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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries .
In March 2009, a dispute between YouTube and the British royalty collection agency PRS for Music led to premium music videos being blocked for YouTube users in the United Kingdom. The removal of videos posted by the major record companies occurred after failure to reach an agreement on a licensing deal. The dispute was resolved in September 2009.
YouTube (formerly YouTube Spotlight) is the official YouTube channel for the American video-sharing platform YouTube, spotlighting videos and events on the platform. Events shown on the channel include YouTube Comedy Week and the YouTube Music Awards .
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The governing Conservative Party , led by the prime minister , Rishi Sunak , was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Keir Starmer .
youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [2] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [3] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [4] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [5]
The original video by Pinkfong is now the most viewed video on the site. On October 29, 2020, Baby Shark surpassed 7 billion views, and on November 2, 2020, it passed Despacito to become the most viewed video on YouTube. On February 23, 2021, Baby Shark surpassed 8 billion views, becoming the first video to do so.
The song became the first track by a UK female to reach number one since Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in 1987. Lewis's third single, a double A-side featuring "Better in Time" and "Footprints in the Sand", was released in the United Kingdom in March 2008, in aid of Sport Relief, and she visited South Africa for the charity.
As of 4 January 2023, the UK's most downloaded song of all the time was "As It Was" by Harry Styles, which became the U.K.'s top-selling single and album. [1] In 2021, "Bad Habits" by Ed Sheeran became one of the most streamed song of the year. In the year of 2020, "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry Ft. MNEK became one of the most trending songs of ...