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The first annual SVS YouTube awards!
In what may be the first YouTube story on the last year and a half not to contain the words "lawsuit" or "copyright," the video sharing mega-site announced the winners of its first ever video awards contest. The contest included such sappy categories as "most inspirational" and "most adorable."
While we're not exactly the most dedicated followers of the cult of YouTube, going through the various winners got us recalling some of the better YouTube videos we've encountered throughout the year while covering various stories for Silicon Valley Sleuth. As such, we've decided to present our own picks for the YouTube video awards...
Most creative: "Super News! –Gates vs. Jobs"
YouTube didn't have a "best video" category, so we'll stick with the "most creative" label for this one. It starts off as another Mac/PC ad spoof, and turns into so very, very much more. This five-minute gem combines all of our favorite topics: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Apple product hype, Vista-bashing, and a singing Finder. Plus, it coined the epic phrase: "PCs are for fart-huffers and Macs get you laid."
Best Series: Will It Blend?
You can keep your ninjas and your lonelygirls. Nothing whittles away productivity like watching iPods and hockey pucks get reduced to smoking mounds of dust.
Best music video: Basketball accident / "I believe I can fly"
I believe I can fly. I believe I can dangle from a basketball hoop by my tibia...< If ever a cheesy movie soundtrack song and a video of backyard antics gone horribly wrong were meant for each other. This video was a consistent favorite, if only because we've all done something equally stupid and/or painful at some point.
Best commentary: "Turkey vs. Greece"
When most kids get caught making nasty comments on YouTube, their parents take away computer privileges for a week or two. This series of video replies and comment flame-wars brings home the "best commentary" award solely for the fact that it managed get an entire country grounded from YouTube.
Most inspirational: Diet Coke and Mentos
Inspirational? Maybe not in the "I'm going to change the world by hugging one thousand kittens" sense, but this phenomena has without a doubt inspired the purchase of more bottles of diet coke, rolls of mentos, and boxes of ultra-strength laundry detergent than any other viral video to date. Plus it's way better than those creepy old "freshmaker" ads.
March 27, 2007 at 01:25 AM | Permalink
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