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Watch videos and podcasts on Youtube through the app, even stream and download content to your channel

Watch videos and podcasts on Youtube through the app, even stream and download content to your channel

What is YouTube

Founded in the year 2005 by Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Harley, YouTube is a video streaming platform stationed in San Bruno, California. YouTube was officially acquired in the year 2006, and in the time that it has operated, YouTube has amassed over one billion active users; this figure constitutes approximately 33 percent of the active Internet user base.

Since its launch, localized versions of YouTube have been introduced to over 80 foreign countries. The streaming website can be browsed in any one of over 70 different languages. YouTube currently holds the most comprehensive Content ID database on the globe, with over 50 million active reference files from over 8,000 copyright holders.