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Musical.ly (pronounced "Musically", stylized as musical.ly) was a social media service headquartered in Shanghai with an American office in Santa Monica, California, on which platform users created and shared short lip-sync videos.
Musical.ly is a social media platform that enables its users to create, share, and discover video-based content. Musical.ly was shut down because its owner, ByteDance, wanted to merge its technology and userbase into another app.
Musical.ly was a Chinese app that became popular for lip-syncing videos and was acquired by TikTok's parent company in 2017. Learn about its origins, features, funding, and why it shut down in 2018.
- The first version of the app was officially launched in August 2014.
- Musical.ly was shut down in mid-2018 after being acquired by ByteDance, which is the company that owns TikTok.
- The company was shutdown because the new owners, Bytedance wanted to incorporate its technology and userbase into TikTok.
- Bytedance merged the user accounts of Musical.ly in August 2018.
Become a music video star with musical.ly. Choose a song, record music videos, and share them with your friends with the musical.ly app.
Bytedance, the owner of TikTok, has merged Musical.ly and TikTok under one roof. Existing Musical.ly users can access their accounts, content and followers on the new TikTok app, which has more features and global reach.
May 12, 2021 · Musical.ly was a shortform video app where teens lip-synced to songs and edited them with funny effects. It spawned a style of digital filmmaking and launched the careers of stars like Baby Ariel and Charli D'Amelio.
Aug 2, 2018 · Musical.ly, the lip-sync video app, is absorbed into sister app TikTok, owned by ByteDance. The new app combines the features and users of both platforms and aims to capture the world's creativity and knowledge.
