It's impossible to know when YouTube will stop attracting visitors, but with large swaths of the world's population still awaiting reliable internet access - primarily in the ever-expanding Asian and African markets - we can expect YouTube to continue to grow.
American businessman and internet entrepreneur, Chad Hurley stands at a tall height of 1.
In June 2007, YouTube added an option to watch videos in format on mobile phones.
The process breaks when the platform interferes with it.
Those who consider it a search engine use the fact that one must search for content to watch it as an argument to support their position, but advocates of it being a social media site point to the site's dependence on user-generated content as a means for classifying it in the same category as sites such as Facebook and Instagram.
The ban was lifted on May 27, 2010, after the website removed the objectionable content from its servers at the request of the government.