COPPA Reviews: ‘Movie Medley’

Welcome to Pixalate’s CTV & Mobile App Manual Reviews According to COPPA, a series containing the detailed factors the Trust & Safety Advisory Board educators used to assess an app’s child-directedness.

The educators manually review thousands of mobile apps available in the Google Play & Apple App Stores as well as connected TV (CTV) apps from the Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV App Store using the COPPA Rule factors shown below & make those results available to the public at ratings.pixalate.com.

This post takes a look at a popular CTV app from the Roku Channel Store. Our reviewer discusses how the subjective factors set forth in the COPPA Rule apply to the app and factor into the reviewer's determination as to whether the app is child-directed or general audience (i.e., it is not targeting children).

Manually reviewed in this post

Movie Medley (Roku)

This Week’s Reviewer: Crystal Pearson

The 10 COPPA Rule factors

The teacher will indicate the factors they relied upon in their assessment using the 10 factors shown below that reflect the 10 child-directed factors in the COPPA Rule.

Manual Review: Movie Medley

Likely audience after manual review

Developer: ClipMeUp
Roku App Store ID: 570589
Privacy Policy
Tabitha’s take: Movie Medley is a media channel that comprises movie classifications of cinema to give the audience a sense of mystery and unknown exploration into vintage films.

COPPA factors used to determine audience

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The Movie Medley app is a multi-category channel packed full of vintage films. The movies included in this app are meant to invoke an emotional response and feelings of nostalgia to the user. There is excitement, unexpected character arcs, intrigue, diverse characters, in-depth plots, and on-the-edge scenes. The visual content and subject matter of the films appeals to adults.

On the Roku App Store landing page for this app, the app description says “How to take your free time? We know the solution! Our channel is pretty good therapy against the blahs and day-to-dayness. What is a better way to lift the spirits than by watching a vintage action cinema?” This description is targeting adults as opposed to children.

Privacy

The operator’s privacy policy states, “Our Service do [sic] not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13.”

Screenshots of Movie Medley:

About Pixalate’s Trust & Safety Advisory Board

Pixalate’s Trust and Safety Advisory Board was created to bring in individuals with experience using child-directed apps in the classroom to review and assess which apps are child-directed. This manual review process serves to quality check Pixalate’s automated review process. See our full methodology for more information.

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