YouTube
About YouTube
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.
Businesses can utilize YouTube Advertising to create video advertisements, configure campaigns in various formats, and track performance using measurement tools. Parents and caregivers can utilize YouTube Kids to customize and improve kids’ online experience by allowing them to only view approved content. It also offers a YouTube Music application, which allows individuals to stream music and discover trending media.
Other features include video recommendations, privacy controls, ad settings, parental controls, auto-play functionality, and more. Businesses can also embed videos on websites, associate brand domain names with the channel, engage the audience using illustrations, audio cues, and text across videos, and share videos across social media channels.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An entertaining platform
Reviewed on 2024/05/05
Overall, YouTube as a platform has definitely shaped my life. I've been able to watch different...
Overall, YouTube as a platform has definitely shaped my life. I've been able to watch different kinds of videos, from movies about cats to learning materials on different topics. My life has really changed due to YouTube, which is an opportunity for content creators from all over the world to reach their audiences. YouTube remains the platform I constantly turn to for entertainment, learning, and motivation, significantly changing my relationship with media and globally.
Pros
There are so many things to like about YouTube. The variety of content is mind-blowing, from entertainment to sports to news, these content make me open my YouTube app everyday. Some features I like about the platform is the ability to download, save and like videos and the different kinds of engagement I can have with my subscribed channels. I also love the recommendation algorithm which seems to know me more than myself...haha. YouTube has so many adorable features.
Cons
YouTube gets better with every update though one problem I have is the ads. Sometimes the ads are long and most times it interrupts me when I'm watching a video. I would really like for YouTube to update this so that ads won't display in the middle of videos.
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Essential tool for educators
Reviewed on 2023/10/09
I have been using YouTube as a user since the launch in 2005.I have also used it to share content...
I have been using YouTube as a user since the launch in 2005.I have also used it to share content when I started my business and shared hundreds of video blog contentsIt always was very intuitive and easy to useThe fact that everybody knows about it makes it easy to share content to clients and friend alike
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ease of useUniversalitySearch engine is greatAmount of content is awesome
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AdvertisingThe way Youtube manages copyright infringement... algorithm based and mostly inefficientThe way the app on the iPhone makes it difficult to search history
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VimeoReasons for Switching to YouTube
I use Vimeo for my business storage because of the way the content is protected but Youtube for the universality of it.This is a no brainer for anybody!- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
YouTube for everyone
Reviewed on 2022/10/07
YouTube is a great way to share videos to a global audience, it is easy to use with great additional...
YouTube is a great way to share videos to a global audience, it is easy to use with great additional tools but be aware of their strict policies on what content and videos are allowed to be posted, best to have a license or rights and be able to show.
Pros
YouTube is easy to use, with it's drag and drop function anyone can easily post videos, they do the conversions themselves. They also have basic editing tools to enhance your video. YouTube is a widely accepted video sharing service and well known world wide giving users the ability to have an audience from just about anywhere. We also liked it's very detailed analytic tools that users can get very detailed information on where visitors are viewing their video, age, gender, even what interests visitors have.
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Very strict and restrictive on allowing the kind of posts, sometimes even remove videos that are free to share by anyone without providing rights for posting. They also don't have a direct customer support option, most problems are handled by FAQs or community support sites.
- Industry: Civic & Social Organization
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy to use as a creator or user
Reviewed on 2024/08/06
I use Youtube as a creator as well as a user and fine it easy to use on both ends.
I use Youtube as a creator as well as a user and fine it easy to use on both ends.
Pros
Variety of topics covered and information to learn/watch
Cons
auto play - I can lose time to non relevant information
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VimeoReasons for Switching to YouTube
Nature of getting content out there - everyone knows youtube- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
YouTube rocks!
Reviewed on 2024/04/15
Easy to use, fun to look at, gives me somewhat of a social platform. I follow others on it as well....
Easy to use, fun to look at, gives me somewhat of a social platform. I follow others on it as well. I enjoy consuming information on it as equally as I enjoy uploading my own videos. I like that it’s connected directly to google as well.
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I like YouTube, it’s really simple to use, easy to post videos, easy to upload the videos, and it’s super handy as it creates a link that I can send to others. Sometimes when I want to send a video and it’s too large to send, I will upload it to YouTube and end people that link.
Cons
Nothing. It’s great. I also like it for my own personal consumption
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Zoom WorkplaceReasons for Switching to YouTube
YouTube offers different things than zoom does, zoom is mainly for video calls.YouTube FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for YouTube.Q. Who are the typical users of YouTube?
YouTube has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200
Q. What languages does YouTube support?
YouTube supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does YouTube support mobile devices?
YouTube supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does YouTube integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations YouTube has
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