## VP9 Overview

![VP9 logo](https://developers.google.com/static/media/vp9/images/vp9-logo-med.png)

VP9 is a next-generation video compression format developed by the
[WebM Project](https://www.webmproject.org). VP9 supports the full range of web and mobile use cases from
low bitrate compression to high-quality ultra-HD, with additional support for
10/12-bit encoding and HDR.

VP9 can reduce video bit rates by as much as 50% compared with other known
codecs. It is supported for adaptive streaming and is used by [YouTube](https://developers.google.com/media/pdf/Youtube-HTML5-VP9-Case-Study.pdf) as
well as other leading web video providers.

VP9 decoding is supported on over 2 billion end points including Chrome,
Opera, Edge, Firefox and Android devices, as well as millions of smart TVs.

[Continue to Getting Started](https://developers.google.com/media/vp9/get-started)