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{{Short description|Video-sharing  and social media platform owned by Google}}
{{Short description|Video-sharing  and social media platform owned by Google}}
{{For|the company's channel on YouTube|YouTube (YouTube channel)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Use American English|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox website
{{Infobox website
| name = YouTube
| name = YouTube
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| caption = YouTube search results
| caption = YouTube search results
| collapsible =
| collapsible =
| company_type = [[Subsidiary]]
| company_type = Subsidiary
| type = [[Online video platform]], [[Social media platform]]
| type = [[Online video platform]], [[Social media platform]]
| founded = {{start date and age|2005|2|14}}
| founded = {{start date and age|2005|2|14}}
| location = 901 Cherry Avenue<br />[[San Bruno, California]]
| location = 901 Cherry Avenue<br />San Bruno, California
| country = United States
| country = United States
| area_served = Worldwide (excluding [[censorship of YouTube|blocked countries]])
| area_served = Worldwide (excluding blocked countries)
| owner = [[Google LLC]]
| owner = [[Google LLC]]
| founder = {{ubl|[[Steve Chen]]|[[Chad Hurley]]|[[Jawed Karim]]}}
| industry = Video hosting service
| key_people = {{ubl|[[Neal Mohan]] (CEO)|Chad Hurley (advisor)}}
|url-status=live }}</ref>
| industry = {{ubl|[[Internet]]|[[Video hosting service]]}}
| parent = Google LLC (2006–present)
| products = {{ubl||[[YouTube Kids]]|[[YouTube Music]]|[[YouTube Premium]]|[[YouTube Shorts]]|[[YouTube TV]]}}
| url = {{URL|https://youtube.com/}}
| revenue = {{increase}} {{USD|31.5}}{{nbsp}}billion (2023)<ref name="Weprin">{{cite web |last=Weprin |first=Alex |date=February 1, 2022 |title=YouTube Ad Revenue Tops $8.6B, Beating Netflix in the Quarter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-ad-revenue-tops-8-6b-beating-netflix-in-the-quarter-1235085391/ |access-date=June 11, 2022 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608081933/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-ad-revenue-tops-8-6b-beating-netflix-in-the-quarter-1235085391/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| parent = [[Google|Google LLC]] (2006–present)
| url = {{URL|https://youtube.com/}}<br />(see [[#International and localization|list of localized domain names]])
| content_license = Uploader holds copyright (standard license); [[Creative Commons]] can be selected.
| content_license = Uploader holds copyright (standard license); [[Creative Commons]] can be selected.
| programming_language = [[Python (programming language)|Python]] (core/API),<ref>{{cite web |last1=Claburn |first1=Thomas |title=Google's Grumpy code makes Python Go |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/05/googles_grumpy_makes_python_go/ |website=The Register |access-date=September 16, 2017 |language=en |date=January 5, 2017 |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214142433/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/05/googles_grumpy_makes_python_go/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[C (programming language)|C]] (through [[CPython]]), [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]] (through [[Google Guice|Guice]] platform),<ref>{{cite web|title=Guice Deuce |url=https://googlecode.blogspot.no/2009/05/guice-deuce.html |website=Official Google Code Blog|first=Jesse |last=Wilson|archive-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326225735/http://googlecode.blogspot.no/2009/05/guice-deuce.html |url-status=live|date=May 19, 2009 |access-date=March 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://highscalability.com/blog/2008/3/12/youtube-architecture.html |title=YouTube Architecture |publisher=High Scalability|archive-date=October 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004091618/http://highscalability.com/blog/2008/3/12/youtube-architecture.html|url-status=dead|access-date=October 13, 2014}}</ref> [[Go (programming language)|Go]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Golang Vitess: a database wrapper written in Go as used by Youtube |website=[[GitHub]] |url=https://github.com/youtube/vitess |date=October 23, 2018 |access-date=September 16, 2017 |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130213332/https://github.com/youtube/vitess |url-status=live }}</ref> [[JavaScript]] (UI)
| advertising = Google AdSense
| advertising = [[Google AdSense]]
| registration = {{Collapsible list
| titlestyle      = font-weight:normal; text-align:left; background-color:transparent; color: inherit;
| title          = 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
}}
| users = {{decrease}} 2.7 billion [[Monthly active user|MAU]] (January 2024)<ref name="forbes-stats">{{Cite web |title=Top Social Media Statistics And Trends Of 2023 – Forbes Advisor |url=https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/social-media-statistics/ |access-date=June 15, 2023 |website=Forbes |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614094637/http://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/social-media-statistics/ |url-status=live }}</ref><!--2.562=2022-->
| users = {{decrease}} 2.7 billion [[Monthly active user|MAU]] (January 2024)<ref name="forbes-stats">{{Cite web |title=Top Social Media Statistics And Trends Of 2023 – Forbes Advisor |url=https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/social-media-statistics/ |access-date=June 15, 2023 |website=Forbes |archive-date=June 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614094637/http://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/social-media-statistics/ |url-status=live }}</ref><!--2.562=2022-->
| launched = {{start date and age|2005|12|15}}
| launched = {{start date and age|2005|12|15}}
| current_status = Active
| current_status = Active
}}
}}
'''YouTube''' <!-- Do not add informal or colloquial names, abbreviations, or other terms of the sort here --> is an American [[social media]] and [[online video platform|online video sharing]] platform owned by [[Google]]. YouTube was founded 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 [[List of most-visited websites|second-most visited website]] in the world, after [[Google Search]]. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion [[monthly active user]]s, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day.<ref name="1 billion hours">{{cite web|title=You know what's cool? A billion hours |url=https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/you-know-whats-cool-billion-hours|last1=Goodrow |first1=Cristos|date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806062438/https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/you-know-whats-cool-billion-hours/|via=YouTube |language=en-US|archive-date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=April 19, 2021 }}</ref> {{as of |May 2019}}, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of [[Content (media)|content]] per minute,<ref name="500 hours per minute">{{cite news |title=More Than 500 Hours Of Content Are Now Being Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute |work=[[TubeFilter]] |location=Los Angeles, CA |url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/ |last1=Loke Hale |first1=James|access-date=June 10, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105143621/https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/ |url-status=live|date=May 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Neufeld |first=Dorothy |date=January 27, 2021 |title=The 50 Most Visited Websites in the World |url=https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-50-most-visited-websites-in-the-world/ |access-date=December 6, 2021 |website=Visual Capitalist |language=en-US |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210024145/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-50-most-visited-websites-in-the-world/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and {{As of|2023|lc=y}}, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=McGrady |first=Ryan |date=2024-01-26 |title=What We Discovered on 'Deep YouTube' |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>
'''YouTube''' <!-- Do not add informal or colloquial names, abbreviations, or other terms of the sort here --> is an American [[social media]] and [[online video platform|online video sharing]] platform owned by [[Google]]. YouTube was founded 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 [[List of most-visited websites|second-most visited website]] in the world, after [[Google Search]]. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion [[monthly active user]]s, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day.<ref name="1 billion hours">{{cite web|title=You know what's cool? A billion hours |url=https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/you-know-whats-cool-billion-hours|last1=Goodrow |first1=Cristos|date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806062438/https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/you-know-whats-cool-billion-hours/|via=YouTube |language=en-US|archive-date=August 6, 2020 |access-date=April 19, 2021 }}</ref> {{as of |May 2019}}, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of [[Content (media)|content]] per minute,<ref name="500 hours per minute">{{cite news |title=More Than 500 Hours Of Content Are Now Being Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute |work=[[TubeFilter]] |location=Los Angeles, CA |url=https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/ |last1=Loke Hale |first1=James|access-date=June 10, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230105143621/https://www.tubefilter.com/2019/05/07/number-hours-video-uploaded-to-youtube-per-minute/ |url-status=live|date=May 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Neufeld |first=Dorothy |date=January 27, 2021 |title=The 50 Most Visited Websites in the World |url=https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-50-most-visited-websites-in-the-world/ |access-date=December 6, 2021 |website=Visual Capitalist |language=en-US |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210024145/https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-50-most-visited-websites-in-the-world/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and {{As of|2023|lc=y}}, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=McGrady |first=Ryan |date=2024-01-26 |title=What We Discovered on 'Deep YouTube' |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>


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