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 * **YouTube** is a video sharing website created in February 2005 and founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim


 * Based in San Bruno, California


 * Users can upload, view and share videos.


 * Uses Adobe Flash Player and HTML5 technology in order to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.


 * Most content uploaded by individuals, however, some corporations such as CBS, BBC, VEVO and Hulu offer some of their material using the site as part of the Youtube partnership programme.


 * Videos managed by unregistered users and registered users. Unregistered users may watch videos, whereas registered users may upload an infinite amount of videos on to the site. Videos containing potentially offensive material are available only to users over the age of 18.


 * As of November 2006, **YouTube** was bought by Google for an estimated $1.65 billion and now operates as Google's subsidiary.