YouTube organizes the best homemade video awards

This Monday (March 19) online video sharing website YouTube claims to host the first awarding program for the best videos created by users in 2006.

This award is divided into 7 categories: the most creative, the most impressive, the best, funniest series, musician of the year, the sharpest commentary and the most loved video ever.

All nominated videos have been hosted by YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/YTAwards. Accordingly, members of the website will view and vote for their comments on each video from Monday to Friday this week. Videos with the highest number of votes will be announced on March 25 and featured prominently on YouTube. Besides, each award-winning work is also given a souvenir, but this design has not been revealed.

Two co-founders of YouTube: Chad Hurley, 29 and Steven Chen, 27.AP source .

Previously to assess the success of a video uploaded to YouTube, people often rely on the video criteria that are viewed and commented on the most. Mr. Jamie Byrne, the school's product marketing department of the online video sharing website, said: ' We want to pick the most familiar works for users to decide on themselves which deserves more recognition. more '.

It is the abundance and variety of online video forms that inevitably create many different types, leading to the creation of prize accounts.

Mr. Byrne added: ' We went through all the most popular content areas last year. Since then we have reviewed and continuously witnessed new and exciting innovations in the field of online video, many types of content have been created by users '.

Among these nominations, notably Renetto of Paul Robinett and Geriatric 1927 of Peter Oakley, comedy of Barats and Bereta, Smosh, video series Lonelygirl15 and Ask a Ninja. Pop band OK Go proved the most professional among the nominees with the music video cult Here It Goes Again.

According to Mr. Byrne, whether or not the award of a YouTube video will become annual depends very much on the attitude of the user with the first award. He said: ' We want to know how the public will react, but we can see that this event will grow more and more if we continue to grow and will definitely become attractive and monumental. more in the future '.

According to comScore Media Metrix, only in January this year, 133.5 million people worldwide visited YouTube.

Do Duong