YouTube video

Streamed internet content

A YouTube video is any video hosted on YouTube, the dominant video-sharing platform.

The term often implies amateur or independent content rather than traditional media: I learned to change my oil from a YouTube video.

It can suggest variable quality or credibility: He thinks watching a few YouTube videos makes him an expert.

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Program sent to screens

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Episodic digital audio series

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G