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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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Ben Weston, who runs a YouTube channel about North Korea, visited a special economic zone near the China and Russia borders last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

His YouTube channel, where he films 'day in the life' videos, has 1.6m subscribers while he is also set to feature in animated film ViQueens as the voice of a Viking, named, of course, Haaland.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

In a cyber age where most consumers get their news from social media and watch YouTube channels on their TVs instead of cable, the peak influence of broadcasters like CBS has long been diminished.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

Alphabet is expected to generate about $231 billion of Ebitda in 2026 from search, YouTube, Waymo, Android, cloud services, and Gemini.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

“I’m not posting it on YouTube or anything,” I say.

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

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