Does YouTube send bulk unsolicited emails (spam)?

No one likes spam, including us.

By default YouTube generates email notifications to provide users with information regarding their account. To change what emails you receive as a YouTube user, you can edit your Email Options (http://youtube.com/my_profile_email).

YouTube also generates emails when users share videos with friends or invite them to join. To receive fewer emails from friends, you can go to your Email Options page and select the radio button next to either:

“Send a digest of the events above, instead of individual emails”

or

“Don't send any emails for the above events”

Some emails purporting to be from YouTube or containing what appears to be a link to a YouTube video may in fact be spam sent by a third party or malicious links generated by a virus. If you think you've received one of these messages, you may want to contact your antivirus company, update your antivirus definitions, and/or run a virus scan of your computer.