Yahoo Promotes User-Submitted Video with Yammy Awards

Posted on July 29, 2005

Yahoo is promoting user-submitted videos with a new contest called The Yammys (Yahoo's Video Search Awards). To find The Yammys homepage people have to search Yahoo for the keyword Yammys. Videos will be accepted until August 17th, 2005. The Yammys will offer five different categories:

Road Trips: Fun vacation moments.
Office Humor: Pranks, skits, and other office hijinks.
Bloopers: DOH moments.
Pets: Yahoo wants to see what Fluffy can do.
I Can't Believe It!: A miscellaneous category -- it doesn't fit into any of the above categories.

Here are the contest phases:

Videos accepted between July 27 and August 17.
Semi-finalists announced on August 30
Fans and friends cast their votes August 30-September 12.
Grand prize winner selected and announced by celebrity judges approximately September 19.

The celebrity judges Jenny McCarthy, Kelly Monaco, Pauly Shore and Director Wyatt Neumann will make the final decision about who wins in each category.