Description : The rise of YouTube this year has been one of the most phenomenal rises of an online property in Internet history. With up to 100 million viewers in a given day and averaging 65,000 videos uploaded per day, YouTube has successfully leveraged network effects for growth and viral adoption with a success that few have ever equaled. Last year image sharing was the hot social media sharing play, but 2006 is clearly the year of video. You can find a video on just about anything you can think of on YouTube and its radical ease of use, innovative tagging infrastrcture, and drop-dead easy to host YouTube badge (with the Javascript snippet it for it right next to each and every video) sets the standard for the rest of the industry. The selection for this category was easy and YouTube was the clear choice.
