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YouTube Kids

Entertainment — YouTube for the youngins on iOS and Android [Kids, Streaming Services, YouTube]
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 2015
● Stable
Category standing real
62th pctl · Entertainment
18.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#3,920
Category rank
of 11,555 · real
46th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
2%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 7.5 → 19.6 across 38 readings (+12.1). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
46
Signal (category) real
62
Profile maturity real
46
Tag breadth real
48
Network position sparse
94
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
2%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 5% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

YouTube Kids sits in the 46th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #3,920 of 11,555 in Entertainment. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 2% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Anime Pro HDentertainmentsimilar30.063%
Boredumm Betaentertainmentsimilar32.957%
Spuulentertainmentsimilar18.638%
Football Highlights Appentertainmentsimilar15.751%
MEMENTUUMentertainmentsimilar22.960%
indocusentertainmentsimilar30.050%
Pluto TV on Roku and Apple TVentertainmentsimilar18.644%
Ghana Live Tventertainmentsimilar35.762%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →