With First YouTube Awards, A New Type of Star Is Born
"Ask a Ninja" was one of seven favorites among YouTube video viewers.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
The series "Ask a Ninja" and OK Go's treadmill-choreographed music clip are among seven winners in the first YouTube Video Awards, the video-sharing site announced yesterday after a one-week fan voting period.
"These individuals put the first stitches in the fabric of the YouTube community," said Jamie Byrne, the site's head of product marketing. "Instead of seeing a way to share videos, they saw an opportunity for worldwide visibility and through their success have changed the landscape of how a 'star' is defined."
The power-pop band OK Go, perhaps the most professional of the mostly amateur nominees, won Most Creative Video for its "Here It Goes Again" clip. "Ask a Ninja," the popular comedy created by Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, won for Best Series.
"Ask a Ninja" triumphed over perhaps YouTube's biggest celebrity: Lonelygirl15. That bedroom production finished fourth, behind "Ask a Gay Man" and "Chad Vader."
Terra Naomi won for Best Music Video for her song "Say It's Possible," a one-shot clip of her playing acoustic guitar and singing. Naomi has parlayed her online success into a record deal with Island Records, which plans to release her debut album this summer.
For Best Commentary, a vlogger known as "The Winekone" won over Peter Oakley ("Geriatric1927") and Paul Robinett ("Renetto"). And Juan Mann's video calling for a "Free Hugs Campaign" won for Most Inspirational.
Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, also known as Smosh, won for Best Comedy Video, and Dony Permedi's animated video "Kiwi!" -- which began as a master's thesis on animation -- won Most Adorable Video.
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