YouTube is a video-sharing website where users can upload, watch, and share videos. The majority of the site's content is user-generated, with users uploading more than 6 billion hours of video each month.
Further, YouTube is the most popular video platform in the world, and it hosts the highest-quality videos and shows. From the comfort of your living room, you can watch thousands of your favorite clips, full movies, and TV shows. And each week, Google Play Music will introduce you to thousands of incredible new songs.
It is a community-driven video platform where artists and creators can earn money from advertisements that appear in their videos. YouTube also contributes to the globalization of entertainment, education, and information.
YouTube is owned by Google and operates on a freemium business model, allowing anyone to sign up for an account without paying. The website has stated that it will change the revenue split between creators and advertisers in the future, but for the time being, the split is 70/30.
YouTube has grown to be one of the most popular websites in many countries, including the United States, where it is also known as YouTube.com or YouTube.com/nocomments, and the world's largest video platform and community for expressing and discovering niche content.
YouTube is founded in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. YouTube allows users to upload, view, and share videos that other users can view.