YouTube is simply a spot wherever teens tin learn, research their passions, definitive themselves, and find belonging. We admit nan important portion we play successful their lives and today, we’re introducing a caller supervised acquisition connected YouTube that will springiness parents and teens nan action to nexus their accounts and get shared insights and notifications. This caller acquisition is designed to support parents informed astir their teens' transmission activity connected YouTube and thief them supply encouragement and proposal connected responsible contented creation.

Beginning to rotation retired to families globally this week, nan first loop of this acquisition builds connected our existing supervised experience for pre-teens. Soon, parents and teens will beryllium capable to nexus their YouTube accounts successful our caller Family Center hub. In Family Center, parents tin spot shared insights into their teens’ transmission activity connected YouTube including nan number of uploads, subscriptions and comments. Parents (and teens) will besides person proactive email notifications astatine cardinal events, for illustration erstwhile teens upload a video aliases commencement a livestream, providing an opportunity to connection proposal connected responsible creation supported by resources created pinch Common Sense Networks, an connection of Common Sense Media.

Our products for youth, YouTube Kids and supervised experiences for pre-teens, scope much than 100 cardinal progressive logged-in and logged-out viewers each period and nan improvement of these products is guided by independent experts successful kid development, integer learning, and children’s media who hail from academic, nonprofit, and objective backgrounds. In business pinch these experts and successful accordance pinch our younker principles, we’ve created this caller acquisition that respects teens’ autonomy by giving parents and teens communal control and caller resources that empower teens to go informed and responsible integer citizens. We'll proceed engaging pinch experts and parents arsenic we grow and germinate this experience.

“It's truthful important for teens to person abstraction to make their ain choices, definitive themselves, and research their personality and values. It's besides important to person nan contented of trusted adults successful their lives if they request them. That's why erstwhile I talk pinch teens and their parents astir online activities, I promote nan thought of 'trust, but verify.' YouTube’s supervised acquisition for teens holds these developmental principles by having teens and their parents stock decisions astir supervision pinch continued open, two-way communication.” - Ellen Selkie, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Over nan years, we’ve invested successful a scope of features to protect our younger users, from combating nan promotion of eating disorders and termination to introducing new privateness and wellbeing protections. And we precocious rolled retired caller safeguards that limit recommendations of videos pinch contented that could beryllium problematic if viewed successful repetition, particularly for teens. We’re proud to return this adjacent measurement to springiness parents nan expertise to prosecute thoughtfully pinch their teens’ online presence.