YouTube and adventures in digital babysitting – Tech Weekly podcast
by Presented by Olly Mann and produced by Simon Barna from Technology | The Guardian on (#WHGH)
It's quietly become the biggest children's entertainment platform on the planet. So what is the secret of YouTube's success?
Thanks to channels such as Little Baby Bum and Baby Big Mouth, YouTube has quietly become the biggest kid's entertainment platform in the world. And now the video-sharing site has just launched its own Kids App in the UK and Ireland.
But do such developments help parents find the content that will benefit their children, or is it a worrying further encroachment of the digital babysitter? And can educational content and corporate advertisements ever live side by side, happily ever after?
