A kid-friendly alternative to YouTube launches its new website

Children are handed YouTube more and more often — for entertainment, for learning, or just to watch their favourite characters. The problem is what comes with it: an unfiltered feed that was never sorted by age.

Plenty of videos on YouTube can expose children to violence, sexual content, or frightening imagery. Some are built to frighten, and some to mislead. YouTube has policies against this and removes some of it, but it keeps reappearing.

That matters more for children than for adults. Young children don't always understand what they're seeing, can't always judge where it leads, and can't reliably tell what's real from what isn't. Video they aren't ready for doesn't just annoy them — it can genuinely upset them.

So it's worth limiting and supervising how children reach YouTube, and reaching instead for platforms built for them, where somebody has looked at the videos first.

That is what we're doing here. Every video on KidsTube is checked for age-appropriateness before it's added, and organised by show and by age group, so a child can browse without ending up somewhere nobody intended.

Our new website is the next step: faster, easier to search, and easier for a small child to use on their own. We'll keep adding shows and improving it — and if you're looking for somewhere safe for your children to watch, take a look around.