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YouTube has launched the first ever YouTube Awards. Nominees in 7 different categories will recieve awards for most creative, most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary, and most adorable. Voting by users has started on March 19 at about 2 PM Pacific Time. Mashable appears to have blogged about the story first.(link not live as of Sunday night), according to various reports.

 This week viewers can vote to pick their favorites of 2006. It's kind of like the Oscars. Clicking on playlist shows a full listing of clips to vote.

There's much discussion highlighting that this isn't a new idea. In fact, the Vloggies did it last year and it was an complete excellent event organized.

Marshall Kirkpatrick from SplashCast has painstakingly taken the time to add all the nominated videos to a single SplashCast player, which I have embedded on the right side.. [via NewTeeVee] Video attached on the right..

This awards event should have taken place atleast in the first week of jan 2007 and not this late !! And I don't know why are they trying to make users vote again for the videos, already they have a rating system to vote for the best,by the users and even the editor's pick too.Dosen't it look unnecessary…. ..anyway ..who am i to comment on it !! go go.. Put your votes ..

Categories :

Most creative, Most inspirational, best series, best comedy, musician of the year, best commentary, and Most adorable.

What do Winners get ?

Winners of this year's YouTube Awards will receive trophies and special promotion on YouTube's front page.

(Any Cash prizes waiting ?? it would be good if there were some ..! )

Deadline : Vote now and vote often. Every hour you can rank your favorites until Youtube freezes voting on March 23, 2007, at 3pm PT.

via [ YouTube Awards ]