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| url = {{URL|https://youtube.com/}}
| url = {{URL|https://youtube.com/}}
| content_license = Uploader holds copyright (standard license); [[Creative Commons]] can be selected.
| content_license = Uploader holds copyright (standard license); [[Creative Commons]] can be selected.
| advertising = Google AdSense
| 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}}
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'''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>