The company also made technological enhancements and forged agreements with film studios to resolve copyright issues that plagued the platform during its early days, once described as the Wild West of ...

YouTube on Wednesday celebrated more than 20 billion videos being uploaded to the platform since the first clip debuted two decades ago.

Janet Jackson’s career was negatively impacted after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, but it seemingly became the driving force behind the creation of YouTube.

The very first video uploaded on YouTube, titled Me at the zoo, was shot in the San Diego Zoo. In the video, the co-founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim, was seen calling the elephant trunks cool.

The video-streaming platform has revolutionized how we watch things. Here’s a timeline of its biggest moments.

It only seems like YouTube has been around forever. It actually had a slow start and a change of mission before it became a video-sharng juggernaut.

Twenty years ago, YouTube's first video went viral—captivity still pays the price ...

On its 20th anniversary, YouTube now says that since Karim’s video was posted, more than 20 trillion videos have been ...

Jawed Karim uploaded the first-ever Youtube video. Trillions more followed.

Jawed Karim posted the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, the website he co-founded with two friends a couple of months prior. The 19-second “Me at the zoo” is brief and innocuous enough that you ...

Did you know elephants have long trunks? The first YouTube video delivers that little-known bit of animal knowledge -- and ...