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YouTube
| YouTube | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | San Bruno, Calif. |
| Type: | Limited Liability Company |
| Top official: | Neal Mohan, CEO |
| Founder(s): | Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim |
| Year founded: | 2005 |
| Website: | Official website |
YouTube is a limited liability company owned by Google Inc., a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. The company is based in San Bruno, Calif.[1][2]
Background
YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.[3] According to a USA Today article, YouTube was created in response to the difficulty of locating online videos of the 2004 Asian tsunami and/or of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction."[4] Karim uploaded the first YouTube video, called "Me at the Zoo," in April 2005.[5] Google purchased YouTube for $1.7 billion a year after its founding, and by its tenth year in 2015, YouTube was the third most popular web domain globally and received visits from about one billion people daily.[4][6][7] As of August 2025, YouTube was the second most viewed website in the world with nearly 52 billion monthly visits.[8]
On its website, YouTube says its mission is to "give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories."[1]
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Leadership
Neal Mohan became the CEO of YouTube in 2023.[9]
Work and activities
Presidential debates (2015-2016)
- See also: Presidential debates (2015-2016)
On December 16, 2015, NBC News announced that it would co-host the fourth Democratic debate along with YouTube and the Congressional Black Caucus. NBC Nightly News Anchor Lester Holt moderated the debate, which took place from 9 to 11 p.m.[10] YouTube offered online viewing of the debate at YouTube.com and NBCNews.com, with coverage beginning at 8 p.m.[11]
Finances
Google Inc., a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, owns YouTube. The company's stock is traded publicly as GOOG on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. GOOG's closing stock price on August 5, 2025, was $195.75.[1][12]
Recent news
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See also
- What is an influencer?
- Charleston, South Carolina NBC News/CBC Democratic debate (January 17, 2016)
- San Bruno, Calif.
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 YouTube, "About YouTube," accessed January 14, 2016
- ↑ YouTube, "Contact Us," accessed January 14, 2016
- ↑ TechCrunch, "Chad Hurley's Take From The Sale Of YouTube: $334 Million," March 18, 2010
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 USA Today, "Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder," October 11, 2006
- ↑ AllThingsD, "The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed," March 19, 2010
- ↑ Google, "Company," accessed January 14, 2016
- ↑ The Economist, "YouTube's Birthday Make a Wish," April 23, 2015
- ↑ Backlinko, "Top 100 Most Visited Websites in the World," July 30, 2025
- ↑ The Times of India, "Who is Neal Mohan? An Indian-American to become CEO of YouTube," February 17, 2023
- ↑ Politico, "NBC and YouTube to co-host Democratic debate on Jan. 17," December 16, 2015
- ↑ NBC News, "How to Watch the NBC News-YouTube Democratic Debate," January 15, 2016
- ↑ NASDAQ, "GOOG," accessed January 14, 2016
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