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The Daily News for December 8, 2021

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

2022 Visions of the Future from The Insights Family

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

An Interview with Gary Symons, Editor-In-Chief of The Licensing Letter

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

Container Rates Have Fallen 4% Since Thanksgiving

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

The 2021 Hot Toy Lists and Licensing: An Analysis of the Walmart, Amazon, and Target Lists

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021

The Top 10 Toy Industry Stories of 2021

December 6, 2021December 7, 2021

The Toy Intelligencer Toy Stock Index Down 6%

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

What Is Toys “R” Us Doing?

December 2, 2021December 3, 2021

“Baby Blues” Comic Strip Summarizes the Supply Chain Chaos in One Perfect Image

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Is China Over-Reacting to Covid?

November 30, 2021December 1, 2021

3 Reasons Why Lego Wins on Amazon

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Tamagotchi Gets Smart

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

The End of Everything for $1. Dollar Tree Announces Its New Retail Price Point

November 28, 2021December 1, 2021

Toy Matchmaker: A New Service from Global Toy Experts

November 25, 2021December 1, 2021

Things Are Getting Better…Kind Of

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

The Benefits of Risky Play

November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

Holiday Toy Gift Guide with the “Toy Guy” Chris Byrne

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021

Risk: Playing War with Family and Friends

November 18, 2021November 19, 2021

Disruption Report #40: Shanghai to L.A. Spot Market Container Rate Now $9,942; Air Freight Competitive with Ocean Freight?; and Searching for a New Normal

November 17, 2021November 18, 2021

Richard Gottlieb and Chris Byrne Launch “The Toy Intelligencer”

November 16, 2021November 19, 2021

Spielwarenmesse Update: A Conversation with Christian Ulrich

November 15, 2021November 16, 2021

Precise TV Delivers Unprecedented Brand Safety and Performance You Can Trust (Ad)

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Chris Byrne and I Were There for the Toy Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

November 11, 2021November 12, 2021

True Grit

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Disruption Report #39: New Spending on Ports, bridges and highways, and Container Dwelling Times Are Down

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

Who Received the Most “The Toy of the Year” Nominations?

November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

The 1920s Are Repeating Themselves. Is that a good thing?

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

TheToy Intelligencer Hot Toy List Analysis (Amazon, Walmart, Target)

November 5, 2021November 5, 2021

American Girl Dolls Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

National Toy Hall of Fame

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021

Making Amazon Work for You, a Conversation with Ryan Rollo of Channel Key

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

Survey Results on Container Rates, Inflation and Predictions

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

The Toy Intelligencer is Now LIVE – Sign Up Today to Get November FREE!

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021

Amazon + Lego = Walmart + Netflix

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021

Disruption Report #38: 80,000 Truck Drivers Wanted, L.A. Clogged with Empty Shipping Containers, Fines In Place for Ocean Carriers Slow to Move Freight

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021

The Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone: Now powered by more than Imagination!

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

Elevators and Electricity: The Toys I Always Wanted

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Warning Sign: Some Shoppers Are Not Getting in the Christmas Spending Spirit

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

A Gamut of Games: The Sid Sackson Portal

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

Take 10: Remembering Brian Goldner

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

Disruption Report #37: 200,000 Containers Wait Off the Coast of Los Angeles, Toy Companies Return Manufacturing to China, and Cost of Air Freight At All-Time High

October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

Amazon Isn’t Playing Around When It Comes to 2021 Holiday Toy Sales

October 18, 2021

On-Line versus In-Store. The “Precise.TV” Survey Declares it a Tie

October 18, 2021October 19, 2021

The Future of the Toy Economy: My Predictions

October 18, 2021October 18, 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