YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.

In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.

Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content).

The uploading of videos containing defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct is strictly prohibited. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube’s second year, functions were added to enhance user ability to post video ‘responses’ and subscribe to content feeds.

How Can Social Media Helper Benefit You With YouTube?

Just like other social networking sites – getting people to come see your stuff means you need to go see their stuff. Do you have the time and resources to go out and comment and review other short films, clips, videos on your own all the time? We’re happy to go find what is most interesting and relevant to your realm for you.

We’ll be happy to be your marketing-arm from your site. Give us a list of the genre you’re most interested in and we’ll out and mingling with the folks you want to see your videos. It can take a lot of your work week to keep on top of all the more than 100,000 videos added each week, but trust us, we can handle it and start creating buzz with folks in no time! Give us a shot to see if we’re worth your time and money.