Obama Will Sit Down With Three YouTube Personalities After The State Of The Union (interviews aimed at "tweens")

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Obama Will Sit Down With Three YouTube Personalities After The State Of The Union
The internet personalities will conduct separate interviews with the president aimed at “tweens,” the social-minded crowd, and mothers.

Evan McMorris-Santoro
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Two days after his State Of The Union address next week, President Obama will turn part of the White House over to a teenage makeup expert, a comedian whose husband is an Army veteran, and a professional nerd.

Three popular YouTube personalities — Bethany Mota, GloZell, and Hank Green — will sit down with Obama on individual sets Google will build at the White House for three separate interviews featuring questions gleaned from social media across the country. The White House has turned to Google to help Obama plug into the internet after his annual policy address since 2010, but this year’s event will be the most elaborate. Past interactions have included Obama sitting down for half-hour interviews with Google staff or in Google+ hangouts with users from across the country.

This year, the YouTube personalities, who account for millions of views on the video hub every month, will host the president for five to 10 minute sessions featuring questions from social media, YouTube questions, and questions from the host. A Google official said the administration is able to see potential questions posted to open social media portals, but has no say in which questions are selected and will not vet the questions asked by the hosts.

The run-up to the 2015 State Of The Union has been unorthodox. Rather than take a whistle-stop tour across the country after the address, Obama has already been on the road for weeks, laying out a policy agenda in what the White House has called “State Of The Union spoilers.” Administration officials told Politico they intend to keep rolling out smaller policy agenda items through the rest of the year.

As they often have in the past, White House aides have turned to new media outlets to push their message in the run up to the State Of The Union. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer has posted to Medium several times. Top White House aide Valerie Jarrett posted to LinkedIn Wednesday. A day earlier, Obama gave an “exclusive” on broadband access to Upworthy.

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YouTube Stars to Interview President Obama After State of the Union
January 15, 2015 | 09:25AM PT
Todd Spangler
NY Digital Editor, Variety

The White House has invited three top YouTube creators — Bethany Mota, GloZell Green and Hank Green — to interview President Obama next week, two days after his State of the Union address.

Obama has participated in video chats on YouTube and via Google+ Hangouts after the State of the Union every year since 2010. This year will be the first time YouTubers will be visiting the White House to talk with the president in person following the address, in a live broadcast on Thursday, Jan. 22 (time is TBD) on the White House YouTube channel.

The PR move is part of Obama’s strategy to reach out to young Americans, through YouTube stars’ millions of followers. In March 2014, the White House gathered YouTube personalities in a summit aimed at promoting signups for the administration’s health-care plan.



Mota (pictured, above) is a fashion and makeup vlogger with 8 million fans on YouTube; she was featured in an ad campaign YouTube ran last spring. Hank Green hosts popular show VlogBrothers, which has 2.3 million subscribers, with his brother John (author of “The Fault in Our Stars”). GloZell — self-described “Queen of YouTube” — presents interviews, comedy riffs on her life and song parodies to her 3.3 million YouTube followers.

The YouTube creators say they’ll ask the president about topics including education, net neutrality, jobs and the economy, and racial profiling, and will solicit questions from their fanbases over the next week.

YouTube also will stream the president’s State of the Union address live on on Jan. 20 at 9 p.m. ET, as well as the Republican response by House Speaker John Boehner.

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What do you expect of the guy who couldn't be bothered to stand with other world leaders in Paris against terrorism because he had an NBA team coming to visit the White House the next day?

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This is Who Will Be Interviewing Obama After His SOTU Address

01.16.2015 | Matt Fox | 3 

 
Daily Surge
 
Well, the YouTube presidency has finally come full circle. The most presidential president in history has decided to take a rather unique approach to this year’s State of the Union address, as he has agreed to be interviewed by several so-called YouTube “celebrities,” including this lovely lady.

 
Her stage-name — or maybe her real name, who knows — is GloZell Green. And along with two other YouTubers, she will sit down with the Leader of the Free World to discuss…well, Lord knows what.

Among GloZell’s claims to fame is a YouTube classic, entitled “My Push-Up Bra Will Help Me Get My Man.”

Here’s a quick video highlighting all three of the amazing Americans who will speak with the Commander-in-Chief after his big address:



We’re living in rather interesting times, are we not?

Head over to Grabien to see more of GloZell’s fascinating clips, as well as some highlights from the others who have been granted the privilege of sitting down with the President of the United States of America.

Glad to see Obama is taking his final two years seriously.

Read more at http://dailysurge.com/2015/01/will-interviewing-obama-sotu-address/