youtube.com

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youtube.com

YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

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Truth score

Truth score 95 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mixed

95/ 100

High truth signals

Top 1% of businesses we’ve checked

Business details

Category: Streaming and on-demand video
Founded: 2005
Kind of seller: Information or media
Licensed trade: No licence normally needed
Domain age: 21 years
Address: 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066
Email address: Not found
Phone number: +1 650-253-0001
Contact page: youtube.com/t/contact_us/
Website: youtube.com
Social media

Customer reviews

SiteReviewsRating

Trustpilot11,560 reviews

SmartCustomer1,086 reviews3.1

App Store6,252,641 ratings4.6

Total6,265,287

Customer satisfactionMixedFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

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Summary

Is youtube.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 95 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 of 11 public checks clear, 1 not found, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mixed.

We read 3 of its pages: contact, about and privacy. Its website address was registered 21 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is among the 200 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar). No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find social media profiles or an email address.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

Positives

We read 3 of its pages · contact, about and privacy.
Its website address was registered 21 years ago.
It is among the 200 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar).
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Not found

Social presence information was not found from our checks.
Email address information was not found from our checks.

Our technical team has been informed.

What they offer

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

— YouTube, in their own words

Getting help

YouTube offers support and help through their help page, which can be found in the sources below.

SourcesIts homepage Contact us

How to check if youtube.com is legit

To check if youtube.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about youtube.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsBased in the US; founded in 2005 (Wikipedia)

Country

Where the company is based: US
Why we believe that: OpenData.org's record puts its head office in 1 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA, 94066, USA

Registration

SEC registration (CIK): 0001343726

From Wikipedia

Trade name: text: YT, language: en
Industry: Internet industry
Founded: 2005
Area served: worldwide
Employees: 2000
Revenue: 31500000000 United States dollar

From OpenData.org

Listed name: YOUTUBE, LLC
Trading names: YOUTUBE.COM

Locations

Head office (OpenData.org): 1 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA, 94066, USA
Number of locations: 1

Business databases

Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youtube

SourcesWikipedia

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 21 years ago

Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else

Domain age: 21 years
Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes

Website detailsWe read 3 of its pages: contact, about and privacy

Company contact phone number is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +1 650-253-0001
Contact page found: Contact page

What its pages say

Quoted word for word from youtube.com.

Ways to contact them: “For any abuse issues on the site, please contact us through the Abuse and Policy Centre .” Contact page
In their own words: “Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world. We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories.” About page

SourcesHomepage About page Privacy page Contact page

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews12,646 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 3.1 to 3.1 out of 5

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	11,560
SmartCustomer	3.1 out of 5	1,086
G2	Not found
Capterra	Not found
Reviews.io	Not found
Feefo	Not found
Trustindex	Not found
Google	Not checked

App StoreIts app, YouTube, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 6,252,641 ratings, counted in the reviews total.

App: YouTube
App Store page: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/youtube/id544007664
App Store rating: 4.6 out of 5
App Store ratings: 6,252,641

Visitor trafficIt is among the 200 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 1,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200 sites

Web history and authorityFound: wikipedia page

Wikipedia page: yes

SourcesWikipedia

Social presenceIts website links to its profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube

Platform	Profile	Audience
Facebook	Profile	Unknown
Instagram	Profile	Unknown
X	Not checked
LinkedIn	Profile	Unknown
YouTube	Profile	Unknown
TikTok	Not checked

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Collects where you are.: “The types of location data that we collect and how long we store it depend in part on your device and account settings.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.