For what it's worth, Freetime is profoundly unpopular, and we still won a People's Choice for Best Documentary, so this isn't necessarily true.
Also, having the Vloggy definitely improved our viewership, as we went from being completely unknown to being only moderately unknown. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > Popular shows win, because they get more votes. Popular shows tend > to be commercial show concepts rather than, say, personal > videoblogs. So in the end the main benefactors of awards are popular > shows who can then put up banners saying "Winner of 5 vloggies" and > tell that to their viewers and the press. That might help Ask A > Ninja or Galacticast or Ze Frank who benefit from being seen by the > maximum number of people because they have mass appeal.