youtube kids

youtube kids :

YouTube Kids is a video app developed by YouTube. The app provides a version of the service oriented towards children, with curated selections of content, parental control features, and filtering of videos not deemed to be appropriate to the target audience. First released as an Android and iOS mobile app, the app has since been released for LG, Samsung, and Sonysmart TVs, as well as for Android TV.^[1][2] As of November 2017, the app is available in 37 countries.^[3]

YouTube Kids has faced criticism from 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 (including disturbing and/or violent videos depicting characters from children's media franchises). Criticism over the videos led YouTube to announce that it would take more stringent actions to review and filter such videos when reported by the community, and prevent them from being accessible from within the YouTube Kids app.