Who owns Likee?
Likee is owned by JOYY (Singapore, NASDAQ: JOYY).[1]
Evidence: JOYY Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28, SEC EDGAR, 28 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- JOYY Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
- Origin
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Video platforms
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: JOYY
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Likee
Likee is a short-form video social platform that JOYY launched in 2017. JOYY describes it as offering all-in-one video creation tools and personalised feeds so that users can create, share and discover short videos, with a strong presence in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Likee sits in JOYY's BIGO segment alongside Bigo Live and the imo messaging app.
What JOYY's annual report says about Likee
Sentences about Likee from JOYY's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Likee empowers its users to easily discover, create and share short videos, with simple, all-in-one powerful video creation tools and personalized feeds.
Likee enables users to easily discover, create and share short videos, empowered by its easy, all-in-one video creation tools, such as filters and special effects, and its AI-backed personalized feed.
How often JOYY names Likee in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Likee
Where Likee sits in JOYY
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by JOYY
JOYY controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in video platforms, and who owns them
The 18 brands in video platforms on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Kuaishou, with 2; JOYY has 2.
About the owner: JOYY
JOYY is a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore, Singapore, founded in 2005. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: JOYY.
JOYY is a Cayman Islands holding company headquartered in Singapore, listed on Nasdaq. It was founded in April 2005 and renamed from YY Inc. to JOYY in 2019. Its core business segment, BIGO, covers the Bigo Live, Likee and imo apps and the BIGO Ads advertising platform; JOYY also runs the Hago app and the Shopline commerce software business. Huya, the game-streaming company JOYY launched in 2014, listed separately on the NYSE in 2018 and is not part of JOYY's current portfolio. imo is left off this list because no document read for this entry states where it originated.
🇸🇬 Likee and other Singaporean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 36 brands that began in Singapore. 10 of them (28%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Likee is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Likee?
The parent company of Likee is JOYY, a publicly listed company headquartered in Singapore.
Is Likee Singaporean?
Yes. Likee originated in Singapore in 2017 and its owner, JOYY, is also headquartered in Singapore.
Is Likee still owned by JOYY?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Likee is still owned by JOYY. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] JOYY Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-28 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 28 April 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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