YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and as of mid-2024,... Wikipedia
- Type of business: Subsidiary
- Founded: February 14, 2005
- Area served: Worldwide (except blocked countries)
- Owner: Alphabet Inc.
- Revenue: $31.5billion (2023)
- Parent: Google LLC (2006–present)
- IPv6 support: Yes
- Advertising: Google AdSense
- Users: 2.7billion MAU (January 2024)
- Launched: April 23, 2005
- Current status: Active
- Written in: Python (core/API), C (through CPython), C++, Java (through Guice platform), Go, JavaScript (UI)