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The ceremony will now be broadcast exclusively on YouTube. Contract has already been signed but the change will only come into force in 2029.
The ceremony of Oscars, the North American film awards, will be broadcast on the digital platform YouTube from 2029, revealed the United States Film Academy.
In a statement, that film academy revealed that it had signed a exclusive contract broadcast of the Oscars ceremony from 2029 to 2033expanding an estimated audience of “more than 2 billion viewers all over the world.”
With this agreement, that institution puts an end to a relationship with the television channel ABC, which will show the ceremony until 2028, the year in which the 100th edition of the Oscars takes place.
According to the academy, the YouTube platform will help increase global audience of the Oscars, as it includes features such as subtitles and audio tracks in multiple languages.
In addition to broadcasting the ceremony, the agreement will include dozens of contents associated with the awards, such as announcing the nominees, interviews with directors, educational programs and podcasts.
Traditionally, the Oscars are the second most watched program in the United States, after the American football championship final (Super Bowl), but the ceremony has been losing spectators.
In 2022, the organization announced changes to the attribution of awards, as a way of speeding up the ceremony and improving audiences, reducing, for example, the duration for awarding awards in more technical categories.
According to the magazine, this year, the Oscars ceremony added 18.1 million of viewers, a far cry from the 55 million viewers in 1998, the year in which the film “Titanic” triumphed in Hollywood.
The 98th edition of the Oscars is scheduled for March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles, California, with the nominees announced on January 22.
