[DONE] YouTube Audience Award

17 May 11

The 2011 YouTube Audience Award was won by The Only Way is Essex as voted by the British public.

A record number of public votes were registered for this year’s YouTube Audience Award. The Only Way Is Essex took away the award, beating Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, Downton Abbey, The Killing, Miranda and Sherlock.

Watch The Only Way of Essex Accept their Award

Thank you to the audience, it's delightful that you like us this much.

The Award was presented to cast and members of the ITV production team from the show who flooded excitedly onto the stage. Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison, stars of the 2010 YouTube Audience Award winning show The Inbetweeners presented the Award.

On accepting the award, the production team at ITV said how delighted they were to have won and that 11 months go when they began filming the show, they never dreamed they'd be at the BAFTA Awards.

You Tube Audience Award winner: The Only Way Is Essex
BAFTA / Richard Kendal

The Nominated Shows:

Downton Abbey	The Killing	Miranda
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings	The Only Way is Essex	Sherlock

About the YouTube Audience Award

The YouTube Audience Award is the only Award voted for by the public. It rewards the programmes that have captured audiences’ imaginations and were the most watched, loved and talked about in 2010/11.

The Judging Process

A panel of entertainment journalists met on Thursday 31 March at BAFTA Headquarters. Their job was to select the six nominees from a long list comprising the highest rated shows in 2010/11 and other shows that had captured the imagination of the public. With the eligibility being between 1 March 2010 through to 28 February 2011.

The Media Panel

Andrew Billen – The Times
Emily Dean – Absolute Radio
Vicky Frost – The Guardian
Boyd Hilton – Heat Magazine
Alison Graham – Radio Times
Jane Lush – Chair, Splash Media

Neil Midgley – Daily Telegraph
Sara Nathan – Daily Mail
Andrew Pettie – The Telegraph
Colin Robertson – The Sun
Catriona Wightman – Digital Spy

YouTube Audience Award in 2010

Last year the YouTube Audience Award was picked up by The Inbetweeners. Find out more...

Michelle Hughes

(24-51-2011)

"The Vampire Mob on youtube is an incredible series that should have been up for nomination! "

Sean Sutton

(26-38-2011)

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW DID THIS WIN?! HOW?!"

Bex

(07-47-2011)

"Miranda should have got it hands down!"

Amy.

(01-04-2011)

"YAY! I Love TOWIE! its so good... i love ARG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P"

Laura

(27-34-2011)

"Aww well done TOWIE!!! Very well deserved :) "

[DONE] YouTube Audience Award