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How Gabb Music Curates Its Streaming Service for Kids and Families: ‘We’re Looking at Quality Over Quantity’
Gabb Music, the music platform for kid-friendly Gabb phones, shares its top-played songs and what makes it unique from other music streamers.
“Having the ability to build something from the ground up for kids was to me so appealing,” Kerri Fox-Metoyer, head of entertainment services at Gabb Wireless, tells Billboard Family. “As a parent, you can understand this,” she tells Billboard Family of Gabb’s concept of omitting songs that reference topics like violence, drug use, self harm and bullying, or “the things that may not have explicit lyrics, but they are just not age-appropriate for your kids. Beyond the phone itself being built as a kid-safe device, part of what makes its streaming platform different from other services is the Gabb product’s built-in audience of young listeners: “They’re helping us build it,” she says.
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