Rubies Masquerade is bolstering its expertise within the toy and dress-up industry with an internal promotion and two new hires. Following the change of role for Georges Ghougassian to Director of Licensing & Brands, Rubies has appointed Caroline Masson to lead the company’s EMEA Brand & Marketing initiative. Caroline has spent the last five years at IMC France as Senior Marketin...

A former Chief Sub of Red magazine, Tessa Clayton is the Digital Editor of Licensing.biz and ToyNews. As a freelance journalist she specialised in writing about parenting and family life, and has contributed to a wide variety of publications and websites including Tesco online, Mother & Baby, Livingetc, Junior, Boots Health & Beauty, Practical Parenting and babycentre...

Yoto, the audio platform for kids behind the critically acclaimed and award-winning Yoto Player and recently launched Yoto Mini, has added 16 additional titles to its ever-expanding library of Disney favourites. The titles, which include Star Wars: The Original Trilogy, The Muppets Most Wanted and Frozen 2, can simply be inserted into a Yoto device for independent screen-free storytime ...

Family-focused marketing agency Kids Industries (KI) has completed a 360 degree rebranding and design project with mental health and wellbeing curriculum provider, iSpace Wellbeing. The culmination of the project sees the business launch a digital wellbeing product that serves children of all ages and creates a safe place for them to go for support. With an exciting whole-school approach...