YouTube launches family-friendly app for kids


Today, we're introducing the YouTube Kids app, the first Google product built from the ground up with little ones in mind. The app makes it safer and easier for children to find videos on topics they want to explore, and is available for free on and the in the U.S.

This seems pretty cool. YouTube obviously contains endless hours of content and a lot of it is about world. Recently my kids have been interested in volcanos and apparently bunnies eating things. YouTube is a cool way to show on-demand how the world works. This app seems to give parents greater control to let them do their own exploring.

This makes me think of another recent Google effort. Google teamed up with Disney to launch an interested new show Miles from Tomorrowland. The show is geared towards kids with the aim of generating interest in computer science and science in general. It features guest celeb nerds Alton Brown, Will Wheaton, Bill Nye, George Takei, Mark Hamill, and stars Olivia Munn.

Anyway, it's cool seeing Google putting some energy towards kids.