YouTube is set to start charging a monthly fee for certain video channels. But most content will still be free.

YouTube will reportedly start charging around $1.99 a month for certain channels — not for the cats on skateboards, but high quality produced content.

Half the world's internet users visit the video site, but it's not known whether YouTube makes a profit or a loss for its owner, Google. Homemade squirrel videos aren't real attractive to advertisers.

YouTube announced that it’s reached a billion viewers per month, putting in the same league as its parent company Google and Facebook.

The site is a mecca for musical artists. Now their YouTube hits can send them to the top of the Billboard charts.

YouTube may slash funding to over half of its new channels and a plastic that repairs itself like skin heals itself, but faster.

More than 120 million Americans watch videos on YouTube every month, and yet the streaming video site is struggling to monetize that audience. YouTube videos are short — and, often, one-hit wonders.

The recent attacks on and killings of Americans in Libya over a YouTube video raises questions about the video site, freedom of speech and corporate ethics.

The comedy mogul who created "The Original Kings of Comedy" was recently one of four African Americans selected to partner with YouTube. He said his plan is to become the "better version of BET…but for the web."

But they do retweet them on anything else. Social media research indicates that voters might be in the mood for a broader discussion.