YouTube accused of 'violence' against young children over kids' content. YouTube has been accused of “infrastructural violence” against children due to its role in the creation of vast quantities of low-quality, disturbing content aimed at pre-schoolers. James Bridle, a campaigning technology-focused artist and writer, documented the way the video platform’s algorithmic curation drives enormous amounts of viewers to content made purely to satisfy those algorithms as closely as possible. Bridle highlights videos with names such as “Peppa Pig Crying at the Dentist Doctor Pull Teeth!” – a pirate Peppa Pig episode in which “she is basically tortured, before turning into a series of Iron Man robots and performing the Learn Colours dance”– and “BURIED ALIVE Outdoor Playground Finger Family Song Nursery Rhymes Animation Education Learning Video”, which is an indescribable mixture of low-quality 3D models of Disney characters, violence, nursery rhymes and surrealism.
YouTube said in a statement that its main site is explicitly for users aged 13 and up. YouTube to clamp down on disturbing kids' videos such as dark Peppa Pig. YouTube has announced a clampdown on disturbing and inappropriate children’s videos, following accusations that the site enabled “infrastructural violence” through the long-run effects of its content recommendation system. The new policy, announced on Thursday evening, will see age restrictions apply on content featuring “inappropriate use of family entertainment characters” like unofficial videos depicting Peppa Pig “basically tortured” at the dentist. The company already had a policy that rendered such videos ineligible for advertising revenue, in the hope that doing would reduce the motivation to create them in the first place.
“Earlier this year, we updated our policies to make content featuring inappropriate use of family entertainment characters ineligible for monetisation,” said Juniper Downs, YouTube’s director of policy. “We’re in the process of implementing a new policy that age restricts this content in the YouTube main app when flagged. YouTube: a guide for parents | Net aware. Online safety resources for parents | Girls' Day School Trust. Creativity as conversation in the interactive audience culture of YouTube. Creativity as conversation in the interactive audience culture of YouTube: EBSCOhost. Schools must provide a 'moral compass' for young girls, leading headmistress says. The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Thousands of videos on YouTube look like versions of popular cartoons but contain disturbing and inappropriate content not suitable for children. If you're not paying much attention, it might look like an ordinary video featuring Peppa Pig, the cheeky porcine star of her own animated series. But soon after pressing play on this particular YouTube clip, the plot turns dark. A dentist with a huge syringe appears. Peppa's teeth get pulled out. Distressed crying can be heard on the soundtrack. Parent and journalist Laura June almost immediately noticed something was not quite right as her three-year-old daughter was watching it. "Peppa does a lot of screaming and crying and the dentist is just a bit sadistic and it's just way, way off what a three-year-old should watch," June says.
"But the animation is like close enough to looking like Peppa - it's crude but it's close enough that my daughter was like 'This is Peppa Pig.'" More from BBC Trending. Uk.businessinsider. Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla form a YouTube comedy duo called Smosh. Melly Lee/Courtesy of DEFY Media YouTube stars are becoming increasingly powerful. They're landing big TV contracts, writing books, and buying million-dollar mansions, all while amassing fan bases numbering in the millions.
A new survey from digital content company Defy Media digs deeper into why digital media stars have captured the hearts of young people. In a multi-part study that involved in-depth interviews and social media surveys, Defy Media found 62% of Americans ages 13-24 like digital media just because it makes them feel good. "One of the reasons that people are going to digital platforms rather than TV is that they just like the content a lot more," Andy Tu, EVP of marketing at Defy Media, told Business Insider. Many young millennials (those in the 13-17 age group) said they admire YouTube stars even more than they do traditional Hollywood celebrities.
Defy shared this video of clips from their interviews. Parents, Something is Terribly Wrong With Many YouTube Videos for Children. Is it safe to turn your children into YouTube stars? By now, you know Zoella. When you hear the word “vlogger”, her squeaky-clean, baby-faced brand is exactly what comes to mind. But vloggers are varied. Older, rounder and balder individuals have also amassed millions of views, subscribers, and pounds on YouTube.
But they don’t do it by filming 20-minute lipstick reviews. Instead, they film their children. The daily vlogging of family life is nothing new. The Shaytards, an American family with five children and over 3.7 million YouTube subscribers, have recorded every day of their lives for the past eight years. Jonathan and Anna Saccone-Joly have been filming their children Emilia and Eduardo literally since the moment of their births. At first glance, it all seems harmless enough. The answer to that might be the parent who received a card threatening to “gouge out” the eyes of their baby daughter. Jonathan SacconeJoly (@JonathanJoly)@XoSweetTweetsXo there are a lot of disturbing websites on the internet friend :)October 16, 2013. Why YouTube is the new children’s TV... and why it matters.
From Minecraft builds to YouTube videos – not to mention YouTube videos of Minecraft builds – children in 2015 have plenty of options for digital entertainment. YouTube, in particular, has emerged as an alternative to traditional children’s TV – although it’s probably more accurate to say that the two are merging: plenty of popular children’s TV shows are now on YouTube in some form, while to young viewers – many on tablets – it’s all just “video”. With the launch of its YouTube Kids app in the UK and Ireland, the company is hoping to capitalise, but this being YouTube – owned by Google – it’s also kicking up a debate about its motivations, as well as familiar arguments about children and screen time. Is YouTube in the driving seat, or its young viewers? For critics of YouTube, it’s tempting to see YouTube Kids as an example of the company identifying children as the next group it wants to target.
YouTube is reacting to the fact that tens of millions of children are already watching. Why 2017–2020 Will be the New #YouTube Golden Era! 20 Things You Need to Know. I’m constantly asked if it’s too late to start a YouTube channel. This question is fascinating to me because my response is typically:“Are you kidding? It’s never been a better time to start a channel…” I’m even secretly planning at least 3 new channels starting from 0 partnering with other creators…whoops, cat’s out of the bag…. What Has Changed About YouTube In 2017… It’s not just YouTube that has changed, but also our technology and culture. For one thing, unlike 2012 when YouTube opened it’s YouTube Partner Program up, allowing any creator to monetize with ads and make money on YouTube, the platform now has mainstream awareness. The average person essentially understands what a YouTuber is now, and nearly everyone from children to adults watches a YouTube video at some point in their day.
Combine that with the fact the average person now has a very capable camera in their mobile phone and that in the last 2 years, live streaming and it’s power has entered mainstream awareness as well… How are YouTubers influencing children? | Internet Matters. Dr Tamasine Preece gives insight about the power that YouTubers now have on children who look to them for advice on issues they’re most concerned about. Many of the concerns regarding YouTube are not dissimilar from those expressed towards other sites such as Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat. Content can often include strong language and problematic content relating to pornography, hate crime, bullying, self-harm and suicide. Young people who communicate with others via the comment boxes underneath a video can be abused and threatened with violence.
To help children stay safe parents should take the time to activate parental locks on all Internet-enabled devices as well as initiating age-restrictions on the young person’s YouTube account. Users usually have to verify the age in order to view adult content but the content is unrestricted after it is uploaded until it is reported to or noticed by a site moderator. Identity-play and mental health Online cruelty Pseudo-experts and fake facts.
Uk.businessinsider. An October 2016 Influenster survey, which polled US female influencers who are heavy users of at least two social networks, found that 93% of respondents ages 14 to 18 watch product reviews on YouTube, compared to 86% of overall influencers. In fact, these teen influencers are more likely to watch product reviews than any other type of video on YouTube, with 77% saying they go to YouTube to view such content. Influenster is a network of “tastemaker consumers” who give opinions on products. The group surveyed over 11,000 US female internet users ages 14 to 51 between August and October 2016. In addition to reviews, haul videos (those that feature someone showing and describing products purchased during a recent shopping trip) and unboxing videos (those that feature users unwrapping new products from their packages) are very popular among teen influencers.
They’re also watching a much higher number of videos per visit on average. —Alison McCarthy Many Consumers Are Open to Beacons. #VidCon: YouTube Fandom Deserves To Be Taken Seriously. A look inside Australia's first VidCon. On a stretch of brushed concrete the size of a soccer field, two teenagers sit close together. They’re alone in this huge space, away from the crowds. Knees touching, they talk quietly, laughing and painting each other’s nails. This moment of friendship, oblivious to the backdrop of surreal, industrial emptiness, sums up the vibe of Australia’s first ever VidCon. VidCon is the world’s largest convention for online video. It’s been around in the US since 2010 but this was its first year in Melbourne. The event is divided into three streams: “Community” is targeted at fans, “Creator” suits those making video, and “Industry” is pitched at corporate tech workers.
One Industry attendee tells me that it feels like “hanging out with the vampires”. Everywhere you look there are people talking into cameras. All weekend, when I talk to people from the Industry or Creator tracks, they roll their eyes at the “cult of celebrity”. HelloWorld. Is YouTube the new television? YouTube screen grabs here are few certainties in modern broadcasting but Dominic Smales is “100 per cent sure” that he knows one of them: the small-screen stars of the future will be minted on social media. “In a few years it will seem totally outmoded to have a commissioning editor deciding what goes on our television screens and then forcing performers in front of an audience,” he says fervently. We are talking in a small office in London’s tech district of Shoreditch, out of which Smales, 41, runs Gleam Futures, one of Britain’s first “social talent” agencies, and from where he is determined to shake up the staid world of traditional media.
Listening to his strictures about the limitations of scheduled telly it is easy to forget that Smales didn’t start out as a digital revolutionary. Pretty quickly, however, he discovered that the real action on the Google-owned video website lay not in slick films produced by wealthy companies. ©Jean Jullien ©Finn Taylor - Jamie Oliver 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Why YouTube Stars Influence Millennials More Than Traditional Celebrities. Change IRL: YouTuber Stars Who Inspire Change Through Charity Videos. How much change can you enact from the comfort of your bedroom?
Probably not much – not when you would rather sleep or surf the internet, spending all day on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. Then again, there are times when doing something as simple as watching or sharing a YouTube video can help save lives, bring inspiration, and fund humanitarian organizations all over the world. Since its inception in 2005, the world’s largest video sharing site has proved to be one of the most powerful venues for promoting charity campaigns and raising awareness of charitable causes on the planet.
YouTuber and New York Times bestselling author John Green describes it as an extremely effective platform for fundraising. “The structure of the website facilitates community discussion and easy distribution of content,” he said, “whether that’s uploading a video for charity, discussing it in comments, or sharing it to Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.” Jack and Finn Harries (JacksGap) Tyler Oakley. Life as a Vlogger: What's It Like? We Asked 10 YouTubers. You probably know about the YouTube giants – PewDiePie, Jenna Marbles, the Vlogbrothers – but what about all of the smaller vloggers who make up a huge amount of the content produced on YouTube? 15 Entertaining YouTube Celebrities Worth Watching 15 Entertaining YouTube Celebrities Worth Watching YouTube has changed our idea of what it takes to become a celebrity.
You don't really need a skill, with a personality and the ability to entertain and inform an audience the only prerequisites. Read More Smaller channels often don’t make their living creating content, which means that YouTube is something they do in addition to a job or school. We wanted to find out, so we talked to a few creators. Why Make YouTube Videos? We’re busy people. Is it the dream of one day getting that viral hit that brings in millions of views, and with it, tons of ad money? Actually, no. “I never make YouTube videos for the fame or the money. And of course, a huge motivation for many is just that they love it. Amazon lures YouTube influencers. BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. YouTube influencers can now sign up for Amazon’s Influencer Program, a tool that allows popular social personalities to make money from products they endorse, according to TechCrunch.
Until now, Amazon’s program operated in a closed beta, and was limited to personalities with large followings, high-quality content, and high engagement across platforms. Now, Amazon is expanding the beta specifically for YouTube stars, and even though the program is still tightly controlled, the move implies Amazon is bullish on the power of influencer persuasion. Influencer marketing is a burgeoning form of affiliate marketing, and Amazon is testing what works.
Here are some observations on Amazon’s approach: Amazon influencers are more closely tied to sales than YouTube stars. But Amazon is still behind other platforms in terms of scale. 4 YouTube trends to inform your back-to-school ads - Think with Google. Watch time of back-to-school content on YouTube has more than tripled over the past two years.1 If each hour watched in 2016 alone was represented by a pencil, they would stretch from Brisbane, California to Brisbane, Australia and back.2 Our most recent research with Ipsos uncovers the latest shopping trends on YouTube, and what they mean for back-to-school marketing. Back-to-school shopping isn’t just backpacks and pencils—it’s all of the products a family needs to get ready for the year ahead. And before making those purchases, people turn to video reviews for the information they need. In fact, in the past two years on YouTube, videos with “review” in the title had more than 50,000 years’ worth of watch time on mobile alone.3 Keep in mind there’s more than one kind of video review, so experiment and find what works for your brand.
Much like we’ve seen with “unboxing,” the current craze, “shop with me,” is on a meteoric rise. Generation Famous: Growing As A YouTube Star Is Harder Than You Think. Generation Famous: Why You Probably Could Not Be A YouTube Star. 75 per cent of children want to be YouTubers and vloggers. Untitled. Untitled. Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New ... - Patrice Flichy.
YouTuber children as young as FOUR are vlogging and finding fame online. Why are YouTube stars so popular? | Technology. Psychology of sharing: Brits favour visual content. POSWhitePaper. What Motivates Us to Share Videos? The Psychology Behind Social Video.