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- The Disruption Report #26: Young People Don’t Want to Sell, Shipping By Rail Is a Problem, and the Economy Is Slowing Down
- Jazwares and The Emergence of Toy Powerhouse: Jeremy Padawer, Part 1
- The Daily News for
Thursday, July 29, 2021 - Supply Chain Crisis; A Path to Success for Retail Managers
- Were the Roaring 20s Inflationary?
- Chaos Orb—Magic: The Gathering’s Wild Card
- The Disruption Report #25: The FMC Steps In, Where Are the Trucks, and the Biggest Container Shipping Companies Are…
- The Decline of Cash
- Disruption Report #24: $5,000 Freight Surcharges and Container Ship Captains Step on the Gas
- Industry Veteran Andy Weiner on The Toy Foundation’s Latest Initiatives and More
- U.S. Issues a Warning on Doing Business In Hong Kong
- Disruption Report #23: “The Worst Shipping Disruption Since World War II”
- Out with the Old and in with the… Older?
- The Insights Family® Launch IP INDEX™ A Ground-Breaking Way to Track & Understand IP Performance & Future Demand (Sponsored Ad)
- Disruption Report #22: Freight at the Speed of Sound, UnVaccinated Seafarers and Dollar Tree Fights Inflation
- The Toys Are Coming to Life
- Surprise! Bricks and Mortar Retail Will Continue to Dominate E-Commerce for the Foreseeable Future
- Consumers Are Spending – Their Money’s Surprising Source and What It Means for the Future.
- Liberty’s Lighter Side
- Disruption Report #21: Retailers cutting back on orders, Biden Admin Going After Container Shippers, and more
- Social Media for Kids: Zigazoo is The Next Big Thing
- The World’s Most Valuable Toy and Toy-Related Brands
- Kafka and the Lost Doll
- The Essential Element of Emotional Intelligence: Renée Adams on This Emerging Trend
- Disruption Report #20: FedEx dropping customers, $100,000/day ship leasing, & Yantian is getting back to business
- Baby Births Are Down; how bad is it?
- Play Adores a Vacuum
- Jerry Lawson, Video Soft, and the History of the First Black-Owned Video Game Development Company
- Disruption Report #19: Christmas May Be a Challenge, and Some Additional Reasons for the Shipping Logjam
- Blowing Soap Bubbles; More Than Play
- Retail Competition, direct to you from the other side of the world.
- Disruption Report #18; Pallets Prices at an All-Time High, The Fed Chief Gets Humble and My Outakes from Chairman Powell’s Press Conference
- Chris Byrne, “The Toy Guy,” visits Live with Kelly and Ryan, June 16, 2021
- Netflix Aims to Ride on the Direct-to-Consumer Boom with New Show-themed Online Shop
- “The Great Resignation:” Up to 40% of Workers Are Planning to Change Jobs
- New Generation, New Markets: The Evolution of Madame Alexander
- Disruption Report #17: Shipping Problems Worsen, Chinese Factories Close to Preserve the Power Grid, and Inflation Continues.
- The Fortune 500 [Toy 28]
- Aww, That’s So Cute. The Japanese culture of kawaii.
- How Will the Toy Industry Finish 2021? Three Questions Whose Answers Will Tell Us A Lot.
- Disruption Report #16, Size Matters, Troubles at the Port of Yantian, and Why People Are Taking Their Time Going Back to Work
- This Week: Celebrating National Yo-Yo Day
- Mia Galison of eeBoo: The Art of Creating Positive Play
- The End of $19.99
- The Insights Family® Forms Partnership with InspiredConsumer (Sponsored Ad)
- Is It the End of “Just-In-Time”?
- Disruption Report #15: A weaker dollar, and Chinese factories are absorbing cost increases
- The Canadian Toy Industry
- Demo Day Play?
- Disruption Report #14; The Labor Shortage, Entertainment vs. Toys, and Port Backups Worsen
- What’s Causing Price Increases and How to Manage Them
- Toy Companies Embrace Social Change
- Chris Heatherly On Club Penguin, Roblox, NFTs and How Media is Evolving
- Where in the World Is… StarCraft?:The Final Two Members of the World Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2021
- The Top 100 Brands; who do you love…or hate?
- Disruption Report #13; A Scarcity of Everything
- Global Toy Experts (Ad)
- Collectors vs. Speculators; When Fights Break Out
- 2021 World Video Game Hall of Fame Spotlight: Animal Crossing and Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Maximizing YouTube Advertising: Precise.TV
- Disruption Report #12: Container Rates to Return to a “Higher Normal” in 2022
- There Is a Fourth Pillar Of Retail, and It Is a Big Deal – Crowdfunding
- Take 10: Potential Implications for The Toy Biz from Declining Birthrates
- The Power of the “PANK”: Melanie Notkin of Savvy Auntie
- Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Five Below and Family Dollar Are Taking Over Retail
- Reflections on the World Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2021
- Average U.S. Fertility Rate Lowest Since 1930s
- Top Toy Companies Use Granular POS and Inventory Data, Do You? (Ad)
- The Power of Audio: Drew Vernon of Tonies
- Disruption Report #11: Container Prices Are Rising…Again
- The Economy is On the Comeback, but the “Baby Bust” Persists. What it means for the toy industry.
- The Life-Changing Magic of Sewing and Barbie
- The Savvy Auntie Speaks on How Toy Companies Can Grow with “Auntventures”
- The Disruption Report #10: Slow going as pallets become scarce and containers keep falling overboard
- The New Disruption Report Web Page
- This Week: The Pandemic-fueled Resurgence of the Hula Hoop
- Fandom, The Big Deal: Julian Montoya of The Noble Collection
- Cease-and-Desist: Don’t Mess with Tolkien
- Toy Industry CEOs Talk About Inflation
- Disruption Report #9: Delivery Times Are the Worst Since 1951
- Kids & Family Industry Report 2021 Shows Much Optimism with Significant Changes on the Horizon (Sponsored Ad)
- Irrational Exuberance. The 2020s Are Starting to Look a Lot Like the 1920s
- Looking Back. Looking Ahead. Celebrating Two Years of the Playground Podcast
- The Play of Fortune
- Travel Warning! Rental Cars Are Scarce
- This Week: Iconic Brands on YouTube
- Sustainability Concerns Aging Down
- Which Countries’ G.D.P. Will Grow the Most Over the Next Five Years?
- Running the Game: A Conversation with Filip Franke of Ravensburger
- The Insights Family® Launches Latest Version Of Its Award-Winning Real-Time Data Portal (Sponsored Ad)
- The Results of the “2021 Looking Forward Survey”
- Big Business and Political Clout. What is the civic responsibility for large corporations?
- Will Puzzles, Games, and Other Pandemic Favorites Remain Popular?
- The Disruption Report #8: When It Comes to Container Ships, Big Is Not Better
- Getting Your Mojo On: A Conversation with Billy Langsworthy, Founder of Mojo Nation
- Landfill vs. Legacy: Solving Sustainability in the Toy Industry
- What Can Retailers Learn from Lego’s Success?
- The Disruption Report #7: Plastic Prices Spike, More Containers Overboard, and the Suez Canal is Unplugged
- Toikido Set to Launch: A Conversation with Founder Darran Garnham
- Three Companies Now Control 50% + of Ad Spending; None of Them Are Television Networks
