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Movies & TV, formerly known as YouTube Movies, Movies, and Movies & Shows , is an American channel created and automatically generated by YouTube to feature films that can be bought on YouTube's website.
History[]
Background[]
YouTube, which was starting to become mainstream starting in the late-2000s, had many of its users start looking for professionally-made videos, mainly the Hollywood-produced movies and TV shows produced by the Big Three media networks, growing increasingly tired of videos that were produced by amateurs. Before the implementation of movie & TV show rentals, the only way to watch them on YouTube at the time was viewing the said content on an ordinary YouTube channel. These channels illegally acquired movies and distributed them for free, without paying licensing fees to the rightful movie distributors. This issue led to various lawsuits by traditional media companies, most famously including Viacom.[1]
Development[]
YouTube's development of the section dates back to 2009, with separate 'Movies' and 'Shows' tabs.[2][3] At the time, the tabs did not feature new, mainstream content. Instead, they consisted of old content,[4] which is cheaper to license. After the addition of the tabs, numerous rumors sparked throughout the web. These rumors concerned that YouTube was possibly adding a movie rental feature in the future, with a catalog of mainstream Hollywood movies, and shows coming from the 'Big Three' television networks.[5] They later confirmed these rumors when they implemented a movie rental feature in 2010. However, in order to experiment with the feature, it only included independent films as part of a partnership with the Sundance Film Festival for a limited amount of time.[6][7] It would not be until 2011 that YouTube included mainstream movies and shows, with their expansion of the content renting services,[8] thus originating the current system. On June 10, 2015, the current topic channel for movies and TV shows was created.
Trivia[]
- YouTube Movies peaked as the fourth most subscribed channel on YouTube in 2013.
- Its second reign in 2015 made YouTube Movies peak at over 65 million subscribers.
- It gained nearly 35 million subscribers to reach 62 million on November 20, 2015, but lost most of those subscribers the next day.
- It stayed the fourth most subscribed channel on YouTube for around 3 years until on November 10, 2018, they were surpassed by PewDiePie, and eventually T-Series.
- On February 8, 2020, it surpassed PewDiePie becoming the 3rd most subscribed channel, behind Music and T-Series.
- In April/May, 2020, it surpassed Music becoming the most subscribed topic, after Music had held that record for a long time, and becoming the second-most subscribed channel, behind only T-Series.
- In July 2023, MrBeast surpassed it, currently being the third-most subscribed channel overall.
- In 2011, YouTube movies was accused of posting anti-Semitic movie trailers. The claims were later debunked.
- This Channel used to have Videos, but it was Deleted.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: January 17, 2013
- 2 million subscribers: February 11, 2013
- 3 million subscribers: March 3, 2013
- 4 million subscribers: March 23, 2013
- 5 million subscribers: April 12, 2013
- 6 million subscribers: May 4, 2013
- 7 million subscribers: May 31, 2013
- 8 million subscribers: June 22, 2013
- 9 million subscribers: July 16, 2013
- 10 million subscribers: August 8, 2013
- 11 million subscribers: August 30, 2013
- 12 million subscribers: September 22, 2013
- 13 million subscribers: October 13, 2013
- 14 million subscribers: November 6, 2013
- 15 million subscribers: December 3, 2013
- 16 million subscribers: January 1, 2014
- 17 million subscribers: January 28, 2014
- 18 million subscribers: February 26, 2014
- 19-26 million subscribers: November 17, 2015
- 27-44 million subscribers: November 20, 2015
- 45 million subscribers: January 7, 2017
- 46 million subscribers: March 11, 2017
- 47 million subscribers: April 28, 2017
- 48-49 million subscribers: June 1, 2017
- 50 million subscribers: July 6, 2017
- 51 million subscribers: August 12, 2017
- 52 million subscribers: September 17, 2017
- 53 million subscribers: October 23, 2017
- 54 million subscribers: November 26, 2017
- 55 million subscribers: December 27, 2017
- 56 million subscribers: January 21, 2018
- 57 million subscribers: February 17, 2018
- 58 million subscribers: March 15, 2018
- 59 million subscribers: March 30, 2018
- 60 million subscribers: April 28, 2018
- 61 million subscribers: May 22, 2018
- 62 million subscribers: June 15, 2018
- 63 million subscribers: July 8, 2018
- 64 million subscribers: July 25, 2018
- 65 million subscribers: August 12, 2018
- 66 million subscribers: August 29, 2018
- 67 million subscribers: September 15, 2018
- 68 million subscribers: October 4, 2018
- 69 million subscribers: October 22, 2018
- 70 million subscribers: November 10, 2018
- 71 million subscribers: November 27, 2018
- 72 million subscribers: December 13, 2018
- 73 million subscribers: January 4, 2019
- 74 million subscribers: January 22, 2019
- 75 million subscribers: February 7, 2019
- 76 million subscribers: February 23, 2019
- 77 million subscribers: March 11, 2019
- 78 million subscribers: March 29, 2019
- 79 million subscribers: April 13, 2019
- 80 million subscribers: April 27, 2019
- 81 million subscribers: May 11, 2019
- 82 million subscribers: May 26, 2019
- 83 million subscribers: June 11, 2019
- 84 million subscribers: June 28, 2019
- 85 million subscribers: July 18, 2019
- 86 million subscribers: August 3, 2019
- 87 million subscribers: August 20, 2019
- 88 million subscribers: August 31, 2019
- 89 million subscribers: September 11, 2019
- 90 million subscribers: September 23, 2019
- 91 million subscribers: October 4, 2019
- 92 million subscribers: October 15, 2019
- 93 million subscribers: October 27, 2019
- 94 million subscribers: November 9, 2019
- 95 million subscribers: November 22, 2019
- 96 million subscribers: December 1, 2019
- 97 million subscribers: December 11, 2019
- 98 million subscribers: December 21, 2019
- 99 million subscribers: December 31, 2019
- 100 million subscribers: January 10, 2020
- 101 million subscribers: January 20, 2020
- 102 million subscribers: January 29, 2020
- 103 million subscribers: February 7, 2020
- 104 million subscribers: February 17, 2020
- 105 million subscribers: February 28, 2020
- 106 million subscribers: March 13, 2020
- 107 million subscribers: March 25, 2020
- 108 million subscribers: April 5, 2020
- 109 million subscribers: April 15, 2020
- 110 million subscribers: April 26, 2020
- 111 million subscribers: May 7, 2020
- 112 million subscribers: May 20, 2020
- 113 million subscribers: June 1, 2020
- 114 million subscribers: June 13, 2020
- 115 million subscribers: June 24, 2020
- 116 million subscribers: July 5, 2020
- 117 million subscribers: July 15, 2020
- 118 million subscribers: July 25, 2020
- 119 million subscribers: August 3, 2020
- 120 million subscribers: August 12, 2020
- 121 million subscribers: August 20, 2020
- 122 million subscribers: August 30, 2020
- 123 million subscribers: September 8, 2020
- 124 million subscribers: September 17, 2020
- 125 million subscribers: September 27, 2020
- 126 million subscribers: October 13, 2020
- 127 million subscribers: October 31, 2020
- 128 million subscribers: November 20, 2020
- 129 million subscribers: December 14, 2020
- 130 million subscribers: January 6, 2021
- 131 million subscribers: January 23, 2021
- 132 million subscribers: February 13, 2021
- 133 million subscribers: March 6, 2021
- 134 million subscribers: March 27, 2021
- 135 million subscribers: April 16, 2021
- 136 million subscribers: May 7, 2021
- 137 million subscribers: May 29, 2021
- 138 million subscribers: June 21, 2021
- 139 million subscribers: July 14, 2021
- 140 million subscribers: August 7, 2021
- 141 million subscribers: August 31, 2021
- 142 million subscribers: September 25, 2021
- 143 million subscribers: October 22, 2021
- 144 million subscribers: November 19, 2021
- 145 million subscribers: December 14, 2021
- 146 million subscribers: January 3, 2022
- 147 million subscribers: January 23, 2022
- 148 million subscribers: February 14, 2022
- 149 million subscribers: March 9, 2022
- 150 million subscribers: April 3, 2022
- 151 million subscribers: April 28, 2022
- 152 million subscribers: May 23, 2022
- 153 million subscribers: June 19, 2022
- 154 million subscribers: July 15, 2022
- 155 million subscribers: August 7, 2022
- 156 million subscribers: September 3, 2022
- 157 million subscribers: October 1, 2022
- 158 million subscribers: October 30, 2022
- 159 million subscribers: November 24, 2022
- 160 million subscribers: December 18, 2022
- 161 million subscribers: January 7, 2023
- 162 million subscribers: January 28, 2023
- 163 million subscribers: February 22, 2023
- 164 million subscribers: March 19, 2023
- 165 million subscribers: April 12, 2023
- 166 million subscribers: May 5, 2023
- 167 million subscribers: May 24, 2023
- 168 million subscribers: June 10, 2023
- 169 million subscribers: June 26, 2023
- 170 million subscribers: July 10, 2023
- 171 million subscribers: July 26, 2023
- 172 million subscribers: August 10, 2023
- 173 million subscribers: August 24, 2023
- 174 million subscribers: September 8, 2023
- 175 million subscribers: September 23, 2023
- 176 million subscribers: October 27, 2023
- 177 million subscribers: November 28, 2023
- ↑ Peters, Jeremy W. (March 14, 2007). Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube Video Clips. The New York Times. Retrieved on September 22, 2023.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090406023929/http://www.youtube.com/movies
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090421200808/http://www.youtube.com/shows
- ↑ YouTube boosts full-length movies, TV show lineup (Update). Phys.org (April 16, 2009).
- ↑ Buskirk, Eliot Van (September 2, 2009). YouTube Angling to Offer Premium Movie Rentals. Wired. Retrieved on October 22, 2023.
- ↑ YouTube to Sundance: Independent Filmmakers Wanted. YouTube Official Blog (January 20, 2010). Retrieved on October 22, 2023.
- ↑ Buskirk, Eliot Van (January 21, 2009). YouTube Movie Rentals: Today Sundance, Tomorrow the World. Wired. Retrieved on October 22, 2023.
- ↑ Hearst, Camille (May 2, 2011). Get more into movies on YouTube. YouTube Official Blog. Retrieved on October 22, 2023.