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Olivia Rodrigo and Jake Paul rose to fame through the Disney show Bizaardvark. The series focused on young content creators but struggled to resonate with viewers. Despite launching two megastars, Bizaardvark remains relatively obscure in pop culture.

Olivia Rodrigo and Jake Paul are two of the biggest names in media today, though they couldn't be more different. One is an actress and music superstar, while the other is an ever-controversial YouTuber turned pro boxer. We'll let you guess which is which. While they're polar opposites today, both Rodrigo and Paul initially rose to mainstream fame as part of Disney Channel's sitcom Bizaardvark in the mid-2010s.

Rodrigo and Paul played "Vuugle" stars, a parody of Google and YouTube, and hung out in the Vuugle Studios with other online stars. The show was your fairly by-the-numbers Disney kidcom, and it doesn't seem to particularly stand out in viewers' minds today.

A3 Artists Agency -- the talent firm formerly known as Abrams Artists -- has added famed Pomeranian Jiffpom to its roster.

The adorable ten-year-old pup counts roughly 30 million fans across all of his social media channels, including 21 million followers on TikTok and 10.1 million fans on Instagram, where, according to the BBC, he rakes in upwards of $40,000 per sponsored post. Jiffpom also counts 1.4 million Facebook followers and 274,000 YouTube subscribers.

Throughout his career, Jiffpom has landed a number of high-profile gigs and accolades, including a guest spot in Katy Perry’s "Dark Horse" music video, a Covergirl commercial, and wins in the animal categories at the Kid’s Choice Awards and Shorty Awards. He also holds a number of Guinness World Records, per A3, including being the fastest dog to walk 10m on his hind legs, the fastest to walk 5m on his front paws, and the most Instagram followers for an animal.

John Oliver opened his seventh season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight by taking aim at the media hyping a potential rift between William Barr and Donald Trump, after the attorney general complained last week about the president’s tweeting about Justice Department matters. Oliver even gave credit to Fox News host Laura Ingraham for telling her viewers that the media saw a Barr-Trump rift as a “sexy” story but “missed the fact that Barr was basically telling Trump, ‘Don’t worry, I got this.'” “To borrow a phrase used almost exclusively by white supremacists, Laura Ingraham was right,” Oliver said. The opening segment of Oliver’s show was on the aftermath of Trump’s impeachment acquittal, as he singled out Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for saying that the president had “learned from this case.” “Of course he hasn’t learned his lesson. Trump never learns his lesson. This...

It's time for cuteness overload! The People's Choice Awards are celebrating the animals who the internet just couldn't get enough of this year. Eight social media famous pets are up for The Animal Star of 2019 and we are asking you to pick your favorite furry friend from your Instagram feed. We never said the decision was going to be easy but the choice is all yours. Do you love all of Doug The Pug's fun pop culture references and celebrity snapshots? Or do you prefer the oh so sweet Nala Cat? Or how about Jiffpom's outfits for every occasion? But, it's not only cats and dogs who are up for The Animal Star of 2019. Juniper The Fox scored her own nomination for her sassy and playful...

Famous social media star, Jiffpom the Pomeranian, has signed with Made In Network to grow the canine’s YouTube presence.

Currently, Jiffpom’s Instagram—where the tiny dog is famous for dressing up in adorable outfits and posing with human social media celebrities—has around 8.9 million followers. His YouTube channel, meanwhile, has just over 255,000 subscribers and has been largely inactive for the past year. Made In Network will be focusing its efforts on the dog’s YouTube channel relaunch.

Those efforts will include two new, regular series—Jiffpom Unboxing and Jiffpom Quiz Show. JiffPom Unboxing debuted its first episode today, after which new episodes will come out regularly on Thursdays. In the series, Jiffpom “sends” items that the young hosts, Abigail James and Carson, unbox. The first episode sees them unboxing giant containers of candy like Nerds and Gummy Bears. You can watch the roughly 10-minute video below:

Jiffpom Quiz Show episodes will debut bi-weekly,...

Facebook’s Instagram is letting third parties tap into the social network’s 800 million-plus user base in new ways — including letting Spotify and other apps share directly into Instagram Stories and opening up augmented-reality camera effects to partners.

Instagram also outlined plans for group-based video chats and said it will soon roll out a redesigned version of the app’s Explore section to group posts thematically. The new features are among the passel of announcements coming out of Facebook’s F8 developers conference, which runs May 1-2 in San Jose.

For the first time, Instagram will let apps post content directly into Instagram Stories (a feature that also will be coming to Facebook Stories).

Initial partners include Spotify — so you can share a sticker of songs, playlists or albums to an Instagram Story — and GoPro, to share recent action shots from the GoPro camera app. The Spotify integration will be...