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Category: Demographics

  • Birthrate

What Baby Products Companies Will Teach Us About the Big Coming Baby Bust

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on November 16, 2020November 16, 2020

In June, I wrote that the Brookings Institution is predicting that one-half million fewer babies…

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  • Art

Digital Resources from The Strong’s Women in Games Initiative

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 25, 2020October 27, 2020

Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…

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  • Advertising

Carol Kantor: The Video Game Industry’s First Market Researcher

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…

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  • Advertisement

The History of Black Barbies: From Playthings to Liberation

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on October 1, 2020December 22, 2020

On my first visit to The Strong National Museum of Play in February 2016, I…

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  • Culture and Society

Skater Girls: A Brief History on Female of Skateboarders

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

In 1959, Roller Derby Skate Company released its Roller Derby Skateboard, the first mass-produced skateboard…

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  • Culture and Society

Pin the What?!

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on August 6, 2020

What sort of party games stick in your memory? No, not the ones from your…

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  • Culture and Society

Saving Speedrunning and Digital Communities

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

How do you preserve the history of a community? What even makes up a community?…

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  • Birthrate

“‘Jaw-Dropping’ Global Crash in Children Being Born.” What We in the Toy Industry Must Do Now

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 15, 2020July 16, 2020

“23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve…

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  • Birthrate

One Half Million Fewer Births Due to Coronavirus; The Coming Impact on the Toy Industry

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 17, 2020June 18, 2020

“In a new report, economists writing for the Brookings Institution estimate that the United States…

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  • Demographics

Richard Speaks About the Decline in Birthrates in this Excerpt from His Speech to the Spielwarenmesse Toy Business Forum

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 31, 2020June 4, 2020

I recently posted a speech I gave to the Spielwarenmesse Toy Business Forum. We received…

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  • Demographics

What Constitutes a Family Unit? Maybe Not What We Thought!

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on February 14, 2020

There is a brilliant article in the March 2020 Atlantic by David Brooks entitled, "The…

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  • Demographics

U.S. Birthrate at Historic Low; The Good News and the Bad News

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on January 21, 2020

The Center for Disease Control (C.D.C.) has just announced that the U.S. birthrate has dropped…

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  • Demographics

There Are Now More People Over 65 Than Kids Under 5; What to Do?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 17, 2019

We have long been accustomed to living in a world in which those under five…

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  • Culture and Society

Sidewalk Surfing: The Gnarly History of Skateboarding Part III (1994 to 2019)

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 1, 2019

In Part I of my skateboarding blog series, I discussed how the first big wave…

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  • Demographics

What Will the American Toy Consumer Look Like in the Year 2030? I found some answers.

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 24, 2019

Over the course of my career, I have been fascinated by the generational changes in…

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