The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and YouTube announced Dec. 17 that the Oscars will be broadcast globally on YouTube between 2029 and 2033. The Academy said its current domestic broadcast partnership with ABC will run through the 100th Oscars in 2028.

YouTube has won the rights to host the Academy Awards starting in 2029. The Google-owned service outbid other offers, including one from the Oscars’ longtime home ABC, which has been hosting the event since 1976. Disney’s deal runs through 2028.

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This big move marks the end of a 50-plus-year partnership between the Academy and ABC, which acquired rights in 1976 retain and will air the Oscars through 2028, ending its run with the historic 100th ceremony. Even more significantly, this sees the Oscars departing traditional TV for the first time since its first broadcast in 1953 on NBC.

If you ever for one second thought watching videos online was not the way of the future, the movie industry has made it official. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka the group behind the Oscars, just signed a new deal that will bring the biggest night in cinema exclusively to YouTube starting in 2029.