After the announcement of Vine for Kids, Google may have decided to roll out it's long-rumored YouTube for kids service sooner than planned earlier. Currently the company is running web surveys asking prospective users to indicate their preference on a series of possible paid features, like the one in picture below.
Just this week, Google acquired Launchpad Toys, a video firm whose two platforms, Toontastic and TeleStory, allow children to create and upload interactive videos, reigniting speculation that a YouTube Kids product is forthcoming.
While YouTube already has plenty of content geared toward children as well as advanced parental controls, early reports suggest that a YouTube Kids platform would have stricter parental controls and filtering as well as content partnerships with studios that exclusively produce children’s programming. The Launchpad Toys acquisition also suggests that the platform could allow children to create and share their own content, as older users already do on the site.
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