Last Thursday, April 12th, on the official YouTube blog for creators, YouTube announced an updated eligibility modification for their partnership program. In the simplest terms, the update will now allow any user who monetizes at least one video to become an official YouTube partner. As a YouTube partner, users will be allowed to more easily [...]

I’ve been sending out Tweets lately regarding what my next article should be about, and it seems the trending question is “How do I ask big YouTubers to collaborate?” Obviously, the main reason you’d want to do that is to use their larger audience to get more exposure for yourself. However, how do you convince [...]

“What the f**k is up Coachella!” That was how the man, the legend, the idol—Tupac Shakur’s holographic image greeted fans at Coachella last weekend (and will likely appear again this weekend as well). Now that a “resurrected” Tupac is one of the most talked about performances, people like me are also wondering which other deceased [...]

Bad news Tumblr fiends of the world, during Ad Age’s Digital Conference in New York, Tumblr C.E.O, David Kamp announced that the blogging site will be featuring ads as early as May 2. In 2010 Kamp spoke with the LA Times about advertising on Tumblr saying, “It really turns our stomachs.” It turns out that [...]

A new documentary that features some of new media’s biggest names will hold its world premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 16th. YouTube and internet favorites that lend commentary to the film include AJ Rafael, David Choi, Freddie Wong, Daniel “Cloud” Campos, Ryan Higa, ClaraC, Ross Ching, and Timothy “Traphik” DeLaGhetto, [...]

Drop whatever you are doing at this very moment, sit down and hold onto your hats, because I am about to explode them right off your heads. Rapper Niki Minaj, who is responsible for such tweets as, “No barbz…like seriously…it felt sooooooooo good!!!!!” has deleted her Twitter account as of April 16th. Please take a [...]