- BBC's 'Make It Digital' Impact Will Last A Generation
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 13, 2015
Forget Clarkson -- the really big news from the BBC this week is "Make It Digital," which will do for today's kids what the BBC Micro did for us ba ...
- Facebook Faces Class-Action Suit For Engaging Kids In Ecommerce
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, March 12, 2015
Facebook is facing a nationwide class-action lawsuit for selling products to children without their parents’ permission. As a federal just has deemed, “A class of plaintiffs estimated in the hundre ...
- Children's Newspaper Growth
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, March 10, 2015
First News, the UK's only newspaper directly targeting children, is seeking opportunities to expand internationally after seeing strong profit growth over the past two years. It claims its print succe ...
- YouTube Music And Kids Service To Lead Fight Against Rivals
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, February 23, 2015
Streaming service Music Key and YouTube Kids app aim to counter popularity of rivals such as Google and Facebook. Music Key remains in a trial period and will be YouTube ...
- Yes, YouTube Kids, And Why Not Other App Spinoffs?
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, February 20, 2015
YouTube Kids, the new app coming Monday, is interesting in itself, but it seems it could be the start of a bigger move to create YouTube apps for lots ...
- Lego 'World's Most Powerful Brand' Study Says
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Lego has replaced luxury sports car brand Ferrari as the 'World's Most Powerful Brand', according to research from BrandFinance. The Danish toy brand scored high on a wide variety ...
- Kids Mimic Their Parents; That's Why Nickelodeon Is Jumping Online
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, January 30, 2015
The Viacom unit announced it would start a standalone Nickelodeon OTT service this year, joining HBO, CBS and more. It's simply taking its business where Nickelodeon's customers are, but i ...
- Digital Technology Is Ruining Childhood
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, January 16, 2015
That's according to a new Havas Worldwide study that reports that one in three adults say technology is destroying family life and half believe that allowing a child unrestricted acce ...
- Facebook Inserts AMBER Alerts Into News Feeds
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Strengthening its position as a public utility, Facebook will now "broadcast" AMBER Alerts to help find missing children. In partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Facebo ...
- Google Not Among Those That Signed Student Privacy Pledge
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 13, 2015
About 75 companies signed Obama's Student Privacy Pledge, but Google is not one of them. Among those that did are Apple and Microsoft. Companies signing the pledge agree not ...
- Meet The First YouTube Stars Of 2015
MAD, Steve McClellan - Friday, January 2, 2015
Fisher-Price posted a new 90-second film late on New Year's Day called "Wishes For Babies" that tracked babies being born around the world in places like Sao Paulo, Brazil, Warsa ...
- Google Suspends BabyBus Apps After FTC Warns Of Privacy Violations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 29, 2014
Google suspended the popular BabyBus apps from the PlayStore after the Federal Trade Commission warned that the Chinese-based developer appeared to be violating children's privacy laws. BabyBus, which markets doze ...
- BabyBus Suspended From Google Play After FTC Warns Of Children's Privacy Violations
Raw, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 29, 2014
The popular BabyBus apps appear to violate children's privacy laws, the Federal Trade Commission warns in a letter to the Chinese-based developer of the apps. ...
- Charitable Toy Drive Leverages Ad Agency Staffers' Lazy Selfishness
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Monday, December 15, 2014
Okay -- so this charity effort from 360i is both generously charitable as well as indicative of rampant, agency-wide, obsessive selfishness. And what sort of charitable effort could result ...
- Watchdogs Ask FTC To Investigate Social Media Campaign For Ring Pops
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
A social media campaign for The Topps Company's Ring Pops candy violated children's privacy laws, a consortium of watchdogs allege in a new complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commissio ...
- Google To Develop Child-Friendly Web And Video Services
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, December 5, 2014
With Google processing 40,000 search queries a second -- or 1.2 trillion a year -- it's a safe bet that many of those doing the Googling are kids. Little surpri ...
- Judge Refuses To Dismiss FTC Case Against Amazon
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission can proceed with a lawsuit accusing Amazon of unfairly charging parents for their children's in-app purchases, a judge in Seattle said this week. A U.S. Distri ...
- Unboxing Videos: There's Money In Those Packages
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, November 28, 2014
The surprising, unexplainable things that catch online: Like unboxing videos. A new story says there have been 1 billion views of YouTube videos showing somebody unwrapping/unboxing a toy or electroni ...
- Fisher-Price Collaborates With Shakira
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, October 29, 2014
"When we met face to face, we learned firsthand how deeply Shakira shared our commitment to early childhood development, driven by the notion that early learning can result in ear ...
- Viacom, Google Ask Judge To Dismiss Lawsuit About Tracking Cookies
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 27, 2014
Google and Viacom are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the companies of violating children's privacy rights by allegedly collecting personal data from visitors at Nick.c ...
- Generation Tap: Tiny Fingers Drive The Tablet's Best Use Case
MoBlog, Steve Smith - Monday, October 20, 2014
Tablets peaking? Well maybe. but they have already established themselves in most households as an essential part of media consumption. Your kids will tell you just how liberating these thin ...
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You?: Gaming Is The New TV
Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Monday, October 6, 2014
A half century TV tradition of Saturday morning cartoons came to an end this season. Kids have better things to do with their TV sets and tablets. Game on. ...
- Drinks Companies Agree On New Code For Marketing To Children
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, September 22, 2014
The CEOs of some of the world's leading food and non-alcoholic beverage companies, including Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Nestle, have agreed on a new policy for responsible advertising to children ...
- Maker Studios Is Totally a 'Reck'
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Maker Studios will premiere "Meet Me at the Reck" hosted by Andrew W.K. starting October 4. The "reckers" are kids who hang out at an L.A. rec center. ...
- Cartoon Doll Emporium Accused Of Violating Children's Privacy Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 8, 2014
A Web site for tween girls operated by Cartoon Doll Emporium violated children's privacy rules by allowing ad networks and other third parties to track users, the Children's Advertising Revi ...
- Nickelodeon Debuts First Animated Series Created For Online
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, August 4, 2014
“Welcome to The Wayne” is Nickelodeon’s first original animated series created exclusively for the Web and mobile, debuting on a redesigned Nick.com site and on the Nickelodeon app on Monda ...
- Labour Party Considering Junk Food Ad Watershed
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, July 17, 2014
The Labour Party is expected to publish a white paper on proposed changes to advertising rules aimed at better protecting children. One option, believed to be under serious consideration, ...
- Disney, DreamWorks Plot and Finance Online Video's Future
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, July 8, 2014
At this point, online video is so new it has no perfect model for content creators to compare themselves to. The fully immersed online video generation is being wooed ...
- How Do You Appeal To The Mobile Generation? Just Ask Moshi
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Monday, May 19, 2014
Be warned -- going mobile is not just a case of picking up a Web site and dumping it into an app maker and waiting for the end result ...
- Ex Nickelodeon, AOL Kids Exec Malcolm Bird Launches Viddiverse Site For 'Safe' Kids Vids
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Viddiverse, a safe, video site for kids 8 to 13, has premiered bringing together hundreds of professionally-created, kid-friendly videos plus elements of familiar social media destinations where kids can uplo ...
