On December 20, 2011, YouTube Rewind 2011 was uploaded.

It was uploaded on two channels: YouTube Trends on the first day, and YouTube Spotlight on the second. On December 13, 2010, the first YouTube Rewind was uploaded, titled 2010 YouTube Rewind: Year in Review and featured the top ten most popular videos of the year on YouTube. From 2011 onwards, the Rewind videos have only been uploaded to the YouTube Spotlight channel, now known as just YouTube, with additional behind-the-scenes content. In 2010, YouTube began creating and producing Rewind videos with the help of Seedwell and Portal A Interactive. The first Rewind was created by YouTube in 2010 and featured a list of the 50 most popular YouTube videos of that year. YouTube forwent producing a Rewind installment for 2020, and announced the following year that the series would be discontinued.

The next installment, YouTube Rewind 2019: For the Record, also had a poor reception from viewers. The 2018 installment of the series, YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind, was panned by critics, YouTubers and viewers alike, garnering over 10 million dislikes in its first two weeks, and becoming the most disliked video of all time on YouTube. The series' annual installments were uploaded onto YouTube's official channel. The videos were an overview and a recap of each year's viral videos, events, trends, and music.

YouTube Rewind (stylized as YouTube ЯEWIND) is a discontinued annual video series that was produced and created by the American video platform YouTube and Portal A Interactive from 2010 to 2019.

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