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The Daily News for Friday, October 15, 2021

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

Streaming Wars: Netflix Fires Back At Amazon With Walmart Merchandise Deal

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

Disruption Report #36: Container Prices Decline, Ports to Stay Open 24/7, and Cyclone Hits Port of Yantian

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

Farewell, Brian Goldner, We Will Miss You

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

007: Licensed to Play

October 12, 2021

Toy Industry Inflation Survey – October 2021

October 12, 2021October 11, 2021

California Mandates Gender Neutral Toy Departments. Here’s What I Think.

October 11, 2021October 12, 2021

An Interview with Daniel Shapiro on Protecting Your Brand from Counterfeits

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021

Parading Through History

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021

Jennifer Caveza: Otis College Prepares the Next Generation of Toy People

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021

Inflation 2022: The Pricing Problem

October 5, 2021October 7, 2021

Disruption Report #35: The end of “everything’s a dollar,” inflation here to stay for a while, and a big year for gift cards.

October 3, 2021October 6, 2021

E-Commerce Is Shaping the Way Customers Shop for Toys

October 1, 2021October 4, 2021

Everyone’s a Winner!

September 30, 2021October 4, 2021

LEGO sales and profit reach record highs cementing its position as one of the winners of the COVID-19 pandemic

September 30, 2021October 6, 2021

Power Cut-Offs in China Put More Heat on the Toy Industry

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

The First-Ever Toys & Games Report from The Insights Family Demonstrates Big Changes For Q2

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

The Disruption Report #34: Americans Don’t Understand the Supply Chain, an Attempt to Warm Chinese and American Business Relationships, and Chinese Port Backups

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

Revisiting Spiromania

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

How Children Consume Digital Entertainment #2

September 24, 2021September 24, 2021

Can Teachers Influence Toy Purchases? [Ad]

September 24, 2021September 27, 2021

Funko Games & Reuben Klamer: An Interview with Deirdre Cross of Funko Games and Remembering Reuben Klamer

September 23, 2021

Board Game Prototypes and a Gift of Clank!

September 23, 2021September 28, 2021

McDonald’s Is Moving to Green Plastic Toys in Happy Meals. Is it the Beginning of the End for Petroleum Based Toys?

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

The Disruption Report #33: Big Box Retailers Fight for Inventory while Small Retailers Struggle; Ports to Stay Open 24 Hours & China to the U.S. is Now 71 Days

September 20, 2021September 21, 2021

Can a Computer Blunder?

September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

How Lego’s Monkie Kid Deal with Amazon Could Change Toy Licensing

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

83% of All 2021 Investment Dollars Go to Trading Card Companies.

September 15, 2021September 20, 2021

How Children Consume Digital Entertainment

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

Jim Pressman Talks About a Lifetime of Play & Being Named to the Toy Industry Hall of Fame

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

Remembering Reuben Klamer

September 14, 2021September 17, 2021

Disruption Report #32: A Freeze on Some Freight Rates, Exorbitant Profits for Ocean Freighters, and Mexico and America Meet About Trade

September 13, 2021September 22, 2021

The Evolution of Strawberry Shortcake

September 13, 2021September 25, 2021

Who to Sell to Macy’s or Toys R Us? An Answer.

September 10, 2021September 13, 2021

Dolly Dingle Visits the Museum: Early 20th-Century Paper Dolls as Socially Active Objects

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Laugh Until You Cry: A Funny and Uncomfortably Accurate Look at the Coming Christmas Shopping Season

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Trends in the Baby Business: An Interview with Rob Gardner of Joovy

September 7, 2021

Build, Connect, Play

September 2, 2021September 4, 2021

Disruption Report #31: The Government Gets Involved, Port of L.A. Sets New Record for Backups and What the Restrictions on American Travel to Europe Really Mean

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021

Marketing Through Schools with MIR (Ad)

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021

Toy Inflation By the Numbers

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021

Hurricane Ida Could Mean Much Higher Plastic Prices

August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

Disruption Report #30: Chinese Labor Shortages, and Dollar Tree Is the Inflation Canary in the Coal Mine

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

Toy Trends: China and the U.S.

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Persistence of Children’s Play

August 26, 2021September 4, 2021

How to Become the Next “It” Toy by Aligning with Schools and Preschools (Ad)

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

Counterfeit Toys Are Too Common on E-Commerce Platforms. Lawmakers Have an Opportunity to Act.

August 26, 2021August 27, 2021

Industry Update: An Interview with Steve Pasierb of the Toy Association

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021

The Disruption Report #29: FedEx Surcharges, Walmart Charters Entire Container Ships, and Chinese and U.S. Ports Back Up Continues

August 20, 2021August 25, 2021

Industry Events on Global Toy News

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021

Toys “R” Us Rises from the Dead. Second Time in Four Years.

August 20, 2021August 24, 2021

A Vote for Barbie

August 19, 2021September 4, 2021

A Salesperson’s Response to “The Toy Industry’s Graying Sales Force”

August 16, 2021August 16, 2021

Baby Steps Are Not Enough Against Climate Change

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021