March 19th, 2007
YouTube to Hold Video Awards
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Nominations are closed for 2006, but maybe, now that you will be expecting it next year, you can ramp up your best video efforts for next year’s awards. Today YouTube announced that it is holding the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006.
The awards will be handed out in seven categories: most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary and “most adorable video ever.” The nominees, picked by YouTube, are compiled in a gallery at www.youtube.com/YTAwards. YouTube community members can vote on their favorites beginning Monday and concluding on Friday. Source: CNN
We Say: You’ve only got a week to vote, so if you have a favorite, make sure you go there (unfortunately, I tried and the link doesn’t seem to be working … at least at the time of this writing).
Kimberly says:
Will this “award show” air live? Or just be a video they post on YouTube? I’m definitely curious how they will handle this, especially since I just read that Saturday afternoon is the YouTube “primetime”.
Maybe it’s just a voting system, with the number released at a certain time?
- Kimberly
March 19th, 2007 at 7:31 am
steveking says:
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May 5th, 2008 at 12:20 am