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# YouTube

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> YouTube is a video hosting service designed to help individuals, video creators, and businesses search, discover, upload, and share videos. It allows users to create video channels based on specific topics, subscribe or follow other channels and organize videos in the form of playlists.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 914 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 914 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Google

## Commercial Context

- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Audio/video file upload
- Customer Support
- Live Captioning
- Live Streaming Software
- Reporting/Analytics
- Social Sharing
- Speech Recognition
- Subtitles/Closed Captions
- Text Overlay
- Time Stamps
- Video Editing
- Video Streaming

## Integrations (2 total)

- Instagram
- WordPress

## Category

- [Closed Captioning Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/3824/closed-captioning/software)

## Related Categories

- [Closed Captioning Software](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/3824/closed-captioning/software)
- [Video Hosting Solutions](https://www.getapp.com.au/directory/3827/video-hosting/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Gumlet](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2057532/gumlet) — 4.9/5 (202 reviews)
2. [SproutVideo](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2057525/sproutvideo) — 4.8/5 (179 reviews)
3. [Vimeo](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/122755/vimeo-pro) — 4.6/5 (1045 reviews)
4. [Ignite](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/2079298/ignite-3) — 5.0/5 (31 reviews)
5. [Wistia](https://www.getapp.com.au/software/91511/wistia) — 4.7/5 (172 reviews)

## Reviews

### "YouTube is a Daily Staple, and nothing really competes" — 5.0/5

> **Breanna** | *11 December 2025* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It's free. It's mostly easy to use. It hosts videos effectively and makes them easy to share. There's quite a few handy features like branding and automatic fill-in. Video quality is customizable.  I also use youtube every day for its content, for learning, music, etc.
> 
> **Cons**: I've not needed customer support but I've heard from other users mixed reviews. I dislike ads, and so I pay for premium.
> 
> I am a daily user and have paid for premium since it came out, and I think it's worth it. I use it for background music, tutorials, uploading, sharing, etc.

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### "Quiet Good" — 4.0/5

> **Wee Kiang** | *25 December 2025* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: It teach me a lot of tutorial and can learn especially the product I purchased, and it help me alot.
> 
> **Cons**: Learn all the thing I am interested and even sometime I can watch movie and listen to songs I like..
> 
> My experience is quite good and I am also a subscribe which I can watch without advertisement at all.

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### "So not child friendly" — 3.0/5

> **Elizabeth** | *1 February 2025* | Automotive | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The ability to watch music videos or how to videos in one place
> 
> **Cons**: The amount of ads, and innapropriate "shorts" videos.
> 
> It was pretty great until this past year when i started to realize the amout short reels on youtube were innapropriate

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### "Majestic Beast." — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *11 December 2025* | Environmental Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: We can go to you tube for a any information we do not understand. It is very educational or entertaining.
> 
> **Cons**: I cant say I do not like much of you tube. Besides the ads I think the app is perfect. It has the oldies and the newbies.
> 
> It has been great, I go to you tube when something breaks and I need to fix, or if its something at work I dont understand. Or simply watching tv while cooking from youtube channel I follow.

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### "My awesome experience on Youtube" — 5.0/5

> **Charlie** | *20 January 2026* | Sports | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I like the fact that it has a good quality videos.
YouTube is very efficient in content creation.
I like the fact that it has a lot of nice features like “link to TV “ features, background play feature, etc. 
I like the fact that it is very easy to use.
I like the fact that video hosting is so easy to do.
I like as it is so affordable
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> **Cons**: I don’t really like their customer support team because they are not easy to reach out to.
I don’t like the too much of ads
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> I have had a great experience on YouTube.
It is such a great social media platform where I stream live videos, watching posted videos. It has a very high quality videos . They should just work on ads as it disturbs sometimes.

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