YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Kim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
The inspiration for the site came when Karim could not find videos online of Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl halftime show in 2004 or the Indian Ocean tsunami that same year. This led to the idea of a video sharing site.
YouTube went live in May 2005 with a public beta test and was officially launched in November 2005. 
By July 2006, 65,000 new videos were being uploaded each day and the site was receiving 1 million video views per day.
In October 2006 Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock.
Today YouTube displays a variety of user-generated content such as TV shows, video clips, music videos, video blogs, and educational videos. Most of the videos are uploaded by individuals but media corporations such as CBS, BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material on YouTube.
YouTube is available in over 60 languages and is the clear leader in online video sharing with 2 billion video views each day.
In February 2020, YouTube stated that it paid various music companies more than $3 billion in royalties in 2019.
Also in 2020, YouTube launched a third-party video subscription service in order to compete with Amazon and Apple.
YouTube maintains a corporate office in San Mateo, California.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Kim, who were all early employees of PayPal.
The inspiration for the site came when Karim could not find videos online of Janet Jackson’s infamous Super Bowl halftime show in 2004 or the Indian Ocean tsunami that same year. This led to the idea of a video sharing site.
History
YouTube went live in May 2005 with a public beta test and was officially launched in November 2005.
By July 2006, 65,000 new videos were being uploaded each day and the site was receiving 1 million video views per day.
In October 2006 Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock.
Today YouTube displays a variety of user-generated content such as TV shows, video clips, music videos, video blogs, and educational videos. Most of the videos are uploaded by individuals but media corporations such as CBS, BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material on YouTube.
YouTube is available in over 60 languages and is the clear leader in online video sharing with 2 billion video views each day.
In February 2020, YouTube stated that it paid various music companies more than $3 billion in royalties in 2019.
Also in 2020, YouTube launched a third-party video subscription service in order to compete with Amazon and Apple.
YouTube maintains a corporate office in San Mateo, California.
Hello “WORLD”, recently a $350.00 ‘plus’ attempt was placed on my account by something trying to follow my internet visits and who my relatives are on the Planet..I explained to them that I HAVE NEVER DOWNLOADED ANY “storage data” from YouTube since I was introduced to it {before they was born=untold unto them} but their reply was “YouTube does not know and wanted me to pay for a Disney attempt” seeking more money as all on file in their data base and my off net data base will confirm….Current status on Planet : disclosing financials to those whom appear to care for the Youth in AFFECT!…Caution My Nations of the pretenders asking to merge companies, apart of something else not disclosing to all families but giving away financial info in sworn to a oath WASTE….
Why has the account featuring Tucker Carlson Tonight been terminated? Is this one more effort by Google to stifle the majority of conservative Americans? A truly communist move.
I am having a problem that has not happened before. When I select to see a classical music video, I still may get the usual adds before video stars but now I can be watching the performance of a piano sonata, symphony or something else and DURING the performance the screen goes black and I have see one or two adds and then the screen goes back to the performance. This is very irritating. It never used to happen. Is this on purpose or is something wrong?
Vote for Trump in 2020, hope that helps you.
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The links above are that of an American traitor being utilized as a propaganda tool of the Kremlin.
Clearly, the intent of YouTube is being corrupted by Russia.
Therefore, I respectfully request that you shut down this racist, and thank you in advance for your due consideration.
Respectful Regards,
Please don’t use my name. Here is my request. Have a nearly unrestricted YouTube Premium site for adults over age 18. I feel your current YouTube Premium is far too restrictive in content and YouTube is being like a thought police by excessively censoring the posts of users.. Art, Science and Theater should not be censored.
Youtube announced my channel will be losing monetization: will YOU STOP PUTTING ADVERTISING ON MY VIDEOS TOO????? one goes with the other!! I have 2,800+ videos, 937,813 views and 347 subscribers. my short films, music videos and other content are seen in 60+ countries. DO I NEED TO TAKE ALL MY BUSINESS elsewhere? you need to LEAVE MONETIZATION ON MY CHANNEL.
University lectures on Youtube?
I’m am concerned about arts philosophy based university lectures on youtube an some sciences. Libreal arts is usally alternative and sometimes very contreversial. They also come up with a ot of B.S. before they stumble upon relevent factural research and theory. Libreal arts, Literary acedemics, political philosophy, philosophy utopias and imagery, are very very contreversial. People need to be well rounded, critical, and have passed high school with advanced math and science in order to paticipate in contreversial theories, discourses, and philosophies. There is supposed to be a strict screaning process for students. There are anti philosphies teaching alternative lifestlyes and even ciminalisations coming from anti=philosophic groups. Some of them are radical. Please consider devloping policies about univerity lectures on youtube, should theyhave a pasword from there schoo for university content? think about not putting contreversial philosophy on youtube. Please don’t expose the general public radicalisms (sanders?) This is just a request. Thank you You tube cor cor
I’m trying to get a phone number so I can speak to someone at the corporate office having a difficult time finding one somebody have a phone number
Hello you tube,
I would like you tube to stop shutting down my favorite you tube channels. Why? Are you demonetizing these channels that people enjoy. It’s not fair that good family channels are being penalized.
Dear you tube ,
Hello my name is Christopher Bennett and this is a HUGE complaint because there is a ON-LINE VIOLENT STALKER by the Channel Name of DR . Mije Smith and you guys have already terminated 3 of his you tube accounts for Violations of the you tube policy of on-line harassing , bullying , and threating and he is once again doing the same thing and because I took a stand against this person who is still harassing and Spreading false Lies about Melinda k Lyons from the last frontier medium , that I was defending because I have dealt with Violent stalking predators in the past and because of doing what is the right thing to do the Adirondack cook with Christopher” hawk eye” Bennett was terminated and this guy who is stalking Melinda k lyons on this site can continue unchecked and he can harass her cyberbully her and he can make threats against her and that is just 100% wrong and a miscarriage of justice as well .
respectfully ,
Mr. Christopher M Bennett . here is my contact info w/cell number for someone to call me from the security team or from the legal department .
olmstedville ny , 12857
mailing address .
cell : 518-524-XXXXX.
Can Susan , Jesse, or tom from the management team contact me so that this injustice can be corrected because I would of never been that way if this person would of never committed on-line cyberbullying against Melinda k lyons from the last frontier Medium because this issue needs to be resolved so that the Adirondack cook with Christopher ” hawk eye ” Bennett channel can be restored . PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ASAP.
Keep on censoring information 🙂 We love the new Orwellian Youtube! Now you can ensure that only state approved content has the privilege to post!! 25 minuntes of advertisement for 5 minutes of show….we love how you picked up Pandoras streaming advertisement business model. Youtube will now remove your videos and privileges if your content presents an opposing opinion from that of the overly sensitive cry babies who are running Youtube. America has been destroyed and no one knows it yet
hola estoy tratando de hacer una campana con un video pero no me deja pasar al ultimo paso que es pagar. mi cuenta esta con el nombre de marggio. mi correo registrado es marggio at live.com y necesito su ayuda en esto mi cell es 909210XXXXX
My content has been hijacked and the entity “Old School Stuff” is representing my content as “OldSchool Stuff.
The resolution offered in solutions, is to remove/take-down the entity.
What I want is to get my identity restored and my content retained with the same URL at the hijacked sites. In-addition, to perform an upgrade to your failed security system.
1) 1:23 sec. 1st. Stork Reality Birthday Proclamation Recipient’s Testimony
[*OldSchool Stuff] – Published on Aug. 26, 2015
youtu.be/pyKyqV2NSqU
2) :60 sec. The Stork Reality Song
[*OldSchool Stuff] Published on Aug. 19, 2015
youtu.be/ybxhSGXo8FU
I’m Emmett Abati Doe Head Stork
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Hi my name is Andre Baker i live in Los Angeles CA. Executive’s me and my family are asking for a settlement or we will have to file a lawsuit with the Southern California Racial Discrimination Lawyers. Allowing youtubers to call us F**King NI**ers on youtube is unacceptable it is in clear violation. Racism is defined by the united states civil rights commision such as any action. Please tell the Executives to get in contact with me ASAP sincerely Mr Baker.
WAAAH WAAAH PO PO DINDU. CAN’T TAKE ANY CRITICISM. CAN’T TAKE THE FIRST AMENDMENT CUZ THAT’S HATE SPEECH! YOU’LL GET OVER IT YOU F-ING NI**ER.
My fiancée Amy Koski and myself had some neighbors splice into my network and set up an account with your company using the following email address Amy.lynn.koski at livemail.com if you could review this account and look for sexual explicit images especially in a bathroom or bedroom setting please call me immediately at920 -378-XXXXX. We have an open case against Stephen J Zimmerman and Molly A Stark our former neighbors. With city of Menasha WI police Dept. with officer Gallager And with Greenbay FBi Field office with Special Agent Mike Meyers. Please forward your findings to these agencies. Thanks. Travis Willard Amy Koski
I just read below other comments and realized that it is entirely possible that you ban things simply based on trolls going after a site politically. If this doesn’t stop as your wayward criteria, I will get a team of people going night and day to troll every liberal site I can find night and day, till your flags kick in against them all. Two can play at this liberal attack troll censorship game (in that it appears that is what you did to unjustly shut ‘cringe heaven:) watch me. I get you guys, I can play your game as well:)
stop the recent free speech ban levied at conservative sites. My husband and I just discovered ‘cringe heaven’ and have watched it a lot. It has just now disappeared ( ten minutes ago). Censorship is communist and if this is the beginning of hijacking America, It needs to stop as quick as it is starting , at youtube. Or ban one of the millions of linbut sites that deeply offend our 72 member immediate family, for every shunning of the opposite genre. Frankly politicizing every area of the marketplace is getting nauseating. This civil war by elite corporations against everyday middle class Americans and Trump is getting boring and eventually, if not curtailed will come back to haunt your numbers, your business bottom lines and short lived ‘success’. Attacking the middle class that carries this country is a very bad business decision. We have come out of hiding and will not stand for your attacks on Trump and his solidly constitutional attempts to begin to make our country safe. I am very activist and connected, and will single handedly make you wish you had never attacked free speech if this partisan censorship on behalf of liberal regressives continues
If you really want to be a hero,YouTube, then fix your automatic closed captions. As the mother of a deaf daughter, I can tell you the hearing community is missing out on so much valuable information because your automatic closed captions are Way way off!
Look it up on your own site under ClosedCraptions!
I received two strikes today after uploading my radio show Ravenstar’s Witching Hour Hour One and Two which I have uploaded weekly for several years with no issues. It was flagged as inappropriate content. The content is clean and there are no violations. I am aware my show has been harassed and trolled by people attacking my page by reporting it to YouTube. You followed through taking my videos down due to this type of harassment and stalking by parties attacking myself and my show. I will be contacting your headquarters to have you remove these strikes a.s.a.p. There should be nothing on my page. You never bothered to investigate you simply removed my videos. My guest a well known film producer and myself are disgusted with your lack of professionalism. If this is not resolved I will have my lawyer get involved. I am tired of the abuse.
Hi YouTube Headquarters can you cancel commercials because I don’t like commercials they are annoying I need to watch the video?
I PAID 30 FOR A SEASON I HAVE ALREADY SEEN OF THE WALKING DEAD. AND IT DOESN’T LET ME WATCH IT. YOU SUCK, YOUTUBE SUCKS AND I HOPE YOU TAKE THAT F***ING 30 DOLLARS ARE SHOVE IT RIGHT UP YOUR *** I’LL BE CALLING EVERY F***ING DAY TILL I GET A F***ING ANSWER. F*** YOU. AND ALL THE WORKERS ARE ONLY GETTING PAID CAUSE YOU GOT F***ING 500 Adds ON THIS PAGE. Sorry for cussing if got me pissed off. BUT F*** YOU AND I WILL BE COMPLAINNG UNTIL I GET MY F***ING 30 DOLLARS BACK…..
Please call me. I have a thief using my iPad Mini and he must have a YouTube account since I am getting messages (Hispanic-related content) pertaining to his YouTube channel subscription to my Gmail account: pete****@gmail.com
If I have a name, I can contact the police and track location in West New York, NJ.
My phone #: 908 705 ****
I need to find out if any video I would place in you tube , that may create thousands of
viewers . Allthough it is not a business would I stand to make any money from it?
I need to talk to someone about this. And is this free or is there fee associated for this.
yours truly
gloria
Hello you tube I will be sending you some legal paper work regarding in reference to Sabrina Davis is because she is a abuser on the internet and my Lawyer is going to get in contact with your legal department is because she has broken the restraining order and computer hacking and copy right and play drum some and in enjambment and abusing Me Carmen Pena-Lora is because she has hacked into all my internet and plus my entire social media and plus she has made criminal threats towards my family such as going to their business and their children schools and hacked into militarily records of my brothers and his children and going on militarily base with a allies and hacking into peoples information and she hit me and left permit damages and I have a Disability and I am a client of the ELARC and with Esproniza Charts. Sabrina Davis should be band from all websites
Please know that I have a You tube account & for two of our independent doXXXXentary projects we are far surpassed then You tube ratings to receive monetary for both of our projects but You tube has declined us because they are saying that we are a third party using copyright material that isn’t ours. We submitted a rebuttal & challenge the restriction claim. We have permission & we have the mechanical agreement contract in which we have permission to use the song BIG BOY of the Jackson Five for all of our doXXXXentaries. We have permission from the original discover of the Jackson Five Gordon Keith aka William Adams to use the song. Please can you all uplift the the hold on our right to use the historical song. I’m Kenneth Joseph of Pretty Boy Films Inc. & I can be reached at pret****@gmail.com or @ 1 312 213 ****
Hi YOUTUBE Susan, Jesse ,or Tom the management staff. I am a professional liquidator living in the Southern part of the United States and as of this date all 14 members of my firm are barred from using your service through my company. I don’t like censorship of any type especially a preacher who was just telling like it is. Oh bye the way I’ve been in business 35 years and my 200,000 customer base which reaches as far as Peru. I am debating whether to inform them of your censorship. Oh one last thing keep my email before some smart LIQUIDATOR like me liquidates your ASS-sets you might need it. What a piss poor way to run a company. Have a nice day. OH a customer service e-mail section would be a smart move just thinking out loud.
-Please, Fix My Youtube Acct., from the unuseable status, something called, “null null.” -My site junder Youtube is”James G.”