It was a very good night for Singapore Press Holdings, taking home 11 medals from the Asian Digital Media Awards.
Presentations were made at the end of the second day of WAN-Ifra’s Digital Media Asia event in Kuala Lumpur.
SPH’s group haul of four gold medals, two silver and five bronze included recognition of its OneST branding and individual prizes for its cars and classifieds sites, video and editorial.
Multiple awards also went to SevenWest/WAN and the South China Morning Post.
Also among the 20 winning publishers were: Fairfax Media’s The Age, Indonesia’s Kompas and the Nation Group. The competition was judged by 29 jury members from media companies in Europe, the UK, South America, the USA, South Africa and Japan.
About 290 media executives from 31 countries are attending the conference, which concludes tomorrow.
ASIAN DIGITAL MEDIA AWARDS 2013 RESULTS
ONLINE MEDIA
Newspaper website: Gold– Singapore Press Holdings for stomp.com.sg; silver– APN NZ for New Zealand Herald Online; bronze– Singapore Press Holdings for OneST - One Brand, Multiple Platforms; and Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd for The Star Online; and The Asahi Shimbun For 3.11 Earthquake & Restoration – Multimedia.
Magazine Website: Gold– Mongoose Publishing for Time Out Kuala Lumpur; and Senatus for senatus.net; silver– SPH Magazines for herworldplus; bronze– Business Weekly Group Taiwan for Business Weekly.
ONLINE VIDEO
Gold– MINDEF Public Affairs for MINDEF’s Online Video, Fat to Fit; silver– West Australian Newspapers for Bali Remembered; bronze– Singapore Press Holdings for 48 Singaporean Seconds.
ONLINE INFOGRAPHICS
Gold– South China Morning Post Publishers for Kowloon Walled City, Life in the City of Darkness; silver– Yonhap News Agency for The 18th Presidential Election; bronze– South China Morning Post Publishers for 21HK: Waste water management: the cocktail of chemicals we create.
CROSS MEDIA AWARD
Editorial coverage: Gold– Seven West Media for Syria's Refugee Crisis; silver– Singapore Press Holdings for The Haze In Singapore; bronze– Kasturi & Sons Ltd for The Hindu, My Chennai, My Right.
Advertising: Gold – Singapore Press Holdings for Tiger Beer "Have you been good this year"; silver– nxTomo for Apple Daily, The Arctic Project; bronze– Singapore Press Holdings for STCars; and Singapore Press Holdings for STClassifieds.
MOBILE PUBLISHING
Gold– Thanh Nien Newspaper for Thanh Nien Mobile; silver– Malayala Manorama Company for Malayala Manorama Mobile; bronze– nxTomo for Apple Daily Mobile App; and Singapore Press Holdings for STProperty.
TABLET PUBLISHING
Gold– PT Kompas Media Nusantara for Kompas Archipelago Culinary Expedition; and Singapore Press Holdings for Wanbao iPad App, Lianhe Wanbao & omy.sg; silver– The Age Company for The Age tablet; bronze–NDTV for NDTV Convergence.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Gold– Nation Broadcasting Corporation Public Company Limited for Nation Group; and Singapore Press Holdings for ST Communities, Post. Publish, Be Entertained; silver– Apple Daily Publication Development, Taiwan for Apple Daily, Taiwan; bronze– The Indian Express for The Indian Express.
Pictured on our homepage: Celebrating the success of Thanh Nien Daily’s mobile site were, from Vietnam (centre) editor-in-chief Nguyen Quang Thong with (from left) Truong Van Khoa, Thuc Minh, Thang Tran and Hoi Thanh
Top: Winners (or most of them) gather for a group photograph