Thank You in Five Words

The Webby Awards have a great tradition where all the winners get to make an acceptance speech but are capped at a maximum of five words. Creating this maximum length for a speech makes each winner have to judiciously choose the words and messages that will represent themselves. I think it’s a great idea.

Since I’m really busy with work this week and can’t really sit down and write a very original post (and because I don’t want to leave this site stagnant) I’m making a quick list of my favorite ‘five-word-speeches’ from this year’s Webby Awards below. You can see all the speeches at the Webby Awards speeches page.

Here’s a quick list of what I found to be quite clever…

Artist of the Year
Beastie Boys: Can anyone fix my computer?

Sports
The Reggie Bush Project: Finally, a Bush everyone loves.

Youth
Nick.com: Have sex, make more kids.

Professional Services
Mindflood Seduction: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Magazine
Salon.com: The Pulitzers are history.

Financial Services
CNNMoney.com: More popular than Lou Dobbs.

Travel
Wikitravel: No longer a Lonely Planet.

Science
HubbleSite: Houston, we have a winner.

Viral Marketing
Monk-e-Mail: Monkeys are funnier than people.

Animation
Animator vs. Animation II: Atom: Get into our shorts.

Drama
Itsallinyourhands.com: Imagine us with a budget.

Viral
The Diet Coke/Mentos Experiment: 18,000,000 views. Still no dates.

Of course, the best line of the ceremony (and best use of the web?) is AgencyNet’s Five Word Speech.com. You know, because sometimes you have much more to say.

There’s tons more at the Webby Awards speeches page, and be sure to check out speeches from previous years as well.