Vlogging and Livestreaming Report

Vlogging, live streaming, and parenting in 2018

The report provides insight on what parents of children aged between 4 – 16 understand about live streaming and vlogging and the opportunities and potential risks that children can be exposed to online. It also offers resources to help parents take an active role in helping children have a safer experience while sharing online.

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What’s inside the report?

Introduction

Internet Matters CEO Carolyn Bunting shares a short introduction of our findings and our partner and sponsor Huawei highlights the importance of the research in equipping parents with the tools they need to empower children to make safer choices online.

Vlogging and live streaming behaviours

An outline of what children are doing, where and why based on research with parents and children.

Positive experiences

A summary of the benefits that live streaming and vlogging can offer children in terms of their development and confidence.

Risks, concerns and negative experiences

A summary of parents concerns about vlogs and live streams and the potential risks that children can be exposed to whilst watching or actively live streaming.

Resources

As a response to the research, we created live streaming and vlogging resources to help parents understand what these were and how to help their children do them safely and minimise risks to online harms.

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On site links

Mum shares how she tackled struggles with children live streaming and vlogging