(ForEveryMom) Researchers are warning parents this week after a new study found that YouTube videos featuring children under the age of 13 receive more than three times as many views as videos without children.
The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center, analyzed the videos produced by popular YouTube channels (ones with more than 250,000 subscribers) during the first week of 2019. What they found was that only a small percentage of the English language videos were targeted at children. But, any video that featured a child who appeared to be under the age of 13, “received nearly three times as many views on average as other types of videos.”