System Design: YouTube
Explore YouTube as a global video-streaming platform that enables users to upload, watch, and interact with content on a massive scale. Learn how its popularity is driven by rich creator content and a highly scalable, high-availability system that delivers videos efficiently to billions of users.
What is YouTube?
YouTube is a global video streaming service where users upload, stream, search, and interact with content. Both individuals and businesses maintain channels to host videos. As a primary source of entertainment, it ranks second-most viewed website after Google, according to
A depiction of a content creator uploading a video to YouTube that many viewers will stream
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