“We used to follow the news on social media and now social media is driving the news,” says social activist influencer, Elizabeth Plank on ABC’s Nightline segment, Young Activists Turn Hashtags into Rallying Cries. Activist videos gone viral have spark controversial conversations; transform countries politics to organi…

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…

YouTube pranksters Roman Atwood and Yousef Saleh Erakat aka FouseyTUBE announce tour dates. The duo will be kicking off a world tour starting in Seattle at the Neptune Theatre on Feb. 23. The show will feature their sketches, stand-up and pranks, as well as meet-and-greet opportunities with the YouTubers. The first set…