And the Tuby for best overall video goes to ...

Since the good people at YouTube didn't bother to declare an overall cross-category winner in this year's Tubies, I'll do it myself.  We had a really excellent field of candidates this year--but as you know, there can be only one best. While Laughing Baby was truly nonpareil, it would be a disservice to online video to say it was the best one of the millions produced in 2007. The same goes for guys skateboarding among balloons, Rubik's cube solver, Human Tetris, and Harry Potter suicide bomber. 

The true standout in this group is Felicia Day's "The Guild," perhaps the smartest (and definitely the funniest) webisodic series of the year. See my fawning post (and some of the funny comments) here. 

"The Guild" revolves around a group of obsessive online video-game players who know each other through their characters, but not in real life. Even for the non-gamers among us (you dwindling demographic, you!), the tension between virtual relationships and real ones grows daily stronger, and "The Guild" is the first show to pick up on that theme. So congratulations to the First Annual Web Scout Best of the YouTube Video Awards Award Winner, "The Guild"!

Comments

[Felicia]

Thank you so much! What an honor! It's been a whirlwind few weeks with the show. I'm just excited that all the people on our show, cast and crew, who have worked for free for almost a year can be celebrated for thier achievements, it's been a fantastic experience!

[owen McCracken]

The guild rocks! I'm so happy out of some 10 million wow subscribers there's a show about us now! And it's too funny!