Ryan Ng is a filmmaker and one of the pioneers of the popular internet movement, the YouTube New Wave. Ng's autobiographical video essays are a vision for the future of media, in which a ‘new wave’ of story-driven YouTube creators will disrupt the traditional media ecosystem.

In 2023, Ng was awarded an IMI award and a $50,000 prize for his video, “Money Killed YouTube, Here’s How We Fix It” and for the YouTube New Wave movement.