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YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet's Google.The service is designed with an interface that allows users to simultaneously explore music audios and music videos from YouTube-based genres, playlists and recommendations.
On May 18, 2016, YouTube Red and YouTube Music launched in Australia and New Zealand, the first countries to gain access to the service outside the United States. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] On August 3, 2016, YouTube Red support was added to the YouTube Kids app. [ 21 ] On December 6, 2016, YouTube Red expanded to South Korea .
In March 2007, YouTube launched the YouTube Awards, an annual competition in which users voted on the best user-generated videos of the year. [44] The awards were presented twice, in 2007 and 2008. Video contests with prizes existed as early as December 2005, possibly earlier.
YouTube originally offered videos at only one quality level, displayed at a resolution of 320×240 pixels using the Sorenson Spark codec (a variant of H.263), [29] [30] with mono MP3 audio. [31] In June 2007, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 3GP format on mobile phones. [32]
The most public place in the world, from the privacy from our own homes: YouTube has been used for many things: a political soapbox, a comedian's stage, a religious pulpit, a teacher's podium, or just a way to reach out to the next door neighbor or across the world. To people we love, to people we want to love, or people we don't even know.
Name Type MAU Year Ref YouTube: video 2,680,000,000 2023 [1]Tencent Video: video 597,000,000 2023 [2]TikTok: video 1,060,000,000 2023 [3]Tencent Music: music
In August 2016, Warner Music Group (WMG), the world's third-largest record company, agreed to license premium videos from its artists to Vevo. [ 7 ] Initially, the service hosted only music videos from UMG and SME, syndicated on YouTube and its app, [ 8 ] and the advertising revenue was shared by Google and Vevo.
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.