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Musical.ly (pronounced "Musically", styled as musical.ly) was a social media service headquartered in Shanghai with an American office in Santa Monica, California, [1] on which platform users created and shared short lip-sync videos.
- What Was Musical.Ly?
- The Musical.Ly Story
- How Did Musical.Ly Work?
- What Happened to Musical.Ly?
- Why Did Musical.Ly Shut Down?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Wrapping Up
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Officially launched in August of 2014, Musical.ly was a video-based social media platform that allowed users to share and view short video clips from 15 seconds to one minute long. Users could select from different songs to add as soundtracks to their videos, and the app helped give rise to the popular lip-sync video trend. Like other popular socia...
Musical.ly was founded by Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang, a pair of Chinese entrepreneurs who met at eBaoTech, a digital solutions provider for the global insurance industry. Zhu had graduated from China’s Zhejiang University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and worked in various tech industry jobs in China and the US before joini...
Musical.ly was available on Android and iOS and allowed users to record videos from 15 seconds to one minute long, in one or multiple shots. They could add soundtracks using songs or other background tracks, such as comedic sound effects. From early on, Musical.ly’s emphasis was on lip-syncing, and users could choose from thousands of songs to set ...
As we mentioned earlier, Musical.ly was merged into TikTok about a year after it was acquired by ByteDance. According to a representative of ByteDance, these were the original plans for Musical.ly: “Musical.ly will continue to operate as an independent platform, integrating ByteDance’s global leading [artificial intelligence] technology and leverag...
The main reason why ByteDance decided to shut down Musical.ly and combine it with TikTok was to take advantage of its user base and technology. At the time of the merger, TikTok was very popular in China but struggled to expand into foreign markets. As we discussed above, Musical.ly did the opposite and was very popular in international markets, es...
When Was Musical.ly Made?
The first version of the app was officially launched in August 2014.
When Did Musical.ly End?
Musical.ly was shut down in mid-2018 after being acquired by ByteDance, which is the company that owns TikTok.
What Happened to Musical.ly?
The company was shutdown because the new owners, Bytedance wanted to incorporate its technology and userbase into TikTok.
Musical.ly is not a failed startup — it didn’t shut down because of doing anything wrong. In fact, Musical.ly is a prime example of a company that did everything right. Like many startup founders, Musical.ly’s co-founders had to pivot from their initial idea to finding one that worked, and they seem to have done so at just the right time. In the ca...
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.
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.
Musical.ly was a social media app founded in 2014 by Chinese entrepreneurs Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang [3] [4] [5]. The app was available for both Apple and Android devices, and it topped the app charts until 2018.
Aug 26, 2017 · A list of funny musical.ly videos and clips of the most popular musical.ly users! The Musically videos of musical.ly users going viral.
Aug 2, 2018 · Existing Musical.ly users have been migrated over to their new TikTok accounts, which have been updated with a new interface but still retains the core feature of both apps: short-form videos...
Aug 2, 2018 · Musical.ly started life as an app that let users record themselves lip-syncing along to songs and audio clips. It gained a large following, mostly in the U.S., with...
