Launched in October 2014, Musical.ly is a free iPhone and Android application that allows users to create 15-second-long music videos to a variety of songs. You’ve probably seen a handful of them on ...

The lip-synch app, which has experienced phenomenal growth, signs its first major label partner. By Dan Rys Social video sharing app musical.ly, which allows users to create and upload 15-second ...

“Do it for the Vine” was the unofficial slogan of the now-defunct, once wildly popular short-form video app Vine. You’d hear people shout it from behind their phone cameras as they filmed their ...

Facebook is now allowing users to upload videos with licensed music and has started testing a Musical.ly rival, after clinching music licensing deals with both major and independent labels. Facebook ...

Videos submitted with #MySuperSweetAudition will give people the chance to be considered for a future episode. By Natalie Jarvey MTV is reviving mid-2000s hit My Super Sweet 16 with the help of a ...

Before he was a member of the Sway House — an L.A.-based, fratlike collective of steely jawed TikTokers who make ungodly amounts of money gyrating into their camera phones — Blake Gray was the ...

Musical.ly has begun redirecting users of its Live.ly app, which it decided to kill off last month, to a competing app called LiveMe. Existing Live.ly users are being pointed to LiveMe through an ...

One issue that many tech start-ups must face is how to deal with harmful content, especially when services start amassing a loyal following. Lip-syncing app Music.ly is facing just this challenge.

Bytedance, which purchased Musical.ly for about $800 million in 2017, has merged the music-centric app with another product, TikTok. By Natalie Jarvey RIP Musical.ly. Nearly a year after Chinese ...

Lip-syncing app Musical.ly has been sold to Chinese news firm Bytedance, reportedly for as much as $1 billion. A karaoke-style smartphone app that lets you create your own short music videos, ...