Webcastr 2007 Video of the Year
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Website highlights best of professional clips on the web.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8
(Reuters) — Webcastr.com, a video website featuring professional video content from over 200 channel providers, today announced the winners of it’s Videos of the Year awards. Webcastr’s viewers, along with it’s editors voted amongst over 2,500 professionally produced videos on the website to pick the best video clips of the year for 2007.Thirty finalists were chosen by the staff of the webbery with the final clips being voted on during the last two weeks of December.The winners are:
- Heidi Loves Her Bazooms — (Victoria Secret promo spot featuring supermodel Heidi Klum)
- D*ck In A Box (The popular SNL skit featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samburg)
- Led Zeppelin Reunion Concert in the UK
- Acting for the Greenscreen (a comedy sketch from Body of Art)
- Bob Dylan Cadillac Commercial
- Britney Spears VMA Parody (featuring Chris Crocker from National Lampoon.com)
- Don’t Taze Me, Bro (from the John Kerry speech at Univ. of Florida)
- Snoop Dogg in the UK (where the US rapper was hassled by Heathrow authorities)
- The Chemical Bros. “Salmon Dance” (computer animated music video)
- Bush vs. Miss North Carolina (a comedy mashup)
Honorable Mention: SUV Driving Through a Shopping Mall (video surveillance tape)
Unlike the majority of video sharing sites, Webcastr features clips that come from licensed sources of professional and semi-pro content. “With so much of the user generated content out there being of questionable quality, we are happy to present these awards in recognition of the efforts of pro content creators who increasingly understand the value of the short form online video medium,” said Webcastr CEO, Tim Devine.
