YouTube is a hotbed for the 2016 United States election, considering presidential candidates have already used the platform to post about their respective campaigns and with voters publishing their own clips reacting to those views.
On Wednesday, Google took its political presence a step further by announcing that it will work with NBC News to live stream the Democratic Candidates Debate on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, from 9 to 11 p.m. EST.
This will actually be a key debate, as it's the final Democratic presidential debate before the first caucus and primary votes are cast. Hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, and moderated by Lester Holt, live from Charleston, S.C., the debate will air on NBC and be live streamed on the NBC News YouTube channel.
Viewers watching the Democratic debate closely on YouTube will even have the opportunity to get involved. That's because the debate will feature questions from the YouTube community with Democratic candidates doing their best to tackle the social network's most-intriguing inquiries with helpful answers.
In addition, any viewers tuning into the live stream debate will be part of Google Trends data that's generated.
Although the fever for the presidential race is raging right now, Google points out that YouTube has always been a home for world politics.
The tech company says that since 2005, users have watched more than 5 million hours of news on YouTube daily.
And that number will only increase dramatically from here until November.
