YouTube's reported revenue for 2020 was $19.8 billion. YouTube and approved creators participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. In October 2006, 18 months after posting its first video and 10 months after its official launch, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. Owned by Google, it is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Python (core/API), C (through CPython), C++, Java (through Guice platform), Go, JavaScript (UI)
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