Did your child get disturbed by an inappropriate advertisement on YouTube?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02356v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 10:28:54 GMT
• Title: Did your child get disturbed by an inappropriate advertisement on YouTube?
• Authors: Jeffrey Liu, Rajat Tandon, Uma Durairaj, Jiani Guo, Spencer Zahabizadeh, Sanjana Ilango, Jeremy Tang, Neelesh Gupta, Zoe Zhou, Jelena Mirkovic
• Abstract summary: We analyze the advertising patterns of 24.6 K diverse YouTube videos appropriate for young children. We find that 9.9% of the 4.6 K unique advertisements shown on these 24.6 K videos contain inappropriate content for young children.
• Score: 3.2113789596629503
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: YouTube is a popular video platform for sharing creative content and ideas, targeting different demographics. Adults, older children, and young children are all avid viewers of YouTube videos. Meanwhile, countless young-kid-oriented channels have produced numerous instructional and age appropriate videos for young children. However, inappropriate content for young children, such as violent or sexually suggestive content, still exists. And children lack the ability to decide whether a video is appropriate for them or not, which then causes a huge risk to children's mental health. Prior works have focused on identifying YouTube videos that are inappropriate for children. However, these works ignore that not only the actual video content influences children, but also the advertisements that are shown with those videos. In this paper, we quantify the influence of inappropriate advertisements on YouTube videos that are appropriate for young children to watch. We analyze the advertising patterns of 24.6 K diverse YouTube videos appropriate for young children. We find that 9.9% of the 4.6 K unique advertisements shown on these 24.6 K videos contain inappropriate content for young children. Moreover, we observe that 26.9% of all the 24.6 K appropriate videos include at least one ad that is inappropriate for young children. Additionally, we publicly release our datasets and provide recommendations about how to address this issue.

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