Genre                                     
 Year-in-review, Mashup (video),Mashup (music)

director                                   
 s-Peter Furia (2012) Kai Hasson (2011, 2013–present)

The music was composed by The Hood Internet with Major Lazer:

On 18 December 2012, "2012 Rewind YouTube Style 2012" was uploaded to YouTube Spotlight.^[13] It was created and produced by YouTube, and Seedwill.^[3]n 2012, YouTube's Rewind videos changed from a Top 10 list, to featuring several popular YouTubers, the most popular music and videos into, mashup (music), and video's, breaking news and internet memes, from the year. In 2013 the Rewind Button/logo was created.^[12]

On the 11 December 2013, "YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?" was uploaded to YouTube Spotlight.^[4] It was created and produced by YouTube, and Portal A Interactive.^[4] It was the first year that the YouTube Rewind Button was used; otherwise, it was very similar in style to the 2012 video. Jordan Roseman aka DJ Earworm composed. He used, and mashed up, six songs from the year. Jimmy Fallon, and The Roots from The Tonight Show, had a guest appearance as well.^[4]

On 9 December 2014,^[5] "YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014" was uploaded to YouTube Spotlight. It was again created and produced by YouTube, and Portal A Interactive. Over 10 songs were mashed together and composed by DJ Earworm^[5][14] for the video.^[5] It was not structured around songs, as in previous years. More internet memes and trends were used alongside the music. Its main features were the YouTube Rewind Button flag. With YouTuber's and characters running with it, it starts at the beginning of the video all the way to the end. The flag was run through the sets of Colbert Report by Big Bird, Conan by Conan O'Brien; running through his own with Freddy Wong acting as the host, and the set of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, by Kid President. The actual Rewind Button is not shown until the end of the video.^[14]

On 9 December 2015,^[6] "YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015 | #YouTubeRewind" was uploaded to the YouTube Spotlight channel. It was again created and produced by YouTube, and Portal A Interactive. It was the first one to have a hashtag along with it.^[6][10] April 23, 2015 was YouTube's 10th anniversary of hosting videos on the internet.^[15] The video heavily incorporated the past 10 years of YouTube into the video. The music mashup was composed by The Hood Internet. Additionally, Avicii composed an original remix for the video.^[6][10]

The video features more gamers than previous years, such as YouTube personality Markiplier. It was set up to resemble the Five Nights at Freddy's, an indie, survival horror, point-and-click, video game that has gained recognition since its first release in August 2014. The Rewind Button and logo are shown throughout the video. Its main appearance is with Felix Kjellberg and Zoe Sugg about halfway through the video. They are next to a scoreboard with two dates of 9 December 2015. Zoe changes one scoreboard date back to 14 February 2005, leaving the other at 9 December 2015. Afterwards Felix "brofists" the rewind button, triggering the video to show viral videos and memes from 2015 back to 2005. After the credits, the Fine Brothers are shown arguing about whether PewDiePiewas in the video.^[10]