YouTube awards best 2006 videos

March 28th, 2007 by Wendy McAuliffe

2006 was certainly the year of user-generated video.

In recognition, video-sharing website YouTube has announced the results of its first annual awards. Winners were selected by the YouTube community.

A full list of results is available here on the YouTube site.

Highlights are the US rock band OK Go who scooped the ‘Most Creative’ category for their video featuring the performers on treadmills.

The ‘Free Hugs Campaign’, which was top of the combined Viral Video Chart for a number of weeks, has been awarded ‘Most Inspirational’.

YouTube comments: “2006 was a pioneering year for online video, user-created content and the YouTube community. You let us into your bedrooms, created new forms of entertainment, and radicalized popular culture. Now it’s time to reflect on what a tremendous year it was and recognize the best of the best during the first YouTube Video Awards.”

                              

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