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Southern California isn’t exactly the first location that springs to mind when one thinks of a winter wonderland, but that didn’t stop the folks at YouTube Space La from turning their studios into a veritable White Christmas for this holiday season's annual #Tubeathon. Presented by What’s Trending in partnership with Ford and its FiestaMovement, the second annual iteration of #Tubeathon was held this past December 12th, 2013 to a capacity crowd and broadcast live to millions over the internet. The evening, emceed by What’s Trending’s own hostess with the mostess Shira Lazar, parody king Bart Baker, and all-around wunderkind Ethan Newberry, was truly a meeting of online greatness for a worthy cause. Nearly 100 YouTube and traditional media celebrities gathered to raise money for Covenant House, a nationwide charity network dedicated to raising money for homeless children. With a powerful end goal in mind, spirits couldn’t...

Stevie Ryan stops by the What's Trending studio to chat with Shira Lazar and Ethan Newberry about her VH1 series, "Stevie TV," personal inspirations, and best tips for twerking!

Now that season 2 of "Stevie TV" is well under way, Ryan is busy promoting the show, but she admits, "I literally go crazy," during the hiatus between seasons of her shows.

"I'm still winging it," she says of her hilarious impressions. "But this season, I think we have a lot more original characters and just original sketches."

"Some of them I like to see after and some of them I like to be in that moment," she adds. For instance, Justin Bieber is fun to play "because I can hook up with guys, girls, whoever I want pretty much." But if she's impersonating someone like Kim Richards, "everyone's terrified of me and doesn't want to talk to me."

In terms of comedy inspirations,...

Collective Digital Studio, the online content arm of management company The Collective, has partnered with YouTube dynamos Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch on the launch of a new video game-focused YouTube channel, Node Studios. The channel will offer gaming-themed original series from the likes of Wong and Laatsch, who operate the hugely popular FreddieW channel, as well as Toby Turner and Ethan Newberry. Turner draws more than three million subscribers across his YouTube channels and also stars in Cartoon Network's "The Annoying Orange" TV series, based on the hit YouTube character. The...

The Collective Digital Studio recently announced the unveiling of Node Studios, a YouTube channel (that's suprisingly not part of the online video sharing site's $100 million Originals Initiative) dedicated to all things video gaming featuring some of online video's most well-known video gaming enthusiasts, visual effects artists, and content creators. Some of those video gaming enthusiasts, visual effects artists, and content creators who the Collective is hoping will bring online video audiences a new and fresh voice to the video gaming programming vertical include Corridor Digital, Ethan Newberry, Freddie Wong and Toby Turner. Although not all of the Node lineup has yet to be announced, the channel is hitting its stride with four new original series, updated weekly for viewers' pleasure. Those series include: Lan Party: Freddie and Brandon Laatsch from FreddieW and Niko and Sam from Corridor Digital provide viewers with an inside look at the latest and greatest games...

In the year 2025, mankind has created the first computerized human, and he is a bad ass. With hyper-intelligent computers comes the threat of machine self-awareness, however. Dun dun dunnnn! Sync Behind-the-Scenes Videos Sync is directed by Sam Gorski & Niko Pueringer and written by Ira Parker. The web series stars: Tanner Thomason, Jai Koutrae, Carlos Ciurlizza, Cooper Harris, Jude Lanston, Dead Lee, Harley Morenstein, Ethan Newberry, Lauren Plaxco, Kelly Walker, and Krista Marie Yu.