YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California . It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen , Chad Hurley , and Jawed Karim . It is owned by Google , and is the second most visited website, after Google Search . YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users [7] who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. [8] As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. [9] [10] In October 2006, 18 months after posting its first video and 10 months after its official launch, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. [11] Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube....
