YouTube Stories (originally YouTube Reels) allowed creators to post temporary videos that would expire after seven days. Launched November 29, 2017; shut down June 26, 2023 — it lived 5 years. One of 15 Google products killed in 2023. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, all of whom were former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of video per minute, and as of mid-2024, there were approximately 14.8 billion videos in total. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23736246/youtube-ending-stories-shorts-community-posts Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).