Lonelygirl Tops AP's Best YouTube Videos
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By JAKE COYLE  2006 was the year YouTube became culturally ubiquitous. Declared the invention of the year by Time magazine, the video sharing web site had Ohio judges posting their weekly sentencing hearings and spawned countless explosive experiments involving Diet Coke and Mentos candies.
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Three months and millions of page views after lonelygirl15's debut, the most recent Internet phenomenon turned into a detective story and came to a conclusion last week.
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After months of intrigue, the identities of Web video star lonelygirl15 and her producers are revealed.
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When Ben Relles uploaded his first video online, he didn't do it for the money. Like many creators filling video-sharing sites with material, Relles' initial motivations were more artistically pure. He just wanted attention.
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By Doreen Carvajal  Perhaps it is fitting that a 50-second video clip of an ear- shattering explosion of 13 shortwave radio antenna towers on the Spanish Costa Brava is getting viewers on the Web site YouTube.
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"Obama Girl," a tearful defense of Britney Spears and an attack by a herd of buffaloes on a pride of lions were among the most popular video clips on YouTube.com this year.
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NEW YORK  &#151; The music video is shrinking. With the music industry in crisis from falling sales and file sharing, labels have less cash to subsidize elaborate videos that will mostly be seen in miniature on computers. The result has been a major shift in the art form, as artists increasingly embrace the YouTube aesthetic with cheap, stripped-down, low-production videos.
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Music videos from artists like  Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally  available for the first time on YouTube, a popular online video  sharing site, after signing its first commercial partnership  with Warner Music Group .
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A celebrity break-up puts the spotlight on a taboo subject. And the internet comes to the rescue of divorced lonelyhearts.
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MySpace.com vs YouTube : Online Video Wars MySpace and YouTube are beginning to duke it out over which site serves the most online videos and according to a couple of recent studies, it is still undecided which site streams the most content.  Yahoo Video and Google Video are both fairly active in the online video market, [...]
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The Internet series lonelygirl15 has signed a deal with Los Angeles Neutrogena to have one of the Los Angeles company's young scientists appear on the show.
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Music videos from Madonna, Red Hot  Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally available for the  first time on YouTube, the online video sharing site, which  signed its first commercial partnership with Warner Music Group  Corp. on Monday.
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Valley girl character Kelly "betch-slaps" the competition as Liam Sullivan's compulsive-shopping video takes the prize for best user-generated video.
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Videos by a self-styled Obama Girl, a  fan's tearful defense of Britney Spears and an attack by a herd  of buffaloes on a pride of lions, were among the most popular  clips on YouTube.com in 2007.
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Online video-sharing website YouTube launched an innovative money-maker with its first paid video advertisement, for a music CD by celebrity bad girl Paris Hilton.
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The YouTube Effect is amazing -- and potentially goofy.
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How a 19-year-old actress and a few struggling web filmmakers took on TV. A Wired magazine exclusive by Joshua Davis.