AOMedia stands for Alliance for Open Media.

The alliance was formed in 2015 with a goal to bring high quality video codec with a large ecosystem and market acceptance.

Members of the alliance include Google, Microsoft and Mozilla (all browser vendors) among others. The alliance started with 7 vendors and now includes over 20.

The video codec being specified by AOMedia is known as AV1.

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