despite the huge popularity of tiktok videos youtube videos are reportedly more popular than amongst kids under the age of 12 in the us according to the us precise advertiser report kids park nearly 9 out of 10 kids under 12 in the us access content on youtube compared to 4 in 10 for tiktok the report mentions that kids are choosing youtube over tiktok as it has their favourite content and is part of their daily routineread alsogoogle deepminds ai is generating descriptions for youtube shortsgoogle recently combined deepmind and brain teams into one big ai team called google deepmind the new team has now shared details on its purported first work together the group details how one of its visual language models vlm is being used to generate descriptions for youtube shortssurvey data collected from 2000 children in the usto provide such a conclusion the online survey collected responses from 2000 children aged 2 to 12 in the us this data helped park to better understand trends in young audiences content consumption the survey will also improve how to engage with these kids across media platformswhen asked about their most recent content consumption 86 of kids said youtube while 63 mentioned video on demand apart from this 50 of kids cited gaming and only 38 said tiktokmoreover the report also added that half of the kids who watch youtube are aware of youtube shorts nearly 20 of the kids also confirmed to have seen youtube shorts ads while watchingas per the report 27 of kids also noted that they see the best commercials on youtube while 10 mentioned tiktok the report also mentioned that 43 of kids preferred youtube over all other social media apps while only 21 chose tiktokapart from this the report also showed 49 of parents worry about their kids using tiktok while just 34 are concerned about youtubeuk campaigner accuses youtube of collecting kids datain march a uk campaigner named duncan mccann filed an official complaint with the ico against youtube mccann accused the popular video streaming platform of collecting data about the activities of kids on the site the campaigner claimed that youtube is collecting data from the videos that are watched by children this data includes the location of the kids and the device on which they are watching the content