Why is it said that ‘YouTube’ is one amazing invention?

       As we know, YouTube was introduced as an online portal to share video files by three technology enthusiasts Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim in 2005. From this small video community, it grew to become the second largest online search engine right behind Google.

       Headquartered in San Bruno, California, YouTube enables users to upload, download, view, rate, share and comment on its videos. Users without accounts can indeed watch most of the video content for free. But there are exceptions, as in the case of subscription based premium channels. For watching their content, one needs to pay a fixed amount.

       The success of YouTube was such that by 2014, the site had 800 million users in a month. Besides, 300 hours of new videos were uploaded to the site every minute in 2014. Hence, it can be said without a doubt, that the invention of YouTube has changed the world of IT as well as entertainment.