YouTube is the most popular video-sharing website in the world where any user can view, upload, and share videos like music videos, movie clips, and TV clips through cyberspace. Three former Paypal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim created the site in 2005.

Based in San Bruno, California, the website uses Adobe Flash and HTML5 technology to show a wide range of user content. The site is available in 34 languages. Adult-related content is only allowed access to viewers 18 years or older. In 2006, Google Inc. purchased YouTube LLC and the video site is now a subsidiary of Google. Chen and Karim studied computer science at the University of Illinois and Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

YouTube began as a technology startup from a $11.5 million investment. The first video uploaded was Me at the Zoo, featuring Karim. The site grew very quickly and by 2006 the company received over 65,000 new videos every day in addition to 100 million video views every day.

According to YouTube, thirty-five hours of videos are uploaded to the site every minute. In 2000, Youtube bandwidth consumption equaled that of the entire Internet. Today, YouTube is the third most visited site behind Google and Facebook.