“ Customers find the YouTube app easy to use, particularly on Fire TV, and appreciate that it works like the regular YouTube website.
Download the YouTube app for a richer viewing experience on your smartphone.
In January 2010, YouTube introduced a film rentals service, available in many
countries, and TV shows can be bought in several countries.
YouTube had $29.2 billion ads revenue in 2022, up by $398 million from the prior year.
On February 16, 2023, Wojcicki announced that she would step down as CEO, with Neal Mohan named as her successor.
In 2020, Roku removed the YouTube TV app from its streaming store after the two companies were unable to reach an agreement.
After a 2018 complaint alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the company was fined $170 million by
the FTC for collecting personal information from minors under the age of 13.
In response to EU officials requesting that such services reduce bandwidth
to make sure medical entities had sufficient bandwidth to share information,
YouTube and Netflix said they would reduce streaming
quality for at least thirty days as to cut bandwidth use of their services by 25% to comply with the EU's request.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when most of the world was under stay-at-home orders, usage of
services like YouTube significantly increased. YouTube released a mobile app known as YouTube Kids
in 2015, which was designed to provide an experience optimized for children.
Google Play Movies & TV formally shut down on January 17, 2024, with the web
version of that platform migrated to YouTube as
an expansion of the Movies & TV store to desktop users.
YouTube began offering free-to-view movie titles to its users in November 2018;
selections of new movies are added and others removed, unannounced each month.
YouTube Movies & TV is a video on demand (VOD)
service that offers movies and television shows for
purchase or rental, depending on availability, along with a
selection of movies (encompassing between 100
and 500 titles overall) that are free to stream, with interspersed
ad breaks. On May 22, 2018, the music streaming
platform named "YouTube Music" was launched for people who
mostly listen to music on YouTube. As of September 2019, the
app is available in 69 countries, including Hong Kong and Macau, and one province.
YouTube Kids is an American children's video app developed by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. ”