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 [...]
Netflix is bringing Ricky Gervais’ latest sitcom, “Derek,” to subscribers worldwide this Fall. The video-streaming site will release all seven 30-minute episodes of the British sitcom’s first season, written and starring Gervais, on September 12. “Derek” is a “bittersweet comedy-drama” that features Gervais as a man working at a retirement home who spends his days [...]
It’s always fun when two tech giants slug it out, and Google and Microsoft are putting on quite a show. Google sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter recently that demanded the software company remove their YouTube application from the Windows Phones Store. The app in question is currently stripped of all ads and allows [...]
Reddit has not only been a source for the latest news, but is also a virtual community bulletin board. In the aftermath of the powerful tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, Monday that killed 24 people, residents in the area have created a subreddit dedicated to finding their missing pets. So far, 70 posts have been [...]
You gotta hand it to Jack Vale on two counts: 1. he totally knows how to get people’s attention and 2. he married extremely well. Pulling his foxy wife, Sherry, into his shenanigans, Vale dresses up as a 90-year-old, complete with a realistic old man face mask and makes out with his special lady down [...]
The bizarre spectre of death has been lurking on Facebook lately as two gruesome videos have been haunting the inboxes and feeds of many user streams. And until recently, Facebook was indifferent to the carnage. The videos, both purported to be out of Mexico, show, in one, a woman, allegedly a cheater, having her head [...]
YouTube Comedy Week — a week-long event showcasing some of the best and brightest in web comedy — has kicked into overdrive with a plethora of daily uploaded comedy videos. There’s a ton of comedy to soak in here, so YouTube has taken it upon themselves to curate some of the best in a “Daily [...]
A powerful tornado devastated the Oklahoma town of Moore Monday, killing 24 people and injuring dozens of others. In just a short amount of time, hundreds of videos showing the destructive tornado have surfaced on YouTube, bringing the news at lightning speed. Before YouTube, viewers could only see what was happening through television news footage [...]
Better grab some tissues, because this video will practically pull your heartstrings clear out of your chest. On Monday, the city of Moore, Oklahoma, was hit by a massive tornado that took the lives of 24 people, including 9 children. Every neighborhood in the suburban town was destroyed, and as many residents have described it, [...]
Straight from the banks of internet weirdness, I present you with the cat beard meme. The feline-infused meme arrived last year, according to Metro, on the Tumblr site Catasters, which clumsy portmanteau aside, seems to be dedicated to posting pictures of cats flipping the fuck out. The meme picked up additional popularity this week after [...]
A Singapore Institute of Management employee secretly filmed his supervisor assaulting an intern and posted the video on YouTube, which has since gone viral. In the 17-second clip above, a bespectacled man punches the intern in the head as he is sitting in his desk, but the intern remains seated. A co-worker intervenes and tries [...]
Premium television-style content is coming to Microsoft’s next generation console, Xbox One. Announced earlier today, director Steven Spielberg in conjunction with 343 Studios will release an Xbox One exclusive “Halo” series. The news of the “Halo” exclusive series hints at the possibility of more streaming exclusive shows coming from Microsoft. This could be harbinger of [...]
Good news, all you Toby Turner haters — you might just have the chance to force the YouTube wunderkind to jump in some lava or be eaten by zombies. Fortunately for the fans of Toby, the effect is not permanent. Toby Turner, the popular star of several YouTube channels with over 4 million subscribers to [...]
Earlier this year, YouTube announced the Next Vlogger 2013 competition, which asked vloggers with “personal stories of triumph” to submit videos for a chance to win $4,000 in video equipment and exclusive training from industry experts. Submissions ended back in April, and YouTube officially announced the winners today. Because they shared their stories of triumph [...]
YouTube’s Creator Academy is offering content creators tips on how to attract more subscribers to their channels through its two-week online “Maximize Your Channel” course from June 3 to June 16. The free program, which is open to all content creators with 10 or more videos uploaded, will discuss the new One Channel layout and [...]
For the past week, Microsoft has been teasing a live event with the tagline “Xbox: A New Generation Revealed.” It’s one of the biggest tech and gaming events of 2013, and it’s streaming live right now. It’s safe to say that Microsoft will be revealing the next generation of Xbox consoles, which we can all [...]
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 could incorporate spoons into 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 [...]