This year, YouTube is trying something new: a 24-hour, gamified three-part interactive livestream called "Escape2021." Like YouTube Rewind, the ill-fated annual video event that preceded it, ...

YouTube Rewind, the company’s annual end-of-year tribute to creators, trends, and moments that defined the platform, will not happen this year. “We know that so much of the good that did happen in ...

YouTube has quietly removed public access to its iconic Rewind videos, leaving users unable to watch the platform’s once-flagship year-in-review content. As of January 8, 2026, all official YouTube ...

It seems that Youtube Rewind 2018 was a failure as soon as it was uploaded. The video, with over 6.8 million dislikes, became the second most disliked video in the history of YouTube within the course ...

Last Thursday, YouTube released its annual "Rewind" video, which featured more than 100 YouTube stars and celebrities. But in the course of just one week, "YouTube Rewind 2018" has become the most ...

YouTube Rewind is no more. After canceling last year’s Rewind because nobody wanted to look back at 2020, the company has decided to cancel rewind for good (perhaps because 2020 never really ended, ...

After 10 years, YouTube is nixing YouTube Rewind, its annual video-recap celebration of creators — saying that one single video can’t reflect “the full breadth” of its creator community. The ...

To say that this year’s YouTube Rewind didn’t go over well with the YouTube community would be quite an understatement. This year’s Rewind, an annual video made by YouTube that’s supposed to encompass ...

As of Thursday (Dec. 13) morning, YouTube Rewind 2018 had notched 9.9 million dislikes after debuting Dec. 6. That pushed it above the previous record holder: Justin Bieber’s 2010 “Baby,” currently ...

Hating on the YouTube Rewind video is an annual Internet tradition, mainly because the video can come off as more for advertisers and corporate board members than for the YouTube community. That very ...

YouTube’s official look back at 2018 is now the most disliked YouTube video of all time. And all it took was one week to hit that milestone. YouTube Rewind 2018 officially premiered on the site on ...