Updated 28 May, 2012, 6:13 pm IST

And The 2007 YouTube Award Goes to...

28 Mar, 2007, 6:00 pm IST | by Priyanka Pradhan |

Google's video sharing site,YouTube, has announced the winners of the 2007 YouTube Video Awards for individuals who were on the forefront of the most creative and popular original content in 2006.

The Award for the 'Most Creative' YouTube video went to Chicago-born band OK Go, whose famous treadmill video also won a Grammy for Best Short-Form Music Video. The clip was filmed in one continuous shot and, when the video shoot ended, the eight rented treadmills went back where they came from. More than 13 million people have watched this video on YouTube.

The YouTube award in the 'Best Comedy' category went to Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, aka Smosh, The shaggy-haired college students accrued nearly 70,000 fans who watch their every move, whether it's spoofy music videos or quirky comedy sketches like their winning video about a man who finds himself on a "stranded island."

The 'Best Commentary' award was bagged by a Canadian vlogger who dubbed his work, the "Worst Video Ever." The Winekone's random, rambling monologue offers a hysterical glimpse of a half-naked man losing his mind and combating whiffs of wet dog. The Winekone lets literally everything that passes through his creative and hilarious mind out on YouTube and the Web.

Australian Juan Mann who set out to brighten strangers' lives in Sydney by offering 'free hugs' bagged the award for the 'Most Inspirational' video along with Fellow Aussies Sick Puppies offer the emotive soundtrack. According to YouTube, the creators have inspired thousands of fans from around the world who want to start "free hugs" campaigns of their own.

The award for the 'Best Series' went to 'Ask a Ninja' creators, L.A. comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine. The "Ask a Ninja" series features a black-clad spastic ninja answering emails from inquiring minds/ninja watchers.

The 'Best Music video' award went to the L.A.-based Terra Naomi, who went from struggling singer-songwriter to star with a major label. The third most subscribed-to musician on YouTube is now signed to Island Records and will be working in London. Terra Naomi began vlogging and broadcasting live acoustic performances from her LA apartment in February 2006.

And finally, the 'Most Adorable Video' award went to Dony Permedi's master's thesis in animation, with music by high school friend Tim Cassell. The film is about a kiwi, a kind of bird that cannot fly, who spends his life nailing trees to a cliff so he can achieve his dream of soaring in the clouds. Kiwi is the number one most watched Film and Animation video on YouTube with more than six million views.

Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing for YouTube said, "2006 was a groundbreaking year for YouTube, user-generated content, and entertaining online videos. With this in mind, we established the YouTube Video awards to recognize the ingenuity and achievements of our community. These individuals put the first stitches in the fabric of the YouTube community. 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."

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