·         Was first launched in November 2005 and is a website that allows you to upload clips, view and share clips.

·         The people who set it up were early employees of pay pal. They are Chad Hurley, Steve chan, Jawed Karim.

·         In July 2006 the company announced that 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day

·         Can upload videos with footage up to 15 minutes

·         Can now access YouTube on smartphones but on some phones you have to pay

·         You are able to see a music video an artist  has just brought out within a few minutes.

·         Has a platform with Google so they get some advertising of them and you are able to search for YouTube on Google.

·         Google has become a major media platform so television channels such as BBC have now joined with YouTube so that they can upload there episodes and people can watch them online for free.

·         Film companies now have come to an agreement to allow them to show the full length films on the site with accompany by adverts. You can now even watch 3D videos and movies.

·         YouTube tend to allow singer to live steam and do live concert online for example Live from the BT tower where different stars go and do an intimate gig wfor there fans. You can watch this on youtube and you can ask them questions .