Histroy of YouTube
YouTube logo since October 22, 2024 Design history of the video player used by YouTube. Each layout generation might have gone through minor undocumented iterations, and that appearance may vary with embedding parameters. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California , founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley , Steve Chen , and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries . YouTube allows users to upload videos , view them, rate them with likes and dislikes , share them, add videos to playlists, report, make comments on videos, and subscribe to other users . The slogan "Broadcast Yourself" used for several years and the reference to user profiles as "Channels" signifies the premise upon which the platform is b...