What is YouTube

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Learn all About YouTube and How it Can Enhance Your Life

Youtube is a free video sharing website that was launched to allow people to share their own videos.

Today users are able to watch political debates, instructional videos much like the one you’re watching right now, music videos, listen to music from your generation, watch full length classic movies, cooking programs and so much more.

Basically whatever you’re interested in, you can find a video about it on YouTube.

In addition to watching videos that others have uploaded, you can also create your own channel to upload your very own videos to share.

All for free.

Check out these crazy YouTube statistics as of 2019:

• The total number of people who use YouTube – 1,300,000,000.
• 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute!
• Almost 5 billion videos are watched on Youtube every single day.
• YouTube gets over 30 million visitors per day

You do not need to have an account to watch videos, however, there are many features YouTube offers to members that often come in handy such as:

• Subscribing to Channels
• Saving Videos
• Making Playlists

Let’s start with making an account!