YouTube launching UGC video gongs

Posted by Martin Stabe on 19 March 2007 at 12:39
Tags: Awards, Citizen journalism, YouTube, citizenjournalism

YouTube is setting up awards for the best user created videos of 2006.

The Google-owned video sharing site will hand out trohies to the creators of videos in seven catories: most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary and “most adorable video ever”.

A channel of nominated videos picked by YouTube is set to launch today. It will allow usrs to vote on the nominees for all of this week, in time for the winner to be announced on 25 March.

Linking the awards to YouTube’s current legal troubles with Viacom, Reuters’ Eric Auchard quips: “One category missing from the YouTube awards is ‘Best Professionally Produced Copyrighted Video.’”

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