YouTube

 YouTube is an American on line video sharing and social media platform owned by means of Google. It became released in February 2005 through Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second maximum visited website, with multiple billion monthly customers[7] who together watch multiple billion hours of movies each day.[8] As of May 2019, films were being uploaded at a price of extra than 500 hours of content material in step with minute.[9]

In October 2006, YouTube become bought by using Google for $1.65 billion.[10] Google's ownership of YouTube has also modified its business version; it no longer generates revenue from classified ads on my own. YouTube now offers paid content which include movies and specific content material. YouTube and accredited creators take part in Google's AdSense software, which generates more sales for both events. It has considering that advanced from a small video streaming platform to a large service with reported sales of $19.8 billion in 2020.[1]

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Since its purchase with the aid of Google, YouTube has elevated beyond the website into cellular apps, network tv, and the capability to hyperlink with different offerings. Video categories on YouTube consist of tune motion pictures, movies, short movies, function films, documentaries, audio recordings, film trailers, stay streams, vlogs, and extra. Most content material is generated by way of people. This consists of collaborations among YouTubers and agency sponsors. Since around 2015, established media corporations together with Disney, ViacomCBS, and WarnerMedia have created and extended their corporate YouTube channels to put it up for sale to a larger target audience. YouTube additionally acts as a social community via allowing users with a Google account to watch and add their own videos, touch upon films, fee and reply to feedback, like or dislike motion pictures, create playlists, and subscribe to other users and channels.

YouTube has had a vast social effect, influencing famous subculture, internet tendencies, and creating multimillionaire celebrities. It has been criticized for facilitating the spread of misinformation, copyright problems, violating its customers' privateness, enabling censorship, and endangering child safety and well-being.

Founding and preliminary boom (2005–2006)

YouTube turned into founded by way of Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The trio have been all early personnel of PayPal, which left them enriched after the organization became sold by eBay.[11] Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied laptop science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[12]

There are multiple testimonies informed of the corporation's founding. According to a tale that has regularly been repeated inside the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube at some point of the early months of 2005, when they had experienced problem sharing videos that have been shot at a night meal at Chen's condominium in San Francisco. Karim did now not attend the party and denied that it had took place, but Chen remarked that the concept that YouTube become founded after a night meal "was probable very reinforced with the aid of marketing thoughts around creating a tale that turned into very digestible".[13]