Alliance for Open Media

Alliance for Open Media
Abbreviation	AOMedia, AOM
Formation	September 1, 2015
Founder	Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix
Type	Industry consortium
Purpose	Development of a royalty-free video format
Headquarters	Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Products	AOMedia Video (AV1); AV1 Image File Format (AVIF);
Members (2021)	53
Parent organization	Joint Development Foundation
Website	aomedia.org

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is a non-profit industry consortium headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts and formed to develop open, royalty-free technology for multimedia delivery. It uses the ideas and principles of open web standard development to create video standards that can serve as alternatives to the hitherto dominant standards of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

Its first project was to develop AV1, a new open video codec and format, as a successor to VP9 and an alternative to HEVC. AV1 uses elements from Daala, Thor, and VP10, three preceding open video codecs.

The governing members of the Alliance for Open Media are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent.

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