Well, a majority of media on YouTube is made by individuals. There are also content from YouTube partner programs like CBS, the BBC and other others.
Most of the content on Youtube nowadays is too heavily monitored and shut down nowadays.
I love watching youtube videos, when i start i cannot stop its like a endless recommendation loop :D Indeed, it was made by former PayPal employees in February 2005. Yes, its the most viewed multimedia place, if you can call it that way, in the world! Yes, Google decided to buy it for US $1.65 billion. YouTube is now a part of Google's subsidiaries. Yes, all in all a good investment by google, every minute, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, crazy right :D It is interesting. There is a lot of different content made by users and corporations. Yes there are some crazy specific stuff you can see there, i like fail/win videos also car crashes
Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but media corporations including CBS, the BBC, Vevo, and Hulu offer some of their material via YouTube as part of the YouTube partnership program.