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YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPalemployees in February 2005.^[3]

The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 ^[4] 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 asvideo 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.^[5]

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 and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube