The popularity of gaming videos is the meeting of two major trends: online gaming, and online content creation. However, the vast quantities of content available on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch makes comprehensive moderation impossible, making it highly likely that young audiences are exposed to inappropriate content.
Tankee aims to solve this problem by creating the first safe destination for 6-12 kids to enjoy gaming videos. Read More
Earlier this year, we launched SafeFam, a YouTube content certification program for young video creators/influencers and their audiences.
Stepping into a gap which YouTube has not tackled (or more accurately, cannot tackle) SafeFam helps young content creators learn, understand and adhere to the digital safety and content requirements of the under-13 audience. Read More
Social plugins are one of the biggest unintentional harvesters of children’s personal data. Every time a child loads a web page or app which has a social widget, it’s gathering vast amounts of personal information about their activity. YouTube’s video player is one of the… Read More
At the start of this year we shared Kids’ Trend Predictions for 2018 from the 7-12 audience of our kid-safe PopJam platform. They said 2018 would be the year of slime, unicorns, fidget spinners, squishies and iPhones. They weren’t wrong.
At the end of Q1 we checked back in with the PopJammers to see what was trending, and the Floss dance, Fortnite, Roblox, slime and squishies topped the charts. Now, heading into the latter half of 2018, we’re seeing new trends, as well as some brand-new takes on their existing faves... Read More
At SuperAwesome, we’re focused on building solutions for a new set of problems that haven’t really existed before (the internet has never had this many under-13 users). Some of our most successful kidtech products have sprung from Hack Days, a quarterly event where we take new ideas from across… Read More
Kidtech is one of the fastest-growing digital markets in the world. With SuperAwesome's US business rapidly expanding, we're adding to the team to enable us to maintain our dominance in the kids digital ecosystem.
To that end, we're pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Zagorski as Chief Revenue Officer for North America. Read More
Twelve months ago, the primary law protecting children’s data privacy was COPPA in the US. COPPA makes it illegal to capture any personal data on children under the age of 13. In less than a year, this has radically changed. Read More
In the last twelve months children’s data privacy law has expanded from what was just the US (COPPA) to covering all of Europe (under GDPR-K). But it’s not stopping there. Against many expectations, China has also introduced protection for children online.
Recently China published the Personal Information Security Specification which, together with the country’s new 2016 Cyber Security Law, establishes specific digital data privacy protections for children under the age of 14. Read More
Campaign has awarded AwesomeAds the prestigious Breakthrough Technology Award for kid-safe programmatic advertising. Read More
In our first quarterly review of 2018, we surveyed PopJammers across the UK, US and Australia to reveal what’s been trending with kids so far this year.
SPOILERS: Fortnite and the Floss are HUGE. Read More
