YouTube announced today that it’s teaming up with the Guggenheim Museum and HP to put on the first “Biennial of Creative Video” — and they’re calling it YouTube Play. The project’s goal is to gather the very best videos on YouTube and display the 20 best nominees in Guggenheim museums around the globe.

What constitutes the “best” in YouTube videos? They’re surprisingly broad in that respect, stating that videos can be nominated if they are “animation, motion graphics, narrative, non-narrative, or documentary work, music videos and entirely new art forms.” That potentially covers just about every video type on the site, making this project truly accessible to all tube-enthusiasts — and that’s the way they want it to be.

Anybody with a YouTube account can submit their video at youtube.com/play, but the deadline is July 31st. So, if you haven’t gotten around to filming your miniature masterpiece yet — or just need to do some editing — you had better get on it. Oddly enough, the project is set up so that people can only submit their own videos, and each account can only submit one video for nomination. While it seems strange at first, it makes sense once you consider the usual band of hooligans that have managed to make YouTube video comments some of the most inane on the Internet.

Once the deadline hits, all the submissions will be sifted through by the Guggenheim, who will then put together a shortlist for an international “jury of experts.” That jury, made up of professionals in art, design, film and video will then determine the final videos to be displayed in the museums. They’re not going small-time with this either; the final YouTube Play exhibit will be going on simultaneously at Guggenheim museums in New York City, Berlin, Bilbao and Venice — that’s good stuff.

So what do you think? Do you have a video that you think could make it all the way to the Guggenheim?

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We hope campaigns in both national and local contests will use these toolkits to engage and inform voters on important issues in 2010. As access to information online is increasingly important in elections, we’re pleased to continue developing useful tools for voters and candidates.

Posted by Ginny Hunt, head of public sector programs

It’s no secret that any successful 21st century political campaign must have a robust online strategy to succeed. But elected officials and candidates need more than just a website and a YouTube channel to engage voters: from President Obama’s YouTube interview to Senator Scott Brown’s campaign team’s use of Google Docs to Congressman Scott Murphy’s “Google blast” ad strategy, we’re seeing politicians use more and more of our products and platforms to interact with voters, share information and keep their campaigns organized.

We want to do our part to make sure candidates and campaigns have the tools to stay close to voters, who now expect to hear and see much more from their elected officials than ever before. So today, we’re launching YouTube’s You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit and a new and improved Google Campaign Toolkit. Both help candidates make their organizations more effective and deliver their messages more directly. On YouTube, campaigns will have access to features like a Politician channel (which allows campaigns to brand their channel and upload longer videos), Google Moderator, our free analytics tool YouTube Insight, and information about running paid advertising campaigns—using formats like in-stream ads and Promoted Videos—to reach viewers with political ads, just like on TV. And our Google toolkit demonstrates how Google Apps can keep staff and volunteers connected, how search ads can grow your email list and provides other helpful tools.

We hope campaigns in both national and local contests will use these toolkits to engage and inform voters on important issues in 2010. As access to information online is increasingly important in elections, we’re pleased to continue developing useful tools for voters and candidates.

Posted by Ginny Hunt, head of public sector programs

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