* The North American box office was flat YoY at $3.6B. * Lilo & Stitch was the biggest domestic movie this year with $423M, Inside Out 2 the biggest movie of summer 2024 hit $650M. * Summer 2024 had a second film go over $650M - Deadpool and Wolverine. * Summer 2025’s box

BLE is now just 5 weeks away, and often catches people out, coming soon after the end of the summer vacation period. The show celebrated 25 years in 2024 with its highest attendance on record with over 11,000 attendees from 172 countries and more than 1,400 retailers. So

We’ve made some changes to the brand pages so that IP owners can share more details with, and make the pages more engaging and informative for, potential partners. Check out what’s new below: * We’ve added new fields so that brand websites and social media links can be

Barb, the UK industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has added TV-set viewing to YouTube channels to its reporting. 200 of the most-watched YouTube channels across a number of interests have been selected to be part of its regular audience reporting. From popular creators like Sidemen and kids’

Circana’s H1 2025 report on the toy industry in the G12 countries (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States) shows that dollar sales increased by 7% to $27.5 billion, units sold grew by 4%, and average selling price (ASP)

Successful licensing is about making sure that the right products are on the right shelves (real or virtual) at the right time. And that’s why, traditionally, licensing programs are years in the making. However, every so often, a film, musician or TV show hits in a way that wasn’