Australia's under-16 social media ban currently excludes Discord, GitHub, LEGO Play, Roblox, Steam, Google Classroom, Messenger, WhatsApp, and YouTube Kids
Bloomberg :
Former YouTube Kids employees describe how the service embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect children
Former employees say platform embraced human curation over virality to address criticism it wasn't doing enough to protect younger consumers Tweets: @yoreekoh , @kevinroose , and @martinhoffmann Tweet...
YouTube to roll out a “supervised” account option in beta in the coming months in more than 80 countries, aimed at kids that are too old for YouTube Kids
YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service. — A new “supervised” YouTube account option …
Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids
Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November.
YouTube officially rolls out changes to children's content on its main site following FTC settlement and also begins running promotions for YouTube Kids
this is new — they will also feature small text directing viewers to the Kids app. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : YouTube officially rolls out changes to children's conten...
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company
every step toward “responsibility” smacked into its third rail of being an open platform (w @Lucas_Shaw) https://www.bloomberg.com/... Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp : Having just 500 guaranteed safe ...
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company
YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history. Tweets: @loudmouthjulia , @bloombergca , @mattrosoff , @alistairmbarr , @mhbergen , @woganmay , @luca...
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company
YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history. Tweets: @mattrosoff , @mhbergen , and @lucas_shaw Tweets: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : The contortions...
YouTube Kids introduces a new content filtering tier for preschoolers, ages four and under, and will launch a web version “later this week”
Rita El Khoury / Android Police :
Instead of moving kids content to YouTube Kids, where existing problems could be replicated, YouTube Kids should invest in curation and product development
Facing mounting pressure over failures to protect children from inappropriate content, Google is reportedly considering a number of changes to its video sharing site YouTube.