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- YouTube is a massive online video platform that was acquired by Google nearly two decades ago.
- YouTube's most-viewed video currently has over 14 billion views.
- It's easy to make your own YouTube channel, but profiting from it is notoriously difficult.
YouTube is the world's largest online video platform, with some 2.7 billion monthly users. Over time, it has evolved from an amateur video-sharing website into a multimedia powerhouse.