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YouTube Play Nominated for Three Webby Awards

NEW YORK, NY.- On April 12, the Webby Awards announced that YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video has been nominated for awards in three categories: Best Web/Art, Best Web/Events, and Best Event/Live Webcast. Now in its fifteenth year, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences present Webby Awards to honor excellence on the Internet. Each category has two winners: the Academy selects one and the public, who can vote during the People’s Voice voting period, select the other. Visit the Webby’s website through April 28, 2011, to vote for YouTube Play in the Webby People’s Voice Awards. In October 2010, Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP and Intel, presented YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video. From more than 23,000 YouTube video submissions from 91 countries across the globe, the Guggenheim’s curators selected shortlist of 125 videos, from which