- Public Consultation Due On 'Junk Food' Advertising To Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, September 29, 2015
The body responsible for setting UK advertising rules is to launch a public consultation that will evaluate whether a ban on advertising junk food to children online, in the pres ...
- BBC To Launch IPlayer For Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, September 28, 2015
The BBC is looking to launch an iPlayer dedicated solely to children. The app, which will be available on Android and iOS, will be designed to supplement and unify Cbeebi ...
- Awesomeness Launches Marketing Arm
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, September 28, 2015
AwesomenessTV, has tapped Margaret Czeisler to lead Wildness as chief strategy officer. She was recently a global vice president at the digital agency Razorfish. ...
- FTC: Most Kids' Apps Fall Short On Privacy Disclosures
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 4, 2015
Developers of childrens' apps are improving their privacy disclosures, but most apps for kids still fall short, according to the Federal Trade Commission. ...
- Cox Launches Flare Kids for Child-Friendly Content
Around the Net In Publishing, Erik Sass - Monday, August 31, 2015
Cox Communications is launching a new app, Flare Kids, that is designed to help families find popular, child-friendly video content online, the company announced this week. ...
- Why Not A Pay PBS App?
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, August 14, 2015
HBO's five-year deal for "Sesame Street" - with those episodes to be seen on PBS later -hits some people as elitist: It's taking a show designed for poor kids ...
- Parents Give Preferential Tech Treatment To Boys
Mobile Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Parents are creating a digital divide between young boys and girls, new research suggests. American moms and dads are 30% more likely to let their sons choose their own app ...
- "Sesame Street" Now Takes A Turn To HBO, Online
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, August 13, 2015
HBO has licensed the next five years of the venerated educational children's show, which has been a public television staple since 1969. Those new episodes will be provided, for fre ...
- ITV Takes Stake In Channel Mum
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, August 12, 2015
ITV has taken a stake in Channel Mum, a YouTube network looking to make stars of British "mummy vloggers". The broadcaster has taken a minority stake in the fledgling ventu ...
- Cricket Media Joins Magzter
Around the Net In Publishing, Erik Sass - Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Cricket Media, an educational media company and learning network, has entered into a distribution deal with Magzter, a global digital newsstand. ...
- Children's YouTube Channel Hits Top 5 Position And Launches Toy Range
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, August 10, 2015
Fresh from overtaking Ed Sheeran, the BBC and X Factor in YouTube's all-time video views chart, children's nursery rhymes channel Little Baby Bum is moving into the toys market. I ...
- Children Watching Less TV, More YouTube
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, August 6, 2015
Children are watching less broadcast television as they turn to online activities and services such as YouTube, according to Ofcom's latest Communications Market Report. The number of minutes of ...
- Your Baby May Be Addicted To Computer Games
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Pediatricians worldwide are worried about how much, and how early, kids are playing computer games and spending time online. It's the subject of a new PBS documentary, "Web Junkie" ne ...
- PewDiePie Makes So Much Because A New Generation Bored With TV
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, July 6, 2015
It would seem PewDiePie is still doing quite well. In fact, according to new data reported by GameSpot.com, it appears that last year, the Swedish YouTube host made $7.5 milli ...
- MTV Rebrands, Embraces User Instagram And Vine Content
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, June 25, 2015
MTV International is rebranding, changing its slogan from 'I Want My MTV" to "I Am My MTV" as it introduces a raft of new features allowing social media influencers a ...
- Harlem Globetrotters' Site Violated Children's Privacy Guidelines, BBB Says
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Harlem Globetrotters has agreed to change its method of collecting information from newsletter subscribers, a unit of the Better Business Bureau said this week. The basketball exhibition team's W ...
- Kids TV Is The Latest Pay TV Battleground
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, June 15, 2015
The Clangers, which returns to the BBC today, are the latest salvo in a fierce battle for younger viewers between the BBC, Sky, Netflix and beyond, stretching from the ...
- Porn Ad Banned After Appearing On Children's App
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, June 11, 2015
A sexually explicit ad for a pornography Web site has been banned after it appeared on an app for children. Young children were confronted by the banner ad for t ...
- Lego Set To Launch Minecraft Rival
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Lego looks set to clash with Microsoft's world-building game Minecraft upon the impending release of its blocky adventure game, "Lego Worlds." The Danish toy brand, known for sparking the imaginatio ...
- Mumsnet Job Site Launches With High-Profile Partners
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, May 18, 2015
Tesco, Barclays and Deloitte are among the launch partners for Mumsnet Jobs, a new job site from the parenting network to showcase family-friendly career opportunities. The site was launched am ...
- Student Privacy Bill Introduced In House
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Luke Messer (R-Ind.) introduced the “Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015,” which would prohibit operators of websites, apps and other online servic ...
- Make YouTube Kids Subject To FTC Ad Rules, Group Says
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, based in Boston, has urged the FTC to subject the same federal rules on deceptive advertising it applies to TV to the Internet, to ...
- Labour Commits To Unhealthy Food Marketing Curbs For Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Labour has reiterated a previous pledge by shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to tackle heavily marketed unhealthy food products, as it set out the plans in its official party manifes ...
- Robinsons Encourages Parents To Play With Their Kids
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Robinsons has launched a campaign that encourages parents to play with their children. The campaign, called "They Grow up Fast, Play Thirsty," has been created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty. ...
- 'Boomerang Boarders' Create Huge Opportunities For UK Marketers
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, April 10, 2015
The lack of affordable homes is holding young people back from owning property, but it is also creating new groups who live with affluent parents and have low outgoings alongsi ...
- YouTube Kids Will Have To Be Clearer If Launched In UK
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The YouTube Kids app, available in the U.S., has caused a coalition of consumer and children advocacy groups to urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate advertising on the ap ...
- YouTube Kids User-Generated Content Accusations At Heart Of Unfair Practices
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Several consumer groups are speaking out about the way that Google's new YouTube Kids app intermingles commercial and user-generated content with entertainment geared for children, and say some of t ...
- Advocates Challenge YouTube App For Children
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Google's YouTube Kids app hasn't been live for two months yet, and it has already sparked a request for a privacy investigation. A coalition of watchdogs today asked the Feder ...
- Mattel Making Wi-Fi-Enabled Barbie
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, March 30, 2015
Mattel is developing a Wi-Fi-enabled Barbie that will be able to analyze childrens’ speech and respond with relevant answers. For the new Hello Barbie, the brand is relying on ToyTa ...
- McDonald's Calls For Kids To Find Out More About Marketing
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, March 23, 2015
Young people should be given the opportunity to understand marketing, says McDonald's marketing manager for families, Marie Emery. At an event designed to enable young people to interact with brand ...
