What is the name of Google's video sharing platform?

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Google’s video-sharing platform is YouTube. The service lets users upload, watch, share, comment on, and livestream video, and it has grown from a simple website into one of the world’s largest online media platforms.

YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who had previously worked at PayPal. The first video, “Me at the zoo,” was uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005. Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion in Google stock, helping the platform expand its advertising, creator, mobile, and subscription businesses.

The main confusion in this question is ownership. YouTube is operated as a Google service, but its ultimate corporate parent is Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company since the 2015 restructuring. Twitch, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and other services also host video, but they are separate platforms and are not Google’s video-sharing service.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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