YouTube allows users to upload videos, view them, rate them with likes and dislikes, share them, add videos to playlists, report, make comments on videos, and subscribe to other users. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees- Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim– in February 2005. Note that each layout generation might have gone through minor undocumented iterations, and that appearance may vary with embedding parameters. Design history of the video player used by YouTube.
