February 14, 2015; 9 years ago (February 14, 2015)
Headquarters
901 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, California,
United States
Area served
Worldwide (excluding blocked countries)
Owner
Google
Industry
Internet
Video hosting service
Parent
Google (through YouTube LLC)
URL
www.youtubekids.com
Advertising
Google AdSense
Current status
active
Content license
Proprietary
YouTube Kids is a 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 accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits the regular YouTube app from profiling children under the age of 13 for advertising purposes.[1]
First released on February 15, 2015, as an Android and iOS mobile app,[2] the app has since been released for LG, Samsung, and Sony smart TVs, as well as for Android TV.[3][4] On May 27, 2020, it became available on Apple TV.[5] As of September 2019, the app is available in 69 countries.[6] YouTube launched a web-based version of YouTube Kids on August 30, 2019.[7]
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, 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, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding 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.
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