#Kidtech Episode 14: Bjorn Jeffery, former CEO of Toca Boca

Click here to listen! Bjorn Jeffery is a digital strategy and consumer culture advisor who is perhaps best known for his role as founder and CEO of Toca Boca – a play studio that makes digital toys for kids on touchscreen devices. Originally incubated inside Bonnier but now… Read More

How kids content creator SuperHeroKids works successfully with brands

Working with influencers is not always easy for brands. There can be a lot of back and forth between your team and the talent, resulting in miscommunication and content that does not properly reflect your brand. SuperAwesome interviewed Nikki Nixon, mother of the SuperHeroKids, a popular YouTube channel loved by… Read More

How we implemented kid-safe analytics with Amplitude

PopJam is a social platform that is built from the ground up to be safe, appropriate and fully anonymous for kids. It’s a safe, moderated community for kids to engage with their favourite content and brands, designed specifically for the safety and data privacy requirements (COPPA, GDPR-K) of the under-13 audience. Because it is aimed at an audience of 7-12 year olds, we take both privacy and compliance extremely seriously. A critical concern for any platform is the product analytics you use to measure and learn. This is never a trivial thing to get right. Deciding what to measure, and how, requires careful thought, but at least you have a massive array of products and solutions to choose from, often with fully-featured SDKs to make implementation quicker and easier. Read More

#Kidtech Episode 12: Ian Chambers, CEO of Mind Candy

Click here to listen! In episode 12 of #KidTech, Mind Candy’s CEO Ian Chambers sat down with Dylan Collins in London to discuss Mind Candy’s journey after Moshi Monsters. On his 3rd anniversary as CEO of Mind Candy, Ian chats about about in-app versus physical purchasing experiences for… Read More

Designing efficient data transactions under GDPR

Data is a currency. Before May 2018, users  —  who provide or create this data in the first place  —  were secondary to this economy. The Data Protection Act gave the public recourse, but very little transparency, and there was little understanding of the value of the data they were giving away daily. GDPR has put power in the hands of the users, and many companies have yet to understand that they need to explain exactly what their users are getting, at what costs, and why they should trust them, before they hand over their valuable data. Read More