YouTube

About YouTube

Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. See our company timeline for more information on our company history.

Getting Started

We've put together a step-by-step guide to get you started on YouTube.

YouTube Essentials

A list of the essential YouTube tools and features that help you view, discover, share, personalize, and upload videos.

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Community Guidelines

Read up on our guidelines for participating in the YouTube community.

Contact Us

Find contact information for our various departments.

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Careers

Want to work at YouTube? Check out our careers page to hear from current employees and find available positions.

Merchandise

Sunglasses, T-shirts, backpacks—we've got a whole online store filled with YouTube merchandise for your purchasing pleasure.

YouTube for Developers

Bring YouTube to any screen, any time.

Want to bring YouTube to your users? The YouTube APIs and Tools enable you to integrate YouTube's video content and functionality into your website, app, or device.

Featured Apps

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Featured Videos

Overview

Integrate with YouTube

Customize the YouTube player

Collect and moderate video submissions from your users

The Data APIs let you incorporate YouTube functionality into your own application or website. You can perform searches, upload videos, create playlists, and more.

The Player APIs give you control over YouTube video playback on your website. Configure basic settings, drive the player interface, or even build your own player controls.

YouTube Direct Lite allows you to easily solicit user generated content from your site visitors, moderate the submissions, and display them on your site.

Getting started

Embed videos on your site

Get video feeds

Upload videos from your site or app

It's easy to display YouTube videos on your site and customize the player -- using the iframe embed, player parameters or the Player APIs.

From the most popular videos feed to the top rated, YouTube Data APIs provide many standard feeds to help you search and display the videos you want.

Use the YouTube Data APIs to upload videos directly. We have client libraries in many programming languages to make it easy for you.