Winners of the second annual YouTube Video Awards were announced on Friday. The awards recognize the top user-created videos of 2007 in 12 categories on the popular Web site. It's hilarious and entertaining. All that one needs from an awards night!
There probably wasn't any of the razzmatazz of the Oscar night. No red carpets and no plunging necklines. But their's no mistaking the excitement and the entertainment, for ladies and folks it was the
2nd Annual YouTube Awards! The video awards recognize the top of the heap user created videos on the popular YouTube website. It's popularity can be measured not by the fact that I am writing about it but more by the fact that your are gonna read it. So read it and if you can, hop over to YouTube for a dekko
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Categories were - music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and adorable. Each of the 12 categories had six nominees each. User voted and selected. YouTube spokesman Aaron Ferstman said that the winners were selected on the basis of the total number of views for the videos and the general buzz within the users of YouTUbe.So here's celebrating the amateurs, the irreverents and some downright serious bits of work.
This year’s winners include Tay Zonday, 25, above, for his music video “Chocolate Rain,” which had been viewed 15,768,410 times as of Friday. Another Harry Potter movie, a homemade takeoff using puppets made at home took the top comedy honors. The Potter Puppet Pals in The Mysterious Ticking Noise featured a 'naked, but not anatomically correct ' Professor Dumbledore. The top political honors went to 'Stop the Clash of Civilizations' about prejudices in the Islamic and Western worlds by Avaaz.org. It defeated another hugely popular topical 'I Got a Crush on Obama' video. Just as in any awards though, it might be worth our while to check out some of the cool losers also.
Tay Zonday, one of the winners put it in perspective when he said,
I would say basically (I started) just like millions of other people making videos in their living rooms. That's become so much a part of our lives."
MTV Awards, you aren't so cool no more!
(The embedded video shows 'Laughing Baby' - It took first place in the Adorable category)
