YouTube is a video sharing platform where unregistered users can watch videos and registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. It was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, who were early employees of PayPal. Users can watch music clips, TV shows, movies, learn languages, subscribe to channels, upload their own videos, comment, and search for content on YouTube. The YouTube Awards were created in 2007 for the YouTube community to recognize the most popular videos from the previous year through voting.

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2. 1. Slogan, logo:

3. 2. How does it work? Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Example of a video in youtube:

4. 3. Owner, Key people: Steve Chen. He is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chad Meredith Hurley. He is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jawed Karim. The last co-founder. Owner:

5. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal . Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania , while Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of llinois at Urbana- Champaign History: According to a story that has often been repeated in the media , Chad Hurley and Steve Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco .

6. Some things to do on youtube… -watch music clips -see a tv program -watch a film -learn a language or something else -subscribe a channel -do your own channel -upload videos -comment -search for stories -teacher online

7. The awards were organized in 2007 to "call out some of the most popular videos and let the users choose which ones deserve some additional recognition". The awards are the first time that videos would receive any formal recognition; previously, high-ranking videos were only recognized by dynamic lists of most-viewed videos. The winners received a trophy, which was a stand with a large glass "play" button. In addition, they received an invitation to an event to occur "later this year". YouTube awards . The YouTube Awards are awards given out as formalized recognition of the best YouTube videos of the preceding year, as voted by the YouTube community.