After all the excitement of the Yahoo! Video Awards, I was wondering what to write about. As luck would have it, our new JibJab network launched and our Product Manager Byron put together this JibJab Sendable. That’s him, in the Michael Flatly role. Rounding out the cast are Yoko, Bethany, AnneMarie, and Kaliel, all of whom help keep Yahoo! Video running when they’re not dancing a jig.
Speaking of JibJab, we’re proud to announce that you’ll be seeing a lot more of them around here. Check out their network for some JibJab classics, and stay tuned for new videos.
The Fringe Fridays nominations continue with this, our last category: Best Indie Music Video. New technologies in video editing and the advent of video sites (like our own!) have enabled bands to create and distribute videos that rival those produced by multi-gazillion-dollar record companies. Here are six uber-indie groups who have created modern masterpieces of sound and vision.
Watch and votevoting is now over! Remember, the polls officially close on March 21st.
TGIFF: Thank goodness it’s Fringe Fridays, our weekly look at the best in animation and experimental video. It’s also the final day of nominations for the Yahoo! Video Awards. First, we’re going to look at the nominees for Best Animated Video. Some of the best animators on the planet upload to Yahoo! Video, making the task of narrowing down the nominee list rather excruciating. But here are six videos representing the diversity of animation, from CGI, to stop motion, to time lapse, and everything in between.
Big movie awards shows honor documentaries, so why shouldn’t we? Of course these are not the documentaries you’re likely to catch at the cineplex or on public television; these videos bring bite-size chunks of real life that are perfectly entertaining in their own right. This year’s nominees all take real subjects and report on them in a variety of different ways. From animation to verite, from speech to song, illustrations to motion-graphics, you almost wouldn’t know you’re learning something.
And come back tomorrow for a special Fringe Fridays edition of the Yahoo! Video Awards. We’ll be posting nominations for Best Animation and Best Indie Music Video.
We are very fortunate this year to have so many new members of the Yahoo! Video community. This category honors those who started uploading to us in 2007. We could have filled a whole page with nominees, but for practical reasons, we had to narrow it down to six. After debating, voting, pulling names out of hats, and coming just short of a brawl, our editorial team came up with the following nominees. Watch and then vote below! Voting is now over. Check out the results!
The Yahoo! Video Awards keep rolling on. This morning we honor the nominees for Best Series. From comedy to drama, though mostly the former, these shows helped viewers get through the tedious Hollywood writer’s strike. They offer fresh, well-written story-lines that can’t be contained in a single episode.
