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 Screenshot of homepage on November 2, 2022 | |
| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | Online video platform |
| Founded | February 14, 2005 |
| Headquarters | 901 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, California, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide (excluding blocked countries) |
| Owner | Google LLC |
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| Industry | |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  US$28.8 billion (2021)[1] |
| Parent | Google LLC (2006–present) |
| URL | youtube.com (see list of localized domain names) |
| Advertising | Google AdSense |
| Registration | Optional
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| Users | 2.562 billion MAU (January 2022)[citation needed] |
| Launched | February 14, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Uploader holds copyright (standard license); Creative Commons can be selected. |
| Written in | Python (core/API),[2] C (through CPython), C++, Java (through Guice platform),[3][4] Go,[5] JavaScript (UI) |
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. Accessible worldwide,[6] it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users,[citation needed] who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day.[7] As of May 2019[update], videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.[8][9]
In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion.[10] Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. YouTube reported revenue of $29.2 billion in 2022.[citation needed] In 2021, YouTube's annual advertising revenue increased to $28.8 billion, an increase in revenue of 9 billion from the previous year.[1]
Since its purchase by Google, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms. Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short films, feature films, songs, documentaries, movie trailers, teasers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals, including collaborations between YouTubers and corporate sponsors. Established media corporations such as Disney, Paramount, NBCUniversal, and Warner Bros. Discovery have also created and expanded their corporate YouTube channels to advertise to a greater audience.
YouTube has had unprecedented social impact, influencing popular culture, internet trends, and creating multimillionaire celebrities. Despite its growth and success, it has been widely criticized for allegedly facilitating the spread of misinformation and the sharing of copyrighted content, routinely violating its users' privacy, enabling censorship, and endangering child safety and wellbeing, and for its guidelines and how they are implemented.
- ^ a b Weprin, Alex (February 1, 2022). "YouTube Ad Revenue Tops $8.6B, Beating Netflix in the Quarter". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ Claburn, Thomas (January 5, 2017). "Google's Grumpy code makes Python Go". The Register. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^ Wilson, Jesse (May 19, 2009). "Guice Deuce". Official Google Code Blog. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
- ^ "YouTube Architecture". High Scalability. Archived from the original on October 4, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
- ^ "Golang Vitess: a database wrapper written in Go as used by Youtube". GitHub. October 23, 2018.
- ^ Excluding blocked countries.
- ^ Goodrow, Cristos (February 27, 2017). "You know what's cool? A billion hours". YouTube. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2021.
- ^ Loke Hale, James (May 7, 2019). "More Than 500 Hours Of Content Are Now Being Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute". TubeFilter. Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ^ Neufeld, Dorothy (January 27, 2021). "The 50 Most Visited Websites in the World". Visual Capitalist. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
- ^ Hooker, Lucy (February 1, 2016). "How did Google become the world's most valuable company?". BBC News. Retrieved May 26, 2021.