Just this week, Wong Fu released their newest production “To Those Nights,” a short film that tells the stories of three young adults and the emotional clarity they experience during nights of drunkenness. Wong Fu Productions — started in 2003 by Philip Wang, Wesley Chan and Ted Fu — has made a name for itself [...]

Back in February, YouTube beauty guru Michelle Phan uploaded a video titled “3 Beauty Tips With a Spoon”, giving her viewers tips on how they can incorporate spoons in their daily beauty routine. The video has since racked up almost 1.4 million views with overall positive feedback from viewers. Today, television host Conan O’Brien uploaded [...]

For better or for worse, YouTube has forever altered the way we consume media across the globe. From pole to pole, people around the world are watching and interacting with this new form of crowdsourced media. YouTube, in its eight years of life, has given the public complete control of the content they create and [...]

The Young Turks channel reached 1 billion YouTube views last month, and the TYT Network is still just getting started. Earlier this month, it was one of the first networks to launch a subscription fee-based YouTube channel called TYT Plus. Now it’s collaborating with the Center for Investigative Reporter to produce an investigative news series, [...]

They Surf with Patton Oswalt from Patton Oswalt Patton Oswalt is once again hosting the Webby Awards, which will be awarded in New York tomorrow. As part of his promotion of the Webby Awards ceremony and its on-demand premiere Wednesday morning at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m. PT, the comedian stars in a Funny or Die [...]

The first annual YouTube Comedy Week is the video-streaming site’s effort to showcase the best comedic videos that they have to offer. They include parody music videos like “Start a Mumford Band,” the latest episodes of web series commissioned specifically for Comedy Week and live stream events like YouTube Stand-Up Night and CollegeHumor’s All-Nighter. NMR [...]

The first annual YouTube Comedy Week festival kicked off Sunday with “The Big Live Comedy Show,” a star-studded extravaganza featuring Sarah Silverman, The Lonely Island, Seth Rogen, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts, among other acts. YouTube hyped up the event for the past month, even bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote the program. Even though [...]

18-year-old YouTube songwriter Zach Sobiech passed away this morning, a year after he was diagnosed with terminal osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Zach Sobiech first became known to the YouTube world after his original song “Clouds” went viral with over 2.9 million views on YouTube. When he was 14 years old, Zach was diagnosed with [...]

It’s no secret that last night’s YouTube Comedy show did not go as well as people had hoped. Commenters flooded the replay video with feedback on how the show was just “unfunny” and how it had been overhyped. That’s also not to mention that Ed Bassmaster, one of the biggest stars in the YouTube community, [...]

Ed Bassmaster might just be my new favorite person. The YouTube sketch comedian and prank proprietor took his beloved character “Skippy” for a run last night at the live YouTube Comedy Week event held at the Culver Studios. Strangely for a comedy show, the live event’s staff were not into it. During a performance by [...]

In the latest FreddieW video, director Jimmy Wong imagines an austere, dark world where a dog is the president of the United States, and “kitty genocide” has wiped out the entire cat population — except for one. President Wiggles wants the last cat on Earth dead, but Freddie Wong and his gang are putting up [...]

A man in Sao Paulo, Brazil finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him and quarrels openly from the balcony of his high-rise apartment. As the couple argue and throw stuff at each other, the woman’s other lover, clad only in white boxer shorts, tries to escape from the escalating confrontation. See how the cheater [...]

Yahoo announced today that it has officially purchased the social media platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Rumors of Tumblr joining the Yahoo family began circulating last Thursday after an article published by All Things D leaked news of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer meeting with Tumblr CEO David Karp to discuss the companies merging. Yahoo CEO [...]

It’s YouTube network season here on the internet. Early last week, the folks behind Smosh launched game-oriented multi-channel network, Smosh Games Alliance. Now, internet icon Felicia Day has decided to jump into the MCN game with the Geek & Sundry Vlogs channel. Built around Day’s already successful YouTube channel Geek & Sundry, which features a variety [...]

YouTube, you’re 8 years old now, and boy, oh boy have you grown [wipes away tear]. After eight years of cats playing the keyboard, nonstop dancing, countless epic fails, cats getting stuck in boxes, “Gangnam Style,” the “Harlem Shake” and that time you banned Kate Upton because she did the Cat Daddy (goddamn you) — [...]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, FX has given script commitment to YouTube sensation Ray William Johnson on a comedy inspired by his life. As you may remember, Johnson posted on his Facebook page back in January announcing his plans to begin pitching one of his shows to a few cable networks. Looks like he was [...]

This year’s “’Merica!” comes to us in the form of “Majestic as Fuck!”, a phrase aptly used to describe images of breathtaking beauty — or comical fail. It was initially spawned from a Flickr account pic a photographer uploaded of her dog looking out a car window. But now it has spread, chiefly through Reddit, [...]

The dynamic duo behind “The Brothers Riedell,” Chris and Nick Riedell, got their big YouTube break when they won season one of the YOMYOMF Network’s talent competition “Internet Icon.” Frustrated by the creative restraints of their jobs in the entertainment industry — Chris in acting and Nick in editing and camera work — the brothers [...]

Last night, at the the freshly minted Big Frame offices, YouTuber Kain Carter (HotDamnIRock) held a live streaming Q&A session for more than 30 of his fans. Surrounded by a mix of young and old, vloggers and non-vloggers, Carter took any and all questions regardless of their raunchiness, which there was much of. Crammed together [...]

  With music, snark and cute animals, you’d think police pursuit videos were trying to go “mainstream.” For some reason, cop “chase” videos are becoming a more consistent “must watch” antic on YouTube. It’s as if the police are going to monetize these things and build Robocop. This new chase video, filmed, as they all [...]

  Starcount wants you to know about the Social Star Awards in a bad way. Like, in a crazy, bring tons of awesome YouTubers together for a funny video, sort of bad way. But you know what? Because they’ve done just that, we all win. Assembling some of the hottest names in YouTube including Jenna [...]