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YouTube Kids is an American video app and website for children developed by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. The app provides a version of the service oriented solely towards children, with curated selections of content, parental control features, and filtering of videos deemed inappropriate for viewing by children under the age of 13, in ...
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Basic Features
1. Watch history: Lists the videos that all kid profiles have watched. 2. Watch on TV: Allows casting to TV. 3. YouTube Shorts: Shorts can be viewed through YouTube Kids, but cannot be filtered directly. 4. Recommended: The recommended appears after watching 3 videos. It functions mostly like the main YouTube recommended, but only with approved videos.
Parental Controls
1. Kid profiles: Users can create up to eight kid profiles, each with their own viewing preferences, video recommendations, and settings. 2. Blocking channels: Videos or channels can be blocked to automatically remove the content from all kids’ profiles. If the profile uses the same Google Account for YouTube and YouTube Kids, any channels blocked on YouTube will also be blocked on YouTube Kids. Blocking a channel only blocks content uploaded to that specific channel. It doesn't block videos...
Commercial advertising
YouTube Kids has been criticized by various advocacy groups, particularly the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience. In response to the advert controversy, YouTube added bumpers between the content and the commercials. These bumpers lasted for a few seconds, allowing children to be able to separate them in their minds.This c...
Elsagate
1. Main article: Elsagate The site has also been criticized for it's lack of properly filtering content that is potentially inappropriate for kids. These videos, referred to as Elsagate involved family friendly characters from literally everything that has a massive appeal such as Spider-Mandoing things that are considered too much for younger viewers. YouTube started taking action against these videos in November 2017 and has since deleted many of the channels who made this sort of content a...
If 'YouTube Kids' is searched up on the search page, it will show popular and recommended videos, much like main YouTube.
Elsagate (derived from Elsa and the -gate scandal suffix) is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were categorized as "child-friendly", but contained themes inappropriate for children.
Apr 30, 2017 · YouTube Kids is an app on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store. The app's purpose is to provide a family-friendly version of YouTube for younger children, with No parental control features and video filters. In addition to content from YouTube, there is featured content made specifically...
Feb 23, 2015 · And today, we’re launching YouTube Kids, a new family-friendly app that makes it easy for kids to explore a vast selection of videos on any topic. In the new YouTube Kids app, available on Android and iOS in the U.S., videos are narrowed to focus on content that is appropriate for the whole family.
www.pocket-lint.com · parenting · newsWhat is YouTube Kids, how does it work, and is it really safe?
Feb 23, 2015 · YouTube Kids limits the world of content on the service to curated, family-friendly videos, channels, and educational clips. The app’s interface features large images, colourful icons, and...
YouTube Kids was created to give kids a more contained environment that makes it simpler and more fun for them to explore on their own, and easier for parents and caregivers to guide their...
