NEW KAZANJIANM ART CONTEST: 3/10/12 Deadline

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YouTube Topics Search- http://youtube.com/topics
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Visual Arts Category Playlist- http://www.youtube.com/playlis....t?list=PLEA626A08B26

Lets celebrate our progress in working towards a visual arts category on YouTube with a new contest. My goal whenever I hold a contest is to bring the art community together and highlight all of the insanely amazing art work that is on YouTube. I want to give talented artists the exposure that they deserve.

Last December, I held a contest called "Who is the most underrated artist on YouTube"? For that contest, I asked people to vote in the comments section of the video for who they consider to be the most underrated artist on YouTube. This contest got over 1000 comments and the winner of that contest, BarryPFinnegan2 got hooked up. The subscribership on his channel doubled from 500 to 1000 in less than a month.

I am still getting requests to repeat that contest so we are going to do it again. So welcome to Who is the most underrated artist on YouTube 2. Here are the very simple rules.

Question: What channel do you think is the most underrated visual arts channel on YouTube?

(We will define underrated as having less than 10,000 subscribers.)

To vote, simply write that channels name in the comments section of this video. That is all that you have to do. One week from today, I am going to tally up all of the comments and up votes, and I am going to do something special for the channel that gets the most votes.

Remember the whole point of this contest is for youtube artists to become more aware of each other. I recommend that you use the AWESOME new tool that youtube gave us called topic search. I will link to it in the video description. Try putting your favorite keywords in here. I guarantee that you will find some new and cool stuff.

If you want to showcase your work to recruit people to vote for you, please feel free to:

1.) post your best video as a video response to this video.
2.) post your best video to my facebook page. http://facebook.com/kazanjianm

So YouTube gave us a new toy called Topics. I am linking to it in the video description because is a great resource to navigate the many genres of art uploaded to YouTube. Im going to use topics to prove a point. There are a LOT of artists on YouTube.



So this is our new toy, Youtube topics, we are going to do a search for art. And then we will learn that there are amount one million art videos on YouTube and these videos have a viewership in the billions. Lets compare the art results from YouTube topics and compare it with some other popular keywords. Art beats sports, basketball, education and even cosmetics in the total number of videos. Please note that two of these topics are specific categories already and I know that I speak for a LOT of people when I say that art should be next.

It makes me mad when I see a great artist with a small following. Contests like this one are designed to change things fast.