The Open Media Alliance (AOMedia) announced its success in promoting the AV2 video codec, which does not require patents and royalties, provides approximately 30% greater compression efficiency compared to AV1 and supports advanced capabilities for streaming, video on demand (VOD), video conferencing and interactive systems. YouTube plans to start broadcasting in AV2 in early 2027, initially only when viewing via the Web. It is also noted that as of March this year, 90% of the content on YouTube is available in AV1 format. Google is testing experimental builds of Chrome with AV2 support internally, but has not yet pushed the changes to official unstable builds. The appearance of AV2 support in Chrome is expected before the start of broadcasting in this format on YouTube.
Intel is developing the SVT-AV2 (Scalable Video Technology AV2) library with implementations of the AV2 encoder and decoder, accelerated using processor extensions for hardware parallelization of calculations. Meta intends to use AV2 for video distribution on Facebook and Instagram, as was once done with the AV1 codec, and is also interested in open audio codecs OAC (Open Audio Codec) and OAR (Open Audio Renderer).