We need police help on gang videos, says YouTube
Officers from Scotland Yard have requested the removal of only three YouTube gang videos since last August despite tracking hundreds and warning that they are fuelling crime. The video-sharing website hit back after The Times revealed that a leaked police database of 1,100 videos monitored for … Read More
‘YouTube Kids’ offers safer watch for children
By giving parents the option to turn off the algorithmically recommended videos, the new 'YouTube Kids' plans to curb conspiracy theory videos … YouTube is planning to release a new version of its 'YouTube Kids' app that gives parents the option to turn off algorithmically recommended videos and only … Read …
YouTube Kids May Have to Resort To Manual Selections
When YouTube decided to launch their own kid's based app, initially parents were very interested. … In a report via Engadget, YouTube might be ready to give up on its infamous algorithm as the report suggests that the video hosting site may have to resort to manually approving content before …
YouTube might be working on a new kids app that ditches the troublesome algorithm
Late last year, YouTube users began to expose a weird trend of unsettling videos that were being targeted to kids, often featuring kid-friendly characters like Spider-Man or Elsa from Frozen being impregnated by magic wands or opening their mounts to reveal rows of unnecessarily realistic rotting teeth. Read More
“Despacito” Racks Up Over 5 Billion Views On YouTube
Ed Sheeran's “Shape of You” and “Gangnam Style” by Psy and “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars round out the top five most played YouTube videos, respectively. “What's happened with this song is just insane,” Luis Fonsi told BBC News of the massive hit that transcends cultures. Read …
YouTube Kids reportedly will release an updated app curated by actual humans
YouTube plans to roll out a non-algorithmic, whitelisted version of its YouTube Kids app in the near future as a means of avoiding violent, sexually explicit, and conspiracy-ridden content, the likes of which have all plagued the app in the past, Buzzfeed News reports. The new and improved YouTube Kids … …
New version of YouTube Kids will use humans instead of algorithms
YouTube will soon offer a new version of its YouTube Kids app, which relies on humans rather than algorithms to decide whether or not certain channels belong on the app. This decision was likely prompted as a response to the recent controversies surrounding YouTube Kids. Last year, it was reported … …
Despacito breaks world record being first video to score 5 billion views on YouTube
Luis Fonsi is probably pretty glad he wrote this song down when he woke up in the middle of the night being plagued by what would become Despacito, as it has just broken a massive world record. The tune released in January 2017 has now been the first video on …
Jana Hisham: The Right Side of Change
Being a young social commentator, some of her videos got a lot of attention considering it was the early years of YouTube. She discusses her video on the 2011 London riots (now private), which she filmed when she was 16. “It was a video ranting about how stupid it was …
YouTube will bring human curated YouTube Kids app soon
YouTube is reportedly going to release a version of the YouTube Kids app that's not driven by algorithms. The app will apparently show content to kids, that has been curated by humans, reports BuzzFeed News. The videos on the app will only come from the human creators, and everything else …