Entertainment/Character
Guess Who’s Back
November 17, 2017
Nostalgia remains strong for retro brands—We review the top retro announcements this week. Featuring: Nickelodeon, Epic Rights, Warner Bros., Nintendo, The Smiley Co., and more…
Preschool
Preschool Properties With Some Licensing Activity
September 15, 2017
TLL’s feature of selected preschool properties with active merchandising programs worldwide, complete with retail sales ranges…
Digital
Roundup: Digital Content, Apps & Social
September 8, 2017
Disney expands its digital content and steaming plans; new developments with Facebook and YouTube; NFLPA, AMC, and Anna Sui; and more…
TLL’s Guide to Music-based Properties
May 1, 2017
Musicians and bands, living and dead, are included in “Music.” Apart from merchandise licensing based on the individual or group name or imagery (the Rolling Stones tongue or the Grateful Dead dancing bears, for example)…
Entertainment/Character
Licensors Poised to Lose Millions in Royalties
November 11, 2016
Top entertainment companies like Discovery, CBS, Fox, and NBCUniversal are allegedly facing millions in lost royalties if a planned bankruptcy auction of Delivery Agent…
ENTERTAINMENT/CHARACTER
Preschool: A Passport to the Worldwide Market
September 30, 2016
As one of the first categories in which properties originating outside the U.S. became part of global culture, the $10+ billion worldwide preschool sector…
TLL SURVEY
Music Licensed Goods Down 1.7% as Movie Merch Spread Out on Shelves
September 5, 2016
U.S. and Canadian sales of licensed goods based on music properties trended down for the second consecutive year in 2015, though not as steeply as in 2014. Music licensed goods represented…
MUSIC LICENSING
Lucky Brand Joins Bands
October 9, 2015
With its recent deal to develop a national apparel and accessories program around classic rock bands KISS, Journey, Def Leppard and…