Digital media Vine star Nash Grier has left WME to sign with UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The 18-year-old rose to fame on Vine, where he has 12.5 million followers and his micro-videos have been viewed (or “looped”) more than 3.35 billion times. His other current social media tallies include 8.8…

Esquire Network has ordered eight episodes of The Mike Stud Project (working title) docuseries, which follows baseball player-turned-rapper and YouTube star Mike Stud for premiere this summer. Stud is a Duke-educated and former All-American baseball player who turned to music after an injury robbed him of his lifelong…

Roman Atwood and Yousef Saleh Erakat will soon be taking fans away from their computer screens and into the movie theatres. The YouTube stars have recently made for one of the most powerful social media movements yet. At the end of February, the Roman vs. Fousey Tour hit stages in Washington, Oregon and California. Bet…

Singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes who rose to fame from Vine kicked off his headlining world tour on Saturday, March 5th with a sold-out concert at New York City’s legendary Radio City Music Hall. Shawn is touring behind the success of his platinum debut album Handwritten. Shawn surprised fans with sneak peeks of 3 unrele…

In this week’s episode of The Amazing Race, remaining teams flew together from South America to Geneva, Switzerland to continue their fight in colder temperatures. Before leaving the airport, teams were surrounded by fans and encouraged to partake in selfies. Also at this time, Brodie was called out for having a crush…

YouTuber and social media mogul Tyler Oakley drops by Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show to chat about the Oscars, The Amazing Race, pop culture and Face Swap, the latest silly app, on Snapchat. Oakley stopped by The Tonight Show and talked about his encounter with Lady Gaga, his idol, at the Vanity Fair Oscar Red Carpet…

YouTube Pop star Megan Nicole signs onto Netflix’s animated kids’ series Popples, to lend her music and voice. Megan Nicole will make her animated debut as Squeaky Pop in the episode Fallen Pop Idol in season two of Popples and will lend her voice to original song Together With My Friends. The show’s second season will…

The United Nations tapped several of YouTube’s most popular female stars  to be Change Ambassadors with the focus on the global fight for gender equality. The first group of women YouTubers to participant in the United Nations’ Change Ambassadors program include Ingrid Nilsen (who recently interviewed the President) an…

Samsung invites YouTuber celeb Casey Neistat to vlog from the Oscars’ red carpet and beyond using their latest model of Samsung, Gear 360. Casey gets his once-in-a-lifetime news in a Samsung meeting a few days prior to Hollywood’s most beloved ceremony. He, as the faithful vlogger, documented every moment leading to th…

Teams continued the third round of the Race in Cartagena, Colombia where professional athletes, Brodie & Kurt put their skills into full gear to finish in first place. That’s how to do it @kurtegibson and @BrodieSmith21! #AmazingRace pic.twitter.com/g7SFPcdTG9 — The Amazing Race (@AmazingRace_CBS) February 27, 2016 Thi…