Providing information and resources for parents, youth workers and educators to help kids navigate their digital world.
The film examines how tech giants like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others are able to bend our will toward company profit by perfectly curating our online experience. Read the article here.
The latest representative action, filed against Google-owned YouTube, accuses the platform of routinely breaking U.K. and European data protection laws by unlawfully targeting up to five million under-13-year-olds with addictive programming and harvesting their data for advertisers. Read the article here.
The United States military needs to attract Gen Z, the oldest of whom are now in their late teens and early 20s, so members of the Army and Navy have been meeting their target audience where they live: The video game livestreaming platform Twitch. Read the article here.
More than two-thirds of American parents say they are concerned about the things advertised to their children YouTube. Read the article here.
Gamers with the Army, Navy, and Air Force are spending hours on Twitch with children as young as 13. Read the article here.
Kids and teens hold a lot of spending power that’s extending into households. Read the article here.
Algorithms designed by social and streaming platforms have been working hard in the background to learn user behavior and serve up new content specifically catered to each individual’s specific interests. Read the article here.
Brands such as E.L.F., Chipotle, and KIND are using TikTok as a marketing platform. Read the article here.
The rise of short video-app TikTok in 2019 is a sure sign that what defines a social network will be very different in 2020. Read the article here.
Google will impose some new restrictions on ads surrounding child-oriented videos that appear on the main YouTube.com site, but will continue to allow influencer marketing and product placement on the site, the company recently told a lawmaker. Read the article here.