Oscars will move to YouTube from ABC starting in 2029

Hollywood’s biggest nighttime is moving to YouTube.

Beginning successful 2029, the Oscars volition watercourse unrecorded and escaped worldwide connected the video level nether a caller multiyear statement betwixt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube, a large displacement for an awards amusement agelong synonymous with broadcast tv and a wide awesome of however amusement depletion has changed.

The deal, announced Wednesday, gives YouTube exclusive planetary rights to the Academy Awards starting with the 101st ceremonial successful 2029 and moving done 2033 — ending a five-decade concern with ABC and making the Oscars the astir salient amusement awards amusement to wantonness a large broadcast web successful favour of a digital-first platform. The show, including reddish carpet sum and behind-the-scenes access, volition watercourse unrecorded connected YouTube astir the world, with U.S. viewers besides capable to ticker via YouTube TV.

In a associated statement, Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor said the concern reflects the organization’s planetary focus. “The Academy is an planetary organization, and this concern volition let america to grow entree to the enactment of the Academy to the largest worldwide assemblage possible,” they said, calling YouTube “the aboriginal location of the Oscars and our year-round Academy programming.”

YouTube Chief Executive Neal Mohan described the Oscars arsenic “one of our indispensable taste institutions” and said the concern would assistance present the ceremonial to caller audiences astir the satellite portion “staying existent to the Oscars’ storied legacy.”

The statement besides makes YouTube the exclusive worldwide location for different Academy programming, including the Governors Awards, Oscar nominations announcements and the Student Academy Awards.