page_title: YouTube Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: YouTube Awards / 2008 Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Thanks for viewing the official Streamy Awards photos! The exclusive photos of the winners and presenters are here. You don't want to miss those! We could not have done this without our awesome team of associate photographers: Bonny Pierzina Gabriel Ryan Laura Kearse Joe Philipson Kevin Calumpit Luis Miguel Munoz-Najar Actually, without our production team we could not have done this either: Josh Allard Megan Chrisofferson Mark Bealo Scott Kearse Thanks so much everyone for your hard work, and thanks so much Streamy Awards for using us again for the official photography! Please feel free to use these photos under a Creative Commons Attribution license (which means you may use the photos as long as you attribute the photos to TheBuiBrothers.com and provide a link back to TheBuiBrothers.com) You can learn more about the Sreamy Awards by visiting www.streamys.org Also, you can learn more about these photos by visiting our website with our favorite Streamy Awards photos.
context_page_description: The YouTube Awards was a promotion run by the video-sharing website YouTube to recognize the best user-generated videos of the year. The awards were presented twice, in 2007 and 2008, with winners being voted for by the site's users from shortlists compiled by YouTube staff. YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, and quickly began to grow – by July 2006, traffic to the site had increased by 297 percent. As a result of this success, YouTube launched their own awards promotion in March 2007 to honor some of the site's best videos. Seven shortlists were compiled, with ten videos per shortlist. Users were invited to vote for the winners over a five-day period at a dedicated web page. Singer Damian Kulash, whose band OK Go won in the Most Creative category for their music video Here It Goes Again, said that receiving a YouTube Award was a surreal honor and that the site was changing culture "quickly and completely".
  The YouTube Awards returned the following year, to commemorate the best videos of 2007. That year, the number of categories was expanded from seven to twelve, while the number of videos per shortlist was reduced from ten to six.
caption: Michael Buckley's video LonelyGirl15 is Dead! won in the Best Commentary category.
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