Offered by Google LLC, YouTube is a platform for users around the world to watch, share, upload and create videos, which is also the world’s largest video-sharing application. With 2.6 billion monthly active users, it’s obvious that YouTube’s user base is huge and large. As a platform that is open to the world, YouTube has video content in not only English, but also Portuguese, Spanish, French and other languages from around the world. The high level of expertise and depth of video content streamed on YouTube has made it the second-largest search engine in the world.

As the most engaging online video destination, YouTube has a wide variety of videos, allowing users to explore and discover a diversity of information every moment they use it. Whether you want to learn, watch the news, follow fashion trends or watch the most popular music videos, YouTube can always satisfy all your needs.

More importantly, YouTube enables users to subscribe to or follow their favorite vloggers, channels or even other users so that users can be notified first when there are newly-uploaded videos. Besides, there is no need to worry that you might be watching videos out of order. YouTube also has a library section where all the videos you’ve watched, liked, or saved are included into these categories automatically, leaving you with a smooth, systematic video viewing experience. It’s also available for users to add their favorite videos into playlists they made so as to have a more organized watching experience.

More than just watching, there is no better place than YouTube that provides a great platform for creative users with fresh ideas to build their own channels and showcase their personal world of innovative ideas to the whole world by uploading videos on it.

On Google Play, YouTube has so far received a rating of 4.2 stars together with 145M reviews. The app has been downloaded more than 10B times. On App Store, YouTube receives a score of 4.7 stars out of 5. There are altogether 28.3M ratings.

1. As the world’s largest video platform, whether it’s for knowledge propagation, narrating movies, reporting news or sharing gaming experiences and insights on fashion, it enables users with different objectives to upload, share and watch a wide variety of videos from around the world.

2. Users can also find communities on YouTube through the comments section and interact with creators and other YouTubers.

3. YouTube also makes intelligent recommendations about the kinds of videos that users are inclined to like based on their past habits of commenting, liking or saving videos.

Pros:

1. YouTube not only offers users a comprehensive information source, but also allows users from all over the world to freely express their creative ideas in the form of videos.

2. Instead of downloading several video editing applications, YouTube empowers its users to directly form their own innovative ideas into video works, which can be directly edited and uploaded on YouTube to communicate with global users.

Cons:

As a platform for user-generated content, YouTube has a lot of work to do in terms of content moderation and rating filtering as some content that isn’t appropriate for that age group still pops up.

In terms of the practical experience, YouTube is a comprehensive video-sharing and watching application covering a diverse range of categories, providing users around the world with an endless amount of interesting and knowledgeable content in the form of numerous videos.