Webcastr Names Videos of the Year

Webcastr.com has announced the winners of it’s Top 10 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 Top 10:

– Heidi Loves Her Bazooms
– D*ck In A Box
– Led Zeppelin Reunion Concert in the UK
– Acting for the Greenscreen
– Bob Dylan Cadillac Commercial
– Britney Spears VMA Parody
– Don’t Taze Me, Bro
– Snoop Dogg in the UK
– The Chemical Bros. “Salmon Dance”
– Bush vs. Miss North Carolina

Plus an Honorable Mention going to:
– SUV Driving Through a Shopping Mall

According to the blurb, 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.

Gotta wonder.. what’s a “Webbery”.. something like a Shrubbery perhaps?

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