YouTube

YouTube, LLC
The YouTube logo is made of a red round-rectangular box with a white triangular "play" button inside and the word "YouTube" written in black.
Logo used since 2017
Screenshot of the video player on September 13, 2023
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
Online video platform
FoundedFebruary 14, 2005 (2005-02-14)
Headquarters901 Cherry Avenue
San Bruno, California,
United States
Area servedWorldwide (excluding blocked countries)
OwnerAlphabet Inc.
Founder(s)
Key people
Industry
Products
RevenueIncrease US$28.8 billion (2021)[1]
ParentGoogle LLC (2006–present)
URLyoutube.com
(see list of localized domain names)
AdvertisingGoogle AdSense
Registration
Optional
  • Not required to watch most videos; required for certain tasks such as uploading videos, viewing flagged (18+) videos, creating playlists, liking or disliking videos, and posting comments
UsersDecrease 2.514 billion MAU (January 2023)[2]
LaunchedFebruary 14, 2005 (2005-02-14)
Current statusActive
Content license
Uploader holds copyright (standard license); Creative Commons can be selected.
Written inPython (core/API),[3] C (through CPython), C++, Java (through Guice platform),[4][5] Go,[6] JavaScript (UI)

YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide,[7] it was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users,[2] who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day.[8] As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute,[9][10] and as of 2023, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total.[10]

In October 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $2.22 billion in 2022).[11] Google expanded Youtube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube incorporated Google's AdSense program, generating more revenue for both Youtube and approved content creators. In 2022, YouTube's annual advertising revenue increased to $29.2 billion, more than $9 billion higher than in 2020.[1][12]

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 and feature films, songs, documentaries, movie and teaser trailers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals, including collaborations between "YouTubers" and corporate sponsors. Established media, news, and entertainment corporations have also created and expanded their visibility to YouTube channels in order to reach greater audiences.

YouTube has had unprecedented social impact, influencing popular culture, internet trends, and creating multimillionaire celebrities. Despite its growth and success, the platform is sometimes criticized for allegedly facilitating the spread of misinformation, the sharing of copyrighted content, routinely violating its users' privacy, enabling censorship, endangering child safety and wellbeing, and for its inconsistent or incorrect implementation of platform guidelines.

  1. ^ a b Weprin, Alex (February 1, 2022). "YouTube Ad Revenue Tops $8.6B, Beating Netflix in the Quarter". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 8, 2023. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Top Social Media Statistics And Trends Of 2023 – Forbes Advisor". Forbes. Archived from the original on June 14, 2023. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  3. ^ Claburn, Thomas (January 5, 2017). "Google's Grumpy code makes Python Go". The Register. Archived from the original on December 14, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  4. ^ Wilson, Jesse (May 19, 2009). "Guice Deuce". Official Google Code Blog. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  5. ^ "YouTube Architecture". High Scalability. Archived from the original on October 4, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  6. ^ "Golang Vitess: a database wrapper written in Go as used by Youtube". GitHub. October 23, 2018. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
  7. ^ Excluding blocked countries.
  8. ^ Goodrow, Cristos (February 27, 2017). "You know what's cool? A billion hours". Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2021 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Loke Hale, James (May 7, 2019). "More Than 500 Hours Of Content Are Now Being Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute". TubeFilter. Los Angeles, CA. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Neufeld, Dorothy (January 27, 2021). "The 50 Most Visited Websites in the World". Visual Capitalist. Archived from the original on December 10, 2021. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  11. ^ Hooker, Lucy (February 1, 2016). "How did Google become the world's most valuable company?". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  12. ^ "YouTube Revenue and Usage Statistics (2023)". Business of Apps. Archived from the original on September 6, 2023. Retrieved August 9, 2023.

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