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YouTube is celebrating its 20th birthday

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published May 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM CDT
A YouTube sign is shown near the company's headquarters in San Bruno, California. (/Jeff Chiu/AP)
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A YouTube sign is shown near the company's headquarters in San Bruno, California. (/Jeff Chiu/AP)

YouTube is officially 20 years old.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd reflects on two decades of the video sharing platform with Mark Bergen, author of “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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