What Is Youtube?
YouTube is an American online video-sharing
platform headquartered in San Bruno, California.
With 1.7 billion monthly users as of June 2018, YouTube is the world's largest video site and is the fifth-most-visited website overall.
The platform is a subsidiary of Google, which owns a majority stake in the company.
The site was launched on February 14, 2005, as a low-tech interactive service, made possible by a library of 3,000 videos that were already available on the video hosting service Jott.
In the years that followed, the service grew into one of the top five most popular websites in the world, with over 30 hours of video uploaded every minute.
Its revenues reached US$1 billion in 2014, but YouTube's market share and subscription figures are not publicly known, and there are allegations that the site has become a destination for misinformation and extremist content.
Google launched the video format in its own company YouTube channel on September 20, 2005.
A year later, on September 18, 2006, YouTube opened to the public with 1000 videos and then in less than two months it had grown to over 50 million video uploads.
Since then, the company has been providing the ability to post and interact with video content, expanding to more content formats and has launched a growing number of other online services, such as YouTube Music and YouTube Gaming.
The site has experienced a number of controversies in the 2010s.
These controversies led to several countries regulating the site and forcing Google to delete some content that is considered dangerous or against their local laws.
YouTube employs over 17,000 employees, according to an October 2012 article by Reuters.
The site's original popularity has been attributed to a number of factors, including its exposure through native advertising by established companies such as Disney and Nike, its popularity with younger users, its accessibility, and its ability to provide users with interactive functionality, such as live video.
YouTube receives over 1 billion views a day, almost 100 million in the U.S.
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