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What Is YouTube?

Video hosting platform that helps businesses upload, monetize videos, stream live videos and more.

Who Uses YouTube?

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Reviews of YouTube

Average score

Overall
4.8
Ease of Use
4.8
Customer Service
4.2
Features
4.6
Value for Money
4.5

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  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

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5
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4
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3
3%
Revanth
Revanth
Application engineer in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Top and Best Platform for Video sharing and Steaming

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: YouTube experience was amazing, from uploading new videos to live streaming. It help companies to reach wider audience for their specific niche. Live streaming is like free Webinars, just sharing the link is enough, customers or audience are very familiar with how YouTube works, so it helped us a lot to save time for explaining things like how to join, which platform to join, how to interact with streaming person and more. User experience was just top notch, everything works smoothly with no issues.

Pros:

YouTube is an excellent platform for both large Firms and small creators, to showcase their new or unique ideas to ever increasing audience. YouTube has so much userbase, that videos easily gets large amount of views. To meet this requirement their are also a wide variety of consistent YouTube creators who fullfill all the searches in YouTube. Businesses have been getting many customers from running Ads in YouTube. More the audience or views, more will the chances of getting leads or sales. One of the biggest advantage is YouTube is free. If I continue to explain more the list will be too much, So I would suggest whoever thinking about getting into YouTube either for business or as a creator to go for it, since it's free and versatile.

Cons:

Their is nothing I don't like about YouTube. Didn't got any issues while using it.

Ghadeer
Freelancer in Iraq
E-Learning, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

“ the whole world in one app “

5.0 last month New

Comments: You can learn a lot of things on YouTube. I viewed a lot of marketing and advertising-related content, which was really helpful to me in my profession. The app also provided me with solutions to challenges I encountered while working as an advertiser.

Pros:

Large companies and small artists alike can promote their innovative or distinctive ideas to an ever-growing audience on YouTube. YouTube has such a wide user base that videos easily receive many views. There are numerous reliable YouTube creators who satisfy all YouTube searches in addition to this condition. Running YouTube ads has been bringing in a lot of business. The likelihood of generating leads or revenues will increase as the audience or views increase. One of YouTube's main benefits is that it's free. If I go on, the list will be too long. Therefore, I advise everyone considering entering YouTube, whether for personal or professional reasons, to do so.

Cons:

There are some shorts that are inappropriate for me, therefore when I click the "not interested" button next to one of them, it keeps coming up. I hope YouTube fixes this issue because the button can be really frustrating at times.

Ismail
Marketing in Algeria
Marketing & Advertising, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

What is so good about YouTube?

3.0 4 weeks ago New

Pros:

YouTube is an open platform that anyone can use to share their ideas and great way to connect with other people who share your interests.

Cons:

I do not like the difficulty of communicating with support staff, the complexities of communication that affect the quality of services

Sandeep
Sandeep
Student in Nepal
Verified LinkedIn User
Veterinary Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Youtube : An Unstoppable Source of Information and Entertainment

4.0 3 months ago

Comments: It has been a good and a reliable source of information for me as well as a medium that i can rely for entertainment.

Pros:

You can surf any videos of your choice. The searching option is so good that if you search certain part lf the lyrics it will show you the full song. The YT shorts are making the YT more fun to use today as the market is overwhelmed by TikTok short videos. YT offers you the popular videos and songs ac to your region you are staying. It's free to Log in and to Upload videos. You can also use YouTube for monitization. Videos warn you if the contents can trigger certain group of people beforehand.

Cons:

There are not much Cons but what i hate the most is even when I don't subscribe certain channels i get notifications from them if i have watched there videos in the past. Youtube doesnt let you download the videos into your cell directly but has a option of in-built offline downloads within application. The most annoying part are the advertisement that appears in YouTube.

Mohamed
digital marketing specialist in Egypt
Marketing & Advertising, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

self-learning

5.0 2 months ago

Comments: YouTube give you an learning trip in your life, you can learn a lot of things, I watched a lot of content about marketing and advertising and that helped me a lot in my work, the app give me ways to solve my problems in my work as an advertiser.

Pros:

I like the YouTube software and the ease of using the app, it's so important for self-learning you can find all the courses in the app, the timestamp on of the best feature it save a lot of time, I like the quality of YouTube, you can find also what content you like and subscribe to them to find what do you like when you open the app and that is very cool cause there is some contents that its not appropriate to you as a user.

Cons:

there is some shorts that it's not appropriate for me, so when I click on not interested in this shorts it comes again and again I hope YouTube fix this problem and fix the not interested button cause some time it's very annoying.