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YouTube

American  
[yoo-toob, -tyoob] / ˈyuˌtub, -ˌtyub /
Trademark.

  1. a brand name for a website on which users can post, view, or share videos.

verb (used with or without object)

YouTubed, YouTubing

  1. to post, view, or share (a video) on the YouTube website.

YouTube British  
/ ˈjuːˌtjuːb /

noun

  1. a website on which subscribers can post video files

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. (tr) to post (a video file) on the YouTube website

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Sidemen - a seven-strong group that includes content creators, musicians and boxer KSI - have more than 140 million YouTube subscribers between them.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

But when junior staffers collected data showing that viewers in several markets used the function regularly on YouTube, Hastings changed his mind.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

YouTube is now the nation’s largest podcasting platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Greg Silverman, global director of brand economics at Interbrand, notes that strong content curation is important as Netflix faces intensifying competition from YouTube and live TV platforms, along with possible consumer pushback on price hikes.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

While bringing up the Black, Vegan, and Proud YouTube channel, I sat hunched forward, mere inches from the screen.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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