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The folks behind the Jersey Doesn’t Stink! advocacy campaign yesterday announced that the video made by Jersey City’s Salvatore Salpietro — “Where Could This Be? Jersey City” — was one of two winners of its “Awesome Jersey” video contest.

As we first reported a few weeks ago, the new Jersey City resident made the video just months after pledging to never live in New Jersey upon his return to the U.S. from Europe. But after seeing Jersey City, Salpietro decided to move here, and as the video proves, he’s clearly taken a newfound pride in his adopted hometown.

While Salpietro’s video didn’t attain the most votes and YouTube likes, with 100 compared to 195 votes for “I’m From New Jersey,” he points out that the high vote-getting video had been online since 2006, racking up more than 150 votes before the contest even began. In the end, High Point Insurance, the main company behind the Jersey Doesn’t Stink! campaign, decided to name both top videos winners.

Salpietro says he was overwhelmed by the response to the video.

“Most of the responses were from a community of people proud of Jersey City … both what it is and what it is and what it is becoming,” he says. “Some people, though, that felt the video skewered reality. In either case, it was great to see that people cared enough to spread the word about the video, contest, and Jersey City. About 1,500 people saw that video in a week, which we feel is pretty great.”

Both winners will receive an iPad as a prize. Salpietro says that he and his friends who helped with the video are still figuring out the details, but they plan to auction off the iPad and donate most of the proceeds to Liberty Humane Society.