YouTube



YouTube is an American online video hosting platform based in San Bruno, California. It was founded by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim – in February 2005 and bought by Google in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, where it continues to operate as one of its subsidiaries.

Registered users can rate, comment, share, upload, view, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users; age-restricted videos are available only to registered users that are at least 18 years old. There are a wide variety of both user-generated and corporate media videos, such as video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, movie trailers, live streams, vlogs, and educational videos.