YouTube is a US online video-sharing platform based in San Bruno, California. The service was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Javed Karim. Google bought the site in November 2008 for 1.75 billion. YouTube currently serves as one of Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, evaluate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It presents a wide range of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live stream and video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most content on YouTube is uploaded privately, but media corporations, including CBS, BBC, Vivo, and Hulu, provide some of their content via YouTube as part of the YouTube Partnership Program. Registered users will not only be able to watch (but not upload) videos on the site, but registered users are also allowed to upload and comment on an unlimited number of videos. Only registered users are allowed to view age-restricted videos by acknowledging themselves to be at least 18 years old.
YouTube and selected creators earn advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program that targets ads by site content and audience. Most of YouTube's videos are free to watch, but subscription-based premium channels, movie rentals, as well as subscription services, including YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, are all exclusive to premium and ad-free music streaming and commissioned personalities. As of February 2016, YouTube had more than 400 hours of content uploaded per minute and one billion hours of content viewed per day. As of August 2016, Alexa is the second most popular site in the world according to the Internet, after Google. [2] As of May 2019, more than 500 hours of video content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. [6] $ 15 billion is estimated.
In order to handle the copyrighted content contained in the videos uploaded to YouTube, [8] the algorithm reportedly suspended videos that promote conspiracy theories and lies [9]. Violent or sexually explicit material involving popular characters in videos aimed at children, [10] attracting pedophilic activity in the video comments section for minors, [11] and the type of content that is suitable for monetization in advertising.
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