Chocolate Rain wins YouTube Award

I didn't know YouTube had a video awards ceremony. Who could forget the Chocolate Rain viral video by 25 year old Tay Zonday? Zonday is one of 12 to win the YouTube Video Awards and won in the Music category. The program is in its second year. His video Chocolate Rain had 15,768,410 views. WATCH VIDEO

Tay says in an AP interview:

It's the new Emmys...It's the next Oscars. The next People's Choice Awards. It'll be interesting to see what happens five years, 10 years (from now)...A lot of people see political commentary in (the song)...A lot of people find humor in it. A lot of people, they say their 2-year-olds can't stop repeating it at bedtime, so lots of people get different things out of the song. And I think the greatest consequence and the greatest mileage it can have is to get people asking questions."

He offered advice on how to have a successful YouTube video: "Just be very authentic and put yourself out there," he said in his mellifluous voice. "You'll never know what will happen." READ MORE...

Reference:
Yahoo! News
2007 YouTube Video Awards