Who owns YY Live?
YY Live is owned by Baidu (China, NASDAQ: BIDU), which has owned the brand since 25 February 2025.[1]
Evidence: Baidu, Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Baidu, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Video platforms
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: BIDU HKEX: 9888
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About YY Live
YY Live is a Chinese video-based entertainment live-streaming business made up of the YY mobile app, the YY.com website and PC YY. Baidu agreed to buy it from JOYY in November 2020 for about US$3.6 billion, terminated that agreement when its closing conditions went unmet by the long stop date, then bought the whole of it on 25 February 2025 for roughly US$2.1 billion.
What Baidu's annual report says about YY Live
Sentences about YY Live from Baidu's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited, our wholly-owned subsidiary, entered into a share purchase agreement on November 16, 2020 with JOYY Inc. and certain of its affiliates, which are collectively referred to as JOYY, to acquire JOYY's domestic video-based entertainment live streaming business in China, known as YY Live, for an aggregate price of approximately US$3.6 billion.
After negotiation with JOYY on next steps following the termination, Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited entered into new agreements on February 25, 2025 with JOYY to acquire, and acquired, YY Live for an aggregate price of approximately US$2.1 billion.
We can give no assurance that the acquisition of YY Live will bring the anticipated benefits and opportunities to us.
How often Baidu names YY Live 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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of YY Live
Where YY Live sits in Baidu
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Baidu
Baidu controls 14 brands on Brandtree, 14 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; Baidu has 2.
About the owner: Baidu
Baidu is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China, founded in 2000. Brandtree records 14 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888.
Baidu describes itself as a leading AI company with a strong internet foundation. It was founded as a search engine business in 2000, incorporated in the Cayman Islands that January, and runs three main areas: a Mobile Ecosystem of more than a dozen apps built around Baidu App, an AI Cloud division, and intelligent driving, which includes the Apollo Go robotaxi service. Baidu General Business — the group excluding its separately listed video service iQIYI — contributed over 70 per cent of revenue in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025. Its shares trade on Nasdaq and, since March 2021, on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
🇨🇳 YY Live and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; YY Live is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of YY Live?
The parent company of YY Live is Baidu, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is YY Live Chinese?
Yes. YY Live originated in China and its owner, Baidu, is also headquartered in China.
Since when has Baidu owned YY Live?
Baidu has owned YY Live since 25 February 2025.
Is YY Live still owned by Baidu?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, YY Live is still owned by Baidu. 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] Baidu, Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 March 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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