YouTube has become a popular video website throughout the world. Since 2005, it has been providing great entertainment to the viewers. Everyone was able to find the content of their choices. It has also helped other people to trace the audience for their content and make huge revenues from their videos. Nowadays, more than 500 hours of new videos are uploaded every single minute on YouTube.

More than 2 billion people watch YouTube every month

The popularity of YouTube can be imagined from the fact that more than 70% of Russians use YouTube as their news source. Russians have lost their interest in the TV and switched to the video streaming website for entertainment as well as news. More than 2 billion people watch YouTube every month.

Reports suggest YouTube has 10,000 years of watching

Over the years, the site has become quite popular and attractive for the users. New studies and reports reveal that the future of content is video. For this reason, most of the bloggers have become vloggers with their channels. Users also find videos more attractive. Its monthly users are also increasing in leaps and bounds.

How YouTube Policies on Users?

None of you might have thought that YouTube is policing on whatever you watch and share on the site. When you search for something on the site, it also affects your Google searching trend. It does show the relevant ads on various websites as you browse them. Your Facebook newsfeed also starts to show similar ads and sponsored content.

The tragic incident of Christchurch shooting in the mosques reveals a lot of things. Shooter of the incident lives streamed the shooting on social media site, Facebook. Soon the video was available on YouTube. The CEO of YouTube got messages and was asked to remove the shooting videos from the website.

She along with her developers’ team started deleting the videos. They were unable to handle the content. They thought they had done with the videos. But on the next day, they found thousands of videos. Even the content was being searched with generic keywords. So they decided to remove the videos with human review.

This story shows that YouTube failed to deal with violent content. On the other side, it also shows YouTube policies on everything a person shares and watches on the website. Most of the sites tell their users their data is not recorded or stored. But this is just a hoax. They do spy on the users.