Survey: Number of kids watching online videos soars


The YouTube app and YouTube Kids app on a smartphone in New York. A new survey confirms what a lot of parents already know: Teens and tweens are consuming a lot of online video, often on services such as YouTube. — AP

The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released Oct 29. They're glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago.

And often, the survey found, they're seeing the videos on services such as YouTube that are supposedly off limits to children younger than age 13.

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