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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 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.
Musical.ly was a social media app that let users create and share short videos with music. Learn how it started, how it became popular, and why it was merged with another app in 2018.
Dec 10, 2018 · TikTok is a global video-sharing app that lets users lip-sync, dance, and create comedy sketches with music and effects. It was launched in 2017 by ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, and acquired Musical.ly, a similar app, in 2018.
Musical.ly, the short-form video app with 100 million users, is no longer available. Bytedance, its parent company, has merged it with TikTok, another short-form video app with 500 million users worldwide.
May 12, 2021 · Musical.ly was a shortform video app that let users lip-sync, edit, and share clips with music and effects. It spawned a generation of online stars like Baby Ariel and the Sway House, and influenced the style of TikTok.
May 28, 2016 · Musical.ly users made more than 164,000 lip-synching videos a day to Lukas Graham's new song. Selena Gomez is currently running a "Kill Em with Kindness campaign" to promote her new song.
