See You at The Yammys
It looks like online videos have rapidly become one of the biggest
examples of the viral nature of the Web. Remember the
Numa clip that Andy Volk
about a while back? Since then I couldn’t tell you the number of
videos I’ve either received from friends or searched for and emailed
myself. Here are some of my other favorites:
Dog and of course JibJab’s
Term Video. I’m a sucker for a short video clip and judging from
the number of comments Andy’s blogs always receive, so are a lot of
other people.
We wanted to reward some of the best, funniest, quirkiest video
clips out there so we created
Yammys – The Yahoo! Video Search Awards. The Yammys recognizes
those fearless souls who give us stuff to search for on
us laughing and emailing our friends.
Contestants can submit a video in 1 of 5 categories: Bloopers,
Pets, Road Trips, Office Humor, and a Catch-All “I Can’t Believe It!”
There’s also a voting phase that starts August 30 so even if you don’t
enter the contest, you can still cast your vote for your
favorites.
out the contest or go to
“The Yammys”. The contest is sponsored by Casio and has
cool prizes. If nothing else, you can get a good laugh out of the
example videos on the site. And of course, if you think you’ve got
the next Numa Numa, you can always
in a clip of your own.
Ryan Rigoli
Yahoo! Search
This will be fun. I can’t wait to see the submissions. I’m not creative enough to do one myself.