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Emmys recognize online video with this year's nominees
You knew this was coming. The Emmys announced back in March that it would expand its award categories beyond the conventional, big-budget television productions to include short-form series, virtual reality and internet-only videos -- and it has. At the upcoming 68th annual Emmy Awards, five popular online series are in the running for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series. The nominees include YouTube hits Epic Rap Battles of History and Honest Trailers, Funny or Die's Gay of Thrones, and both Making A Scene With James Franco and Park Bench With Steve Buscemi from AOL.
Epic Rap Battles of History gets an iOS app
You've probably seen the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History before -- they're the wild guys behind the (slightly not safe for work) Steve Jobs and Bill Gates rap battle, where the two creators, Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist, face off as the two titans of the computer industry in a catchy rap song. Shukoff and Ahlquist have been working hard on the video series, which is now in season 2, and have portrayed fights such as Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, Adam vs. Eve and Hitler vs. Darth Vader to the tune of more than a billion YouTube views so far. And all of that success has turned into an iPhone app, available for free from the App Store. The app lets you watch all of the various videos from the series, including behind-the-scenes footage, and you can get other news and insight about the series.
