In March last year in Google announced support for child profiling on its platform Google TV. Now the company has announced on its blog a novelty for parents of children with profiles on the platform: support create playlists specific to them.

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Google TV – Playlists Made for Kids and Managed by Parents

According to Google’s announcement on its blog, parents of children with profiles on the Google TV platform can now create personalized playlists for them. straight from their profiles. Just select the desired movie or program, press the button watchlist and select the child profile that will have access to the content.

When a child accesses their profile on the Google TV platform, they will be able to view their personalized playlist created by their parents, as shown in the image below released by the company:

Custom playlist for
child on Google TV platform
(Disclosure/Google)

Another new product announced by the company is support for content recommendations for children using AI. In this way, the home page will help children find new popular content on the home page of the Google TV platform without using search.

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Google has also added a new button to hide certain titles you don’t care about in the Popular Movies and Popular TV Shows categories. Just press and hold the select button to display the option to hide content.

Content Recommendations
for children on the main page
(Disclosure/Google)

The Google TV platform already includes support YouTube Kids, a version of YouTube with content aimed at younger children. For older kids, Google announces support controlled experience on regular youtube. This will allow children to view and discover YouTube content from their Google TV platform profiles, subject to the appropriate restrictions imposed by their parents.

Disclosure / Google

On top of that, this new experience also comes with some content restriction tweaks with a focus on teens. Parents will still be able to make changes to settings as needed and will be able to block content using the YouTube mobile app.

“If you have older kids in your family who are ready to transition from YouTube Kids, Google TV now supports YouTube Supervised Browsing so they can learn more about what YouTube has to offer on their YouTube profile. Google TV kids.
— Saleh Altayyar, Product Manager, Google TV.

Google has confirmed in its announcement that the above news for the Google TV platform will be available from today, October 18th.for new Chromecast with Google TV and will soon also be available for other devices from companies such as Hisense, Philips, Sony and TCL.

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Via: The Verge Source: Google

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