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# YouTube

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> YouTube is a video hosting service designed to help individuals, video creators, and businesses search, discover, upload, and share videos. It allows users to create video channels based on specific topics, subscribe or follow other channels and organize videos in the form of playlists.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 914 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 914 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Google

## Commercial Context

- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Audio/video file upload
- Customer Support
- Live Captioning
- Live Streaming Software
- Reporting/Analytics
- Social Sharing
- Speech Recognition
- Subtitles/Closed Captions
- Text Overlay
- Time Stamps
- Video Editing
- Video Streaming

## Integrations (2 total)

- Instagram
- WordPress

## Category

- [Closed Captioning Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/3824/closed-captioning/software)

## Related Categories

- [Closed Captioning Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/3824/closed-captioning/software)
- [Video Hosting Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/3827/video-hosting/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Gumlet](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/2057532/gumlet) — 4.9/5 (202 reviews)
2. [SproutVideo](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/2057525/sproutvideo) — 4.8/5 (179 reviews)
3. [Vimeo](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/122755/vimeo-pro) — 4.6/5 (1045 reviews)
4. [Ignite](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/2079298/ignite-3) — 5.0/5 (31 reviews)
5. [Wistia](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/91511/wistia) — 4.7/5 (172 reviews)

## Reviews

### "A Creative and Profitable Video Tool" — 5.0/5

> **Maragaret** | *13 January 2026* | Arts & Crafts | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I am able to be a creator, using my video skills. Creating YouTube Channels helps me to enhance my art and my desire to create helpful information.
> 
> **Cons**: Getting strikes for using specific words that are appropriate to describe specific content. Many YouTube Creatives have run into this problem.
> 
> My experience has been positive.  I have used YouTube for over ten years for myself and my clients when I promoted books for authors. 2026 promises to be a great year for creators.  I intend to take my channels to the next level this year.  It's easy to be a creator, as long as specific user details are followed.  I also like that videos can be easily shared from YouTube on websites and other platforms.

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### "YouTube and the aspirations of a creator" — 5.0/5

> **Evandro** | *20 November 2024* | Accounting | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The ability to get paid to inform people or producing valuable content whine growing your brand and reaching more people in the world.
> 
> **Cons**: They pay per view depending from where you watch the content.
> 
> I started using YouTube to study and transition to having finance decision advice from some of the creator and has been an informative and wise decision.

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### "Transferred Videos to Rumble and Private Hosting" — 2.0/5

> **Ken** | *20 March 2025* | Public Relations & Communications | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: No cost to use the platform an we can have multiple channels.
> 
> **Cons**: The capricious and arbitrary manner in which management enforces its own rules.  It makes pornographic content accessible to children.
> 
> Absolutely poor. The management/help desk is invisible. Response to complaints such as pornographic content is either extremely slow or absent.

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### "YouTube is a Daily Staple, and nothing really competes" — 5.0/5

> **Breanna** | *11 December 2025* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's free. It's mostly easy to use. It hosts videos effectively and makes them easy to share. There's quite a few handy features like branding and automatic fill-in. Video quality is customizable.  I also use youtube every day for its content, for learning, music, etc.
> 
> **Cons**: I've not needed customer support but I've heard from other users mixed reviews. I dislike ads, and so I pay for premium.
> 
> I am a daily user and have paid for premium since it came out, and I think it's worth it. I use it for background music, tutorials, uploading, sharing, etc.

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### "How do I...? Oh Wait" — 5.0/5

> **Parker** | *03 December 2025* | Music | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: You tube has been one of those apps where you could either spend the majority of your day learning about valuable information like how to change your oil in your car, or you could spend your day watching the dramatic-filled conquests of various creators. The choice is yours and i have always loved that about you tube.
> 
> **Cons**: The ads within the videos, before the videos, and after they are done. 
The algorithm sometimes makes for more personable content and the ability to get into niche content that you normally wouldn't watch. This is both a pro and con
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> Overall, the ability to learn new ideas, concepts, drama, news, and anything else you can think of is on the app. From decade old videos to fresh uploaded videos, there is always something to get into.

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