YouTube : Ask Biography

YouTube logo

Screenshot of YouTube's homepage

Dotcom Company

Type

Subsidiary,
limited liability company

Founded

February 14, 2005

Founder

Steve Chen
Chad Hurley
Jawed Karim

City

901 Cherry Ave,
San Bruno, California

Country

United States

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

Salar Kamangar, CEO
Chad Hurley, Advisor

Owner

Independent (2005 � 2006)
Google Inc. (2006 � present)

Slogan

Broadcast Yourself

Website

(see list of localized domain names)

Type of site

video hosting service

Advertising

Google AdSense

Registration

Optional (Only required for certain
tasks such as viewing flagged videos,
viewing flagged comments and
uploading videos)

Available in

34 languages available through user interface

Launched

February 14, 2005

Current status

Active

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YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February of 2005, on which users can upload, share and view videos.

The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.

Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18 years old and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.