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Dec 14, 2022 · In June, while at more than 80 million registered members now, Musical.ly announced a licensing deal with Warner Music, allowing content creators to legally use the music in their videos. Another content distribution deal with MTV was signed just weeks later.
Musical.ly was once a famous social media platform that allowed users to create, share, and discover video-based content. However, the app was shut down by its owner, ByteDance. This decision was made in order to merge Musical.ly’s technology and user base into another app.
The short answer is that it was folded into TikTok, which is currently the world’s most popular video-sharing app. But an app doesn’t just go from an idea to getting acquired and merged with TikTok overnight, so let’s take a look at the origins of Musical.ly and see how it reached its eventual end. .
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. The first prototype was released in April 2014, and then after that, the official version was launched in August 2014.
Aug 2, 2018 · Musical.ly Is Going Away: Users to Be Shifted to Bytedance’s TikTok Video App. By Todd Spangler. Courtesy of Bytedance. It’s the end of the road for Musical.ly, the short-form video app that...
Aug 3, 2018 · Musical.ly, a lip-syncing video app aimed at teenagers, is no more. Chinese company Bytedance announced Friday that its music video platform TikTok will absorb Musical.ly’s content and user...
Aug 2, 2018 · Musical.ly, the popular lip-sync video app, announced Wednesday (Aug. 1) that it will be absorbed into sister app TikTok, creating one global video platform. The merger comes after ByteDance, the...
Aug 3, 2018 · Existing musical.ly users will be automatically moved to the new TikTok app. Users will also get to keep all their content and fan base from their musical.ly account to the new one. Prior to the...
Aug 2, 2018 · Musical.ly is shutting down for good. After amassing a sizeable user-base, the lip-sync app (the service had a few others as well) will scuttle users to TikTok, a Vine-like video app owned by ...
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 up...
