YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. Founded by three former PayPal employees in 2005, it was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion a year later, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and initially used Adobe Flash Video technology 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.[1] Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site.
Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Accounts of registered users are called "channels".
Videos that are considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users over the age of 18. The uploading of videos containing defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms of service.
In 2015 Adobe Flash was deprecated, in favour of HTML5, due to its use of an adaptive bitrate, and the VP9 codec.[1] Taking advantage of these these technologies offers considerable improvements in how much data can be transmitted. Also, some new devices, like Smart TVs, require these technologies.
References
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Rich McCormick (2015-01-28). "YouTube drops Flash for HTML5 video as default". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2015-01-28. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for its default web player.