YouTube demonetises low-quality ‘made for kids’ content

As part of the recent push to increase their protection of children, YouTube has announced new standards for content made for children. From November 2021, YouTube has begin demonetizing low-quality children’s content. Also, only high-quality videos will be eligible for inclusion in YouTube Kids.

YouTube’s definition of low-quality includes content that is: heavily commercial or promotional, encouraging negative behavior or attitudes, deceptive, low-quality, educational content, incomprehensible, sensational, or misleading, or
using children’s characters in a strange way.

YouTube’s definition of high-quality content includes lots of great attributes, but there is one area of concern. Under the value of “Diversity, equity, and inclusion,” YouTube has listed specifically videos including all sexual orientations and gender. Hopefully, these videos will focus on age-appropriate explanations, but we want you to be aware that videos marked for kids may portray these topics.