The kids are NOT alright
AI slop, gatekeepers and the kid's media crisis
“There's no FDA for the platform raising your kids”.
Andy Donner, Common Sense Media
Two Shapiro on The Media Odyssey Podcast this week!
Jamie Shapiro took the stage during StreamTV Denver to interview Andy Donner from Common Sense Media, Sara DeWitt from PBS Kids and Evan Shapiro. The conversation builds on a report Evan co-produced with Common Sense Media called "It’s 10pm, do you know what your kids are watching?”.
Parental demand for trustworthy kids content keeps climbing. The supply side is what’s cratering. Streamers commission kids shows when the metric of the moment rewards it, then cut the budget the second a different metric takes priority. It happened to documentaries, then indie film and kids content just joined the list. From there, the episode gets into who actually has a shot at fixing this, whether AI belongs anywhere near kids production and why the best odds sit with the corner of the industry that has the least money to spend.
Listen to this one whether you sign off on content budgets or you sign off on screen time. The episode makes a real case for the executives, then makes an even more personal one for the rest of us about what's actually shaping our kids while nobody's checking.
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That’s it for today but before you go:
This resonated with me quite a bit. I've been feeling this way about streaming content for kids for a long time. I'm glad I found something better than youtube, Me, I'm the one choosing what they get to stream.