YouTube

American

[yoo-toob, -tyoob] / ˈyuˌtub, -ˌtyub /

Trademark.

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

verb (used with or without object)

YouTubed, YouTubing

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

YouTube British

/ ˈjuːˌtjuːb /

noun

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

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

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In March, a US court jury found that Google - which also owns YouTube - and Meta, which operates Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, intentionally built addictive social media platforms.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Die-hards are paying top dollar while the rest of the country rarely goes to the theater and gets most of their entertainment from Netflix, YouTube and TikTok.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

YouTube star Piotr Hancke, known online to his millions of followers as Latwogang, raised the cash by broadcasting from a flat in Warsaw.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

But even if one could, the Coachella that exists on YouTube is now squarely some other third thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

You can also listen to piano performances using this tuning by searching for "CHAS tuning" at YouTube.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

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