**Update**: Following a flood of criticism and the loss of millions of subscribers, YouTube’s Fine Brothers have rescinded trademark claims and cancelled their plans to license videos under the “React World” umbrella. Benny and Rafi Fine apologized and understand’s their communities concerns. They have decided to do th…
YouTube Star Lilly Singh aka Superwoman sits down with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to discuss her upcoming project and crushes Fallon in a fierce game of Fast Family Feud. Singh’s has an honest chat with Fallon that through her depression came her creation, Superwoman. A YouTube channel based on a simple premise o…
YouTube vlogger Casey Neistat swerved through the snowy streets of NYC while riding the board. Neistat’s adventure through the Big Apple, set to a remix of Frank Sinatra’s tune New York, New York, was posted to YouTube on Sunday and now has more than 6M plus views. Neistat’s posted earlier today on YouTube the behind t…
A must read to know who are the YouTubers on the rise in Teen Vogue’s Top 10 YouTubers to Watch in 2016 article, written by Madonna Matta. All of us have spent mindless hours watching numerous videos. We jump from one YouTuber’s channel to the next wondering who will rise above all. Writer Madonna Matta narrows them do…
Despite the name, the list of Shorty Awards nominees is impressively long. The growth of digital platforms has led to a glut of diverse stars who merit nominations for the annual social media awards. While the Shorty Awards celebrate digital presence, the nominations are generally split between the world of mainstream…
The President Obama interview with YouTubers Adande Thorne, Destin Sandlin, and Ingrid Nilsen has been viewed over one million times. All three YouTubers sat down individually with the President at the East Wing of the White House on Friday. The YouTubers had an array of questions ranging from interesting to light-hear…
Amanda De Cadenet plus YouTubers GloZell, Shameless Maya and Chriselle Lim sit down for an exclusive interview with Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that took place earlier this week. Hillary Clinton’s campaign trail leads her to the couch of celebrity Amanda de Cadenet with an exclusive interview for her Lifetim…
Having scored last year with a Super Bowl-themed online ad featuring Terry Bradshaw and social media tie-ins, DiGiorno has this year recruited an active NFL pro — the Green Bay Packers’ Clay Matthews — and added some social star-power. Matthews and social media celebrities Ray William Johnson, Colleen Evans and DeStorm…
Netflix has given an eight-episode series order to Haters Back Off, a half-hour comedy starring top YouTube personality, actress-comedian-singer Colleen Ballinger-Evans. Based on Ballinger-Evans’s most popular character, Miranda Sings, Haters Back Off delves into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings (Ballinger-Evan…
The next logically step for a YouTube Mega-Star Pewdiepie is to launch his own multichannel network, Revelmode in partnership with Maker Studios. Revelmode brings together a collection of online celebrities. Pewdiepie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, said he and the other talents will develop everything from origin…