Editing Lip sync (section)

===For entertainment and effect===
Lip syncing where the audience knows the performer is pretending has also been popular as a form of musical pantomime, in which performers mime to pre-recorded music for the public's entertainment.<ref name="Zak">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110802060.html|newspaper=Washington Post|title=Office Drones, Lip-Sync Your Heart Out|date=2007-11-11|first=Dan|last=Zak|location=Washington, DC|access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/173714|title=Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger|website=Vimeo|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> It is often performed by [[Drag (clothing)|drag]] performers ([[drag queen]]s and [[drag king]]s).<ref name="pinknews-rupaul">{{cite web |date=2016-03-24 |title=RuPaul: Lip Sync Battle is 'ripping off' gay culture for straight people |url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/03/24/rupaul-lip-sync-battle-is-ripping-off-gay-culture-for-straight-people/ |access-date=2 January 2017 |website=Pink News}}</ref> [[Iron Maiden]] and [[Muse (band)|Muse]] both mocked demands by two music television programs to give mimed performances, by having their band members deliberately swap instruments.<ref name="nme-miming">{{cite web|title=6 Bands Making A Mockery Of Miming|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/6-bands-making-a-mockery-of-miming-20962|website=NME|date=5 February 2014|access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Muse singer Matt Bellamy swaps places with drummer on Italian TV|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6217470/Muse-singer-Matt-Bellamy-swaps-places-with-drummer-on-Italian-TV.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/6217470/Muse-singer-Matt-Bellamy-swaps-places-with-drummer-on-Italian-TV.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=Telegraph|date=22 September 2009 |access-date=2 January 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Examples of lip sync performances (sometimes referred to as a [[lip dub]] video) have also been popular as [[viral video]]s on the internet.<ref name="Zak" /><ref name="cbc-seniorssyncing">{{cite web|title=Dear Future Husband lip sync video features Calgary seniors, Nenshi|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/whitehorn-village-meghan-trainor-future-husband-nenshi-1.3629723|website=CBC News|access-date=2 January 2017}}</ref> An early example,  "[[Numa Numa (video)|Numa Numa]]", a video recorded by Gary Brolsma of him dancing and lip syncing to the song "[[Dragostea din Tei]]", was ranked in 2007 by [[The Viral Factory]] as the second most-viewed viral video of all time behind the [[Star Wars Kid|''Star Wars'' Kid]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Star Wars Kid is top viral video|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6187554.stm|work=BBC News|date=2006-11-27|access-date=2007-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=It's been twelve years since Numa Numa and viral videos suck now|url=https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/12/07/numa-numa/|website=The Next Web|access-date=2 January 2017|date=2016-12-07}}</ref>

Various television competition programs have been built around lip sync performances, such as ''[[Puttin' on the Hits]]'', and ''[[Lip Service (game show)|Lip Service]]''. Comedian [[Jimmy Fallon]] incorporated similar performances with celebrities as sketches during his [[late night talk show]] ''[[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon]]''; he oversaw a standalone television series for [[Spike (TV channel)|Spike]], ''[[Lip Sync Battle]]'', which extended the concept into a competitive format between pairs of celebrities.<ref name="success">{{cite web|url=https://www.thewrap.com/how-jimmy-fallons-lip-sync-battle-launched-spiketvs-rebrand-right-swing-at-right-moment/|title=How Jimmy Fallon's 'Lip Sync Battle' Launched SpikeTV's Rebrand: 'Right Swing at Right Moment'|last=Ross|first=L.A.|website=[[The Wrap]]|access-date=May 11, 2015|date=April 16, 2015}}</ref> Owing to their prominence as part of drag culture, the reality competition franchise ''[[RuPaul's Drag Race]]'' uses lip sync performances as a recurring challenge, particularly to eliminate contestants.<ref name="pinknews-rupaul" /><ref name="into">{{cite news |last=O'Keefe |first=Kevin |date=October 10, 2018 |title=A Definitive Ranking of Every 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Lip Sync for Your Life |website=INTO |publisher=[[Grindr]] |url=https://www.intomore.com/culture/a-definitive-ranking-of-every-rupauls-drag-race-lip-sync-for-your-life |url-status=live |access-date=August 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820064731/https://www.intomore.com/culture/a-definitive-ranking-of-every-rupauls-drag-race-lip-sync-for-your-life |archive-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref>

[[Mobile app]]s such as [[Dubsmash]] and [[TikTok]] (which acquired and shut down [[Musical.ly]] in 2017), which allow users to record their own lip sync videos to pre-existing audio and song clips for sharing on [[social networking service]]s or an internal platform, have also been popular.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/musically-lively-bigger-than-periscope-1201875105/|title= Musical.ly's Live.ly Is Now Bigger Than Twitter's Periscope on iOS (Study)|first= Todd|last= Spangler|date= September 30, 2016|access-date= October 2, 2016|work= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref><ref name="nyt-dubsmash">{{cite news|title=With Dubsmash, Lip Syncing Like the Stars|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/technology/personaltech/with-dubsmashlip-syncing-likethe-stars.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2 January 2017|date = 2016-04-27|last1 = Eaton|first1 = Kit}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/02/tiktok-surpassed-facebook-instagram-snapchat-youtube-in-downloads-last-month/|title=TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last month|website=TechCrunch|date=2 November 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=10 December 2018}}</ref>

In 2015, [[Maine Mendoza]] — a Filipino content creator who had been nicknamed the "Queen of Dubsmash" — became a cast member of the Filipino variety show ''[[Eat Bulaga!]]'' She appeared in a recurring sketch as a character named [[Yaya Dub]], whose dialogue consisted exclusively of lip synced audio. Her spontaneous reactions to fellow cast member [[Alden Richards]] during a remote broadcast resulted in the creation of an on-air couple known as [[AlDub]], in which the two were portrayed as a couple who never physically meet, and communicated solely via lip syncing. The couple became a major cultural phenomenon in the country, and appeared on-stage for the first time in an October 2015 concert special, ''[[Tamang Panahon]]''. A [[hashtag]] associated with the special received 41 million posts within 24 hours on [[Twitter]], beating a global record previously set during [[Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)|Brazil and Germany's semi-final match]] at the [[2014 FIFA World Cup]].<ref name="The Philippine Star 2">
{{cite web |url=http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2015/07/24/1480207/maine-mendoza-.k..-bukbukova-.k..-yaya-dub |title=Maine Mendoza a.k.a. Bukbukova, a.k.a. Yaya Dub |first=Ricky |last=Lo |work=The Philippine Star |date=July 24, 2015 |access-date=August 17, 2015}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34645078|title='AlDub': A social media phenomenon about love and lip-synching|last=Chen|first=Heather|date=October 28, 2015|newspaper=[[BBC]]|location=United Kingdom|access-date=December 15, 2015}}</ref>