YouTube’s quick growth made the platform increasingly expensive to operate. The company needed additional computer equipment, broadband capacity, and funds to address possible copyright lawsuits, yet it had achieved only limited success in generating revenue. At the same time, Google’s own video-sharing service, Google Video, had failed to attract substantial traffic. This prompted Google to acquire the company for $1.65 billion in stock in November 2006, its largest acquisition at that time.
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