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The Daily News for Monday, September 20, 2021

September 20, 2021September 20, 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 14, 2021

The Evolution of Strawberry Shortcake

September 13, 2021September 14, 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

Disruption Report #28: Another Port Closure, Reshoring and U.S. Business Calls for Cuts in Chinese Tariffs

August 15, 2021August 18, 2021

U.S. Census: People of Color Drive U.S. Population Growth. What does it means for the toy industry?

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

The Power of Collecting: Jeremy Padawer, Part 2

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

Toy Industry Inflation Survey

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

Christmas 2021, Will the Shelves Be Half Full or Half Empty?

August 9, 2021August 11, 2021

The Insights Family® Predict Christmas and Holidays 2021 Is Going to Be the Digital Advertising Tipping Point (Sponsored Ad)

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

Disruption Report #27: How Mattel and Hasbro Are Managing, U.S. Infrastructure Is a Major Obstacle, and Where Is Mexico?

August 4, 2021August 10, 2021

To Travel or Not to Travel, That Is the Question

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

Quack. Moo. Oink. Play.

August 2, 2021September 4, 2021

The Toy Industry’s Graying Sales Force; it’s a problem

July 30, 2021August 5, 2021

Counterpoint: An Indian Toy Manufacturer Responds to Richard Gottlieb

July 30, 2021July 30, 2021

The Disruption Report #26: Young People Don’t Want to Sell, Shipping By Rail Is a Problem, and the Economy Is Slowing Down

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Jazwares and The Emergence of Toy Powerhouse: Jeremy Padawer, Part 1

July 29, 2021August 3, 2021

Supply Chain Crisis; A Path to Success for Retail Managers

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

Were the Roaring 20s Inflationary?

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

Chaos Orb—Magic: The Gathering’s Wild Card

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

The Disruption Report #25: The FMC Steps In, Where Are the Trucks, and the Biggest Container Shipping Companies Are…

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

The Decline of Cash

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021

Disruption Report #24: $5,000 Freight Surcharges and Container Ship Captains Step on the Gas

July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

Industry Veteran Andy Weiner on The Toy Foundation’s Latest Initiatives and More

July 16, 2021July 19, 2021

U.S. Issues a Warning on Doing Business In Hong Kong

July 16, 2021July 20, 2021

Disruption Report #23: “The Worst Shipping Disruption Since World War II”

July 16, 2021July 20, 2021

Out with the Old and in with the… Older?

July 15, 2021September 4, 2021

The Insights Family® Launch IP INDEX™ A Ground-Breaking Way to Track & Understand IP Performance & Future Demand (Sponsored Ad)

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

Disruption Report #22: Freight at the Speed of Sound, UnVaccinated Seafarers and Dollar Tree Fights Inflation

July 13, 2021August 6, 2021

The Toys Are Coming to Life

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021

Surprise! Bricks and Mortar Retail Will Continue to Dominate E-Commerce for the Foreseeable Future

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021

Consumers Are Spending – Their Money’s Surprising Source and What It Means for the Future.

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021

Liberty’s Lighter Side

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

Disruption Report #21: Retailers cutting back on orders, Biden Admin Going After Container Shippers, and more

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

Social Media for Kids: Zigazoo is The Next Big Thing

July 7, 2021

The World’s Most Valuable Toy and Toy-Related Brands

June 30, 2021July 1, 2021

Kafka and the Lost Doll

June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

The Essential Element of Emotional Intelligence: Renée Adams on This Emerging Trend

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

Disruption Report #20: FedEx dropping customers, $100,000/day ship leasing, & Yantian is getting back to business

June 25, 2021June 28, 2021

Baby Births Are Down; how bad is it?

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

Play Adores a Vacuum

June 24, 2021

Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

Disruption Report #19: Christmas May Be a Challenge, and Some Additional Reasons for the Shipping Logjam

June 22, 2021June 23, 2021

Blowing Soap Bubbles; More Than Play

June 21, 2021June 22, 2021

Retail Competition, direct to you from the other side of the world.

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Disruption Report #18; Pallets Prices at an All-Time High, The Fed Chief Gets Humble and My Outakes from Chairman Powell’s Press Conference

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Chris Byrne, “The Toy Guy,” visits Live with Kelly and Ryan, June 16, 2021

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

Netflix Aims to Ride on the Direct-to-Consumer Boom with New Show-themed Online Shop

June 16, 2021June 17, 2021

“The Great Resignation:” Up to 40% of Workers Are Planning to Change Jobs

June 14, 2021June 22, 2021

New Generation, New Markets: The Evolution of Madame Alexander

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

Disruption Report #17: Shipping Problems Worsen, Chinese Factories Close to Preserve the Power Grid, and Inflation Continues.

June 11, 2021June 15, 2021

The Fortune 500 [Toy 28]

June 11, 2021June 16, 2021

Aww, That’s So Cute. The Japanese culture of kawaii.

June 10, 2021June 11, 2021

How Will the Toy Industry Finish 2021? Three Questions Whose Answers Will Tell Us A Lot.

June 9, 2021June 10, 2021

Disruption Report #16, Size Matters, Troubles at the Port of Yantian, and Why People Are Taking Their Time Going Back to Work

June 7, 2021July 21, 2021

This Week: Celebrating National Yo-Yo Day

June 4, 2021

Mia Galison of eeBoo: The Art of Creating Positive Play

June 4, 2021

The End of $19.99

June 4, 2021June 10, 2021

The Insights Family® Forms Partnership with InspiredConsumer (Sponsored Ad)

June 3, 2021June 10, 2021

Is It the End of “Just-In-Time”?

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

Disruption Report #15: A weaker dollar, and Chinese factories are absorbing cost increases

May 31, 2021June 1, 2021

The Canadian Toy Industry

May 27, 2021June 3, 2021

Demo Day Play?

May 27, 2021June 2, 2021

Disruption Report #14; The Labor Shortage, Entertainment vs. Toys, and Port Backups Worsen

May 24, 2021May 26, 2021

What’s Causing Price Increases and How to Manage Them

May 24, 2021May 25, 2021

Toy Companies Embrace Social Change

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

Chris Heatherly On Club Penguin, Roblox, NFTs and How Media is Evolving

May 22, 2021

Where in the World Is… StarCraft?:The Final Two Members of the World Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2021

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021

The Top 100 Brands; who do you love…or hate?

May 19, 2021May 20, 2021

Disruption Report #13; A Scarcity of Everything

May 17, 2021May 18, 2021

Global Toy Experts (Ad)

May 15, 2021May 19, 2021

Collectors vs. Speculators; When Fights Break Out

May 14, 2021May 18, 2021

2021 World Video Game Hall of Fame Spotlight: Animal Crossing and Microsoft Flight Simulator

May 13, 2021May 20, 2021

Maximizing YouTube Advertising: Precise.TV

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021