YouTube Videos Which Features Children Have The Highest Views

The ties of YouTube to videos featuring children just became more awkward. Pew Research Center had a recent study showed that during the 1st week in 2019, YouTube videos with children who are under 13 years old got 3 times as many views as other contents.

The details came only one week after Google – the parent company of YouTube – reached a settlement of multimillion dollars with the Federal Trade Commission of America for violating Children's Online Privacy Protection Act on YouTube. The settlement was reached after FTC investigated whether YouTube’s parent company was protecting data of children or not. About YouTube, it does not want children under the age of 13 to use the company’s main platform and directs the younger audience to watch videos on YouTube Kids.

In the study by Pew Center, videos of 43,770 channels released during the 1^st week of Jan were analyzed. All channels have over 250,000 subscribers. They posted around a quarter-million vides with 48,486 hours in length.

Pew Research Center also added in the study:

According to other findings, eighteen percent of videos in English that were analyzed in the study was about gaming. These gaming-related videos often lasted far longer than any other contents. Moreover, the number of views of YouTube videos having keywords like “prank”, “worst” or “Fortnite” was 5 times more than videos without those keywords.

According to Wired, in early 2019, there was information about the way in which pedophiles were using YouTube’s comment section in videos featuring children with the aim of luring in other predators.

However, both YouTube and Pew Center do not immediately give any response to the comment request.