Children’s advocacy groups like Common Sense feel that the rules don’t go far enough, and that placing most of the burden on creators rather than YouTube itself won’t do enough to protect kids online. However, the rules are “entirely consistent with what YouTube is required to do ...
The 25-track collection, entitled Just a Minute, drops on Friday (Jan. 14) and is the culmination of a lot of hard work by Billy Reid and Reb Stevenson. The duo produce everything in their Saanich home studio, where they then turn the songs into YouTube videos bl...
A screenshot of the YouTube Kids app YouTube There will also be controls allowing parents to limit their children's viewing time as well as features allowing them to turn the sound and search function on or off. "This is actually kind of great," Jeff Bakalar, a senior editor at CNET...
YouTube App for Kids Faces New ComplaintsConsumer advocacy groups say marketing aimed at children haspermeated the YouTube app designed...Kang, Cecilia
YouTube might have finally figured out a way to keep creepy, exploitative videos away from children using the YouTube Kids app: Human curators. An upcoming, technically-not-yet-confirmed new version of the app eliminates the algorithm that selects which videos show up for viewing. Instead, a...
Parents with young children now have a new option for tablet-based entertainment, as Google on Monday officially unveiled YouTube Kids, a new app for the video sharing site focused on enabling children to discover content for themselves.
The first major feature is the new, adaptive design. It actually changes the appearance of the app based on the child’s age. That way, YouTube Kids is appropriate for children of all ages as they won’t feel the app is out of their age range. ...
With an aim to improve child safety on YouTube, the company over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior. These efforts are focused on videos featuring young minors. It said that it will continue to identify videos at ...
Google is updating its YouTube Kids app for iOS devices today to introduce profiles and a dynamic app design that changes based on a child's age...