YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said that ``we started YouTube in 2005 as a contest with a simple goal: to find the best video in the world. "I encourage everybody to watch as many videos as possible before YouTube deletes everything tonight," said Antoine Dodson, who became an internet sensation when a musical version of his 2010 TV interview about a house intrusion was posted on YouTube . "Distinguished" film critics, YouTube celebrities and some of the site's "`most prolific" commentators are on the judges' panel, according to Liston.