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YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
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Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an unlimited number of videos.
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YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005.
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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 and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
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The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video.
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Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006.[21] Google does not provide detailed figures for YouTube's running costs.
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Google’s February 7, 2007 SEC filing revealed the breakdown of profits for YouTube’s investors after the sale to Google
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In September 2008, The Daily Telegraph commented that YouTube was "notorious" for "some of the most confrontational and ill-formed comment exchanges on the internet", and reported on YouTube Comment Snob, "a new piece of software that blocks rude and illiterate posts
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This issue has also been taken up in scientific analysis. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams argue in their book Wikinomics that YouTube is an example for an economy that is based on mass collaboration and makes use of the Internet.
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In December 2010, YouTube added "promotes terrorism" to the list of reasons that users can give when flagging a video as inappropriate.[63]
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Youtube has bad scenes such as sexual stuff and fights how to build inappropriate stuff.
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During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing websites on the Web.
