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- Growing Optimism for Retail Sales in 2021
- The Daily News, Wednesday, February 24, 2021
- Insights for Inventors and E-Commerce Marketers: A Conversation with Zack Pentecost of Zuru
- The Disruption Report #4: Orders postponed, tractor trailers in short supply and some companies are buying their own containers
- China Generated 52% of Its 2020 Retail Sales from E-Commerce; A lot of it came from “Social Commerce”
- Canadian Woman Earns 365 Points for a Single Scrabble Word; Its A Record
- Euromonitor International: Key Developments In Toys And Games – 2020 Growth And Projections
- Kids Insights (Ad)
- Why Dads Are Re-Thinking Toy Play More Than Ever
- The Disruption Report #3: Rising Oil Prices, Supply Chain Disruptions and Semi-Conductor Chip Shortages
- Listening & Understanding Kids Helps Build Brands with Joel Silverman, Co-Founder of Kids Know Best
- Global Toy Experts (Ad)
- Will 2021 Be Another Big Year?
- The Global Decline in Births
- Happy New Year
- Top Toy Companies Use Granular POS and Inventory Data, Do You? (Ad)
- It’s February and I Visit Javits. But Not for Toy Fair
- The Disruption Report #2: Chip Shortages and Containers Overboard
- Charles Harrison: The Black Industrial Designer Who Revamped View-Master
- New Movies About Toys & Games
- Technology, Media & Play: A Conversation with Gregg Stein, CEO of Skoog Media
- The European Toy Market 2020 and Digital Trends 2021
- My Week with Brian: A Conversation with the Collected Works of Brian Sutton-Smith
- The Disruption Report: Cardboard Shortages, Missing Containers and More
- 150,000 + Convenience Stores in the U.S. Are you selling to them?
- The German Toy Market
- Kids Turn to Audio for Escapism, Education and Entertainment
- Behind the Scenes of a Streaming Series with Documentary Maker Brian Volk-Weiss
- Results for the “2021 Beginning of the Year Survey”
- Pickleball, Rules, and the Spirit of the Game
- This Week: Puzzling Through the Pandemic
- U.S. Star Wars Postage Stamps. Great News for Disney and Hasbro
- Logistics Update: Update on Container Availability
- A Conversation with “The Toyologist, ” Peter Jenkinson
- NPD Says the U.S. Toy Industry Grew 16% in 2020. I Have Some Questions for NPD.
- A Shorter Chinese New Year Holiday?
- The Spanish Market. A 2020 Review
- No Toy Fairs. Where’s the Schmooze?
- Dimian: Toy Industry Royalty
- This Week: Aluminum Powder Masterpieces and the Etch A Sketch Pop Art Movement
- Change and Expansion; Bricks and Mortar’s Metamorphosis
- I Hope This Blog Bores You
- The French Toy Market; A 2020 Review
- U.S. Consumers Returned $428 Billion of Merchandise in 2020
- Toys and eCommerce: Adapting the Past to Win for the Future
- Just Play: Co-Presidents Charlie Emby and Geoffrey Greenberg Talk Trends & 10 Years in Business
- Good News! Shipping Containers to Be in Greater Supply During 2021 Chinese New Year
- Otherwise “Parkerized”: Oral Histories from Parker Brothers
- UPDATED! Are CVS and Rite Aid Getting Out of the Toy Business?
- Maximizing Digital Marketing: A Conversation with Cheyn Crangle of “Margle Media”
- Lego’s Big Bet on Chinese Bricks and Mortar
- Felix the Cat Was a Big Star but There Were Copy Cats Even Then
- 2021 Preview of the Year Ahead – Part 2: A Conversation with James Zahn and John Baulch
- 2020 Year In Review – Part 1: A Conversation with James Zahn and John Baulch
- Women’s Wear Daily Interviews Mattel’s Richard Dickson – A Must Read
- Supply Chain Deep Dive: A Conversation with Gene Seroka, Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles
- Preserving the LGBTQ Game Archive at The Strong
- Toys for Tots Needs Help
- What’s Behind the Rising Costs in China? (10 minutes)
- Geoff Walker: The CEO of KidKraft on Innovation & Passion for Toy Making
- Despite Head Winds, the Toy Industry Sails On
- Foreign Trade and Globalism Remain Strong
- Rare Atari Cartridge Is Another Clever Invention of a Video Game Pioneer
- This Week: ‘Tis the Season to Be Toyetic: Practical Ways to Support Independent Toy Stores this Season
- Kroger Becomes an e_commerce Powerhouse. Passes Costco.
- Prices On the Rise In China
- Top 10 Toy Industry Stories of 2020
- Trends, Insights & Powerful Research: Kids Insights Nick Richardson
- Shopping Reinvented: The Impact of Covid-19 on UK Retail & E-Commerce – Part 4
- Shopping Reinvented: The Impact of Covid-19 on UK Retail & E-Commerce – Part 3
- Shopping Reinvented: The Impact of Covid-19 on UK Retail & E-Commerce – Part 2
- Shopping Reinvented: The Impact of Covid-19 on UK Retail & E-Commerce – Part 1
- Let’s Put on a Show!
- Fewer Consumer Choices; Good or Bad for the Toy Industry?
- Why We Need 12 Days of Christmas in 2020
- Collectible Brands and Retailers Flying Half-blind
- This Week: The Resurgence of Chess and Resources to Celebrate the Game
- What Was the First Video Game?
- Take 10! Independent Toy Stores & the Pandemic
- Gerrick Johnson: Inside the Analyst’s Process
- Survey of 6,520 American Boys and Girls Tells Us What They Want for Christmas
- Chalking Up a Win
- A Toy Industry Outreach to Columbia University African-American Graduates Students
- This Week: Christmas Toy Catalogs – Past & Present
- A Conversation with the Inventors of Play Monster’s Snap Ships
- What Baby Products Companies Will Teach Us About the Big Coming Baby Bust
- Jim McCafferty of JMP Creative: Talking Invention at the Magic Workshop
- State of the Toy Industry Survey: September v. November Results
- Baby Nancy Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame
- Toy of the Year Awards Criteria
- What is the Most Anticipated Online Shopping Day in China? 11.11 – Singles’ Day
- The Average Driver Is 46 Years Old. Trouble for the U.S. Trucking Industry.
- Hot Toys vs. The TOTY Nominees: Some Thoughts
- David and Goliath: Mr. Norman on How You Play the Game
- Hot Toys vs. The TOTY Nominees
- Block by Block: Leslie Scott’s Jenga Game (or, in Swahili, Zuia kwa kuzuia: Mchezo wa Jenga wa Leslie Scott)
- State of the Toy Industry Survey: REVISITED
- Crazy Aaron and an Empire Built on Putty
- This Week: Celebrate National Easy-Bake Oven Day and the enduring appeal of the Easy-Bake Oven®
- After Covid-19, a Look Ahead. My speech to the Insights-X 2020 Stationery Expo
