YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, [7] by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7 billion monthly active ...