YouTube is a video sharing website launched in 2005 that allows users to upload and share video clips in MPEG-4 format. It was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. In November 2006, YouTube was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion and is now a subsidiary of Google operated out of San Bruno, California. YouTube hosts a wide variety of user-generated video content including movie clips, TV clips, music videos, video blogging, and short original videos.