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An\u00a0MTV Video Music Award<\/strong>\u00a0(commonly abbreviated as a\u00a0VMA<\/strong>) is an award presented by the cable channel\u00a0MTV\u00a0to honor the best in the\u00a0music video\u00a0medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the\u00a0Grammy Awards\u00a0(in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the “Super Bowl\u00a0for youth”, an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony’s ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year.\u00a0By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award. \u00a0The statue given to winners is an\u00a0astronaut\u00a0on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and was colloquially called a “moonman”. However, in 2017 Chris McCarthy, the President of MTV, stated that the statue would be called a “Moon Person” from then on.\u00a0The statue was conceived by\u00a0Manhattan Design\u2014also designers of the original MTV logo\u2014based on the 1981 “Top of the Hour” animation created by\u00a0Fred Seibert, produced by\u00a0Alan Goodman, and produced by\u00a0Buzz Potamkin\u00a0at\u00a0Buzzco Associates. The statue is now made by New York firm,\u00a0Society Awards. Since the 2006 ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general categories by visiting MTV’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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