generation tool (TechCrunch)
- New data from Virgin Media shows kids are on screens right after school (Advanced Television)
- Peacock narrowed its losses to US$215 million in Q1, hitting 41 million subscribers (Broadband TV News)
- Most teens say social media is a positive space for friendships and creativity (Pew Research)
- Netflix has released a season-two teaser for its YA hit Wednesday (Variety)
- The EU fines Apple and Meta for allegedly breaching fair competition rules (The Guardian)
- Talk about competition: More than 20 trillion videos have been uploaded to YouTube (THR)
- Chinese animated film phenom Ne Zha 2 is going global with an English dub (Variety)
- Disney has unveiled new Lilo & Stitch merch for the live-action remake (THR)
- Google is back in court today for an antitrust case that could result in it being broken up (NPR)
- A UCLA survey highlights what content teens turn to when they’re stressed (Scholars and Storytellers)
May 2, 2025
May 1, 2025
April 30, 2025
April 29, 2025
April 28, 2025
April 25, 2025
April 24, 2025
April 23, 2025
April 22, 2025
April 21, 2025
Newsletter
