YouTube announces its best with first ever awards

YouTube is taking over the world!  Not only can anyone go there and express their thoughts, but they can now win awards for it!

According to their site, "After five days of fervent ranking, the YouTube community selected these seven videos as the champions."

The winners are:

Most Creative - OK Go: This is the freaky treadmill video that also won a Grammy for "Best Short-Form Music Video” and has been viewed by 13 million people.

Most Inspirational - Free Hugs: A heart-warming video showing a man getting hugs from people.

Best Series – Ask a Ninja: Created by L.A. comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, a series of ninja answering questions (its as strange as it sounds).

Best Comedy – Smosh: The creators Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, aka Smosh, run the number two most-subscribed channel on YouTube.

Best Music – Terranaomi: Terra Naomi, a YouTube success story now with a major record label, began vlogging and broadcasting live acoustic performances from her LA apartment in February 2006.

Best Commentary – The Winekone: A half-naked man rants.

Most Adorable Video – Kiwi!: This film, Dony Permedi's master's thesis in animation with music Tim Cassell, is about the aspirations of a kiwi bird.

Get to work people!  If you plan to win in 2007, you've gotta get your video up and hope it catches on like these do!

Congrats to the winners!!