“Let your kids learn and laugh along with their favorite characters without paid ads”, YouTube Product Manager A.J. Crane wrote in a blog post announcing the new integration, which is available in the US, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Love to occupy your little ones with YouTube Kids, but hate subjecting them to all the ads?
Now, users can integrate the Kids app with the video giant’s subscription streaming service, YouTube Red. With the addition of Red, I can now offline some videos for a long vehicle drive, and hand my boys a smartphone knowing they won’t be exposed to ads for junk food that would rot their little teeth.
Meanwhile, some other YouTube Kids updates are on the way.
To get started with both services, all you’ll need to do is download the YouTube Kids app and make sure you have a YouTube Red membership.
“The primary reason is that it took us time to actually build that bridge between YouTube Kids and YouTube Red was because we really wanted to do it in the right way that really allows for parents to have that control”, Malik Ducard, YouTube’s global head of family and learning, told Mashable.
One of the biggest features that a Red subscription offers is the ability to download videos for offline viewing.
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For YouTube Red subscribers, these features also work in YouTube’s main application as well as its standalone YouTube Music and Gaming apps, in addition to YouTube Kids. It’s a feature that YouTube users have demanded for a very long time and the company made a decision to hide it behind Red’s paywall.
