YouTube is a video sharing organization founded in 2005 by former PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is now the third most popular website in the world and is currently owned by Google. More than a billion accounts are registered on the website and 6 billion hours of footage from the site are viewed each month. The success of the website has greatly benefited people's lives and stories and helped change global issues. It has also helped create many new businesses and help them succeed. Above all, he has helped teach, inform and entertain an incredibly large online community. YouTube content basically covers every topic one can think of. This can range from light comedy sketches to cat videos to news articles from around the world that are easy to access and watch. The large number of channels can add videos that can discuss any topic they want and get views and likes from other accounts. This can be a great motivation for the uploader to continue adding content to the large community. This can turn into a YouTube partnership where they make money by uploading high-quality videos, which means they can make a career out of it. The fact that there is a wide variety of videos uploaded can mean that anyone can be educated, entertained, inspired, or light a fire within themselves for change. A simple video can change a person's view on a certain topic, that person can go on to change the opinions of others, etc. YouTube as a whole can be very influential and can possibly change the way the world views different businesses. video has the potential to change global issues if taken seriously and if it is in the right middle of paper... if it is anything. This can be used as a tool to bring slow but positive changes to society and ultimately change everything for the better. The internet is often overlooked because there are often negative news stories linked to it. However, while more and more people are becoming successful thanks to the Internet, why do you never hear about it? Why is everyone wary of more and more people being able to live a good life through websites like YouTube? These are the questions that need to be answered, because once they are answered, many concerns should be lifted and even more progress will be made for the better. yt/press/en-GB/ www.my.charitywater.org www.thetrevorproject.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Oakley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewdiepie http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxA4VSQ18o