The connections from YouTube to videos with kids became even more unpleasant. In the first week of 2019, videos with children under 13 brought three times as many views as any other content, according to a new Pew Research Center study released Thursday.
The details come one week after YouTube's parent company Google reached an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission over several million dollars alleged violations of children's privacy laws on YouTube, The agreement came after an FTC investigation into whether Google protects child data. YouTube does not intend to use its main platform of people under the age of 13, and targets a younger one Audience to use YouTube Kids,
Pew analyzed videos released by 43,770 channels with more than 250,000 subscribers in the first week of January. In total, the channels of the Pew study recorded almost a quarter of a million videos with a duration of 48,486 hours."A single person watching videos eight hours a day (with no breaks or days off) would take more than 16 years to view all content posted only by the most popular channels on the platform during a week," added the study.
In other findings, 18% of the videos analyzed in the study referred to games in English. These videos were often longer than other content. Also videos with Keywords like "Fortnite" Tricks or "worst" received five times as many views as videos that did not mention those words.
Earlier this year, Wired reported how pedophiles used the comment section of YouTube videos with children to attract other predators.
Neither Pew Research Center nor YouTube respond immediately to a request for comments.
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