Nineteen companies shared the honours in this year’s second Asian Digital Media Awards.
Regular winner Singapore Press Holdings went home with a haul of eight awards including two golds, while it was also a very good night for PT Kompas Media (four awards including two gold) and Star Publications (three awards including two gold).
Held in Hong Kong as part of WAN-Ifra’s ‘sold-out’ Digital Media Asia conference, the awards honour some of the best online, mobile and crossmedia work by newspapers and magazines in the region. They were being presented for the second time after being split from the Asian Media Awards.
Winners were:
Online media, newspaper website: gold – Singapore Press Holdings for straitstimes.com/ttl; silver – Malayala Manorama Company for manoramaonline.com/children, and PT Kompas Media Nusantara for Kompas.com; bronze – Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia) for asia.WSJ.com.
Magazine website: gold – Edipresse Hong Kong for asiatatler.com/hong-kong; silver – SPH Magazines for HardwareZone.com; bronze – Gramedia Majalah for KawankuMagz.com.
Online video: gold – The Associated Press for India Polio Eradication Interactive; silver – The Bangkok Post for A Dummy's Guide To Thai Politics, and Fairfax Media for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald; bronze – Star Publications (Malaysia) for Disappearing Underwater Rainforest, and The Bangkok Post for Through the Looking Glass.
Online infographics, gold – AFP - Agence France-Presse Asia Pacific for 3D Animated Video Graphics; silver – Al Bayan for Training a Horse; bronze – Al Bayan, F1 Teams.
Cross media, editorial coverage: gold – The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) for Berita Harian, and PT Kompas Media Nusantara for Kompas Citarum Expedition; silver – Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia) for The Wall Street Journal Asia; bronze – Fairfax Media for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Cross media advertising: gold – Singapore Press Holdings for 'SPH Turns You On' Trade Event; silver – Bennett, Coleman & Co (The Times Group) for Billion Hearts Beating; bronze – Singapore Press Holdings for The Straits Times on iPad.
Mobile publishing: gold – Nation News Network for The Nation, and Singapore Press Holdings for StraitsTimes.com; silver –PT Tempo Inti Media Harian for Tempointeraktif.com, and Singapore Press Holdings for AsiaOne; bronze – udn.com for udn Mobile.
Tablet publishing: gold – Star Publications (Malaysia) for The Star iPad; silver – NDTV Convergence for NDTV HD, and Fairfax Media for The Age; bronze – PT Kompas Media Nusantara for Kompas Editors' Choice for PlayBook, and Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia) for The Wall Street Journal Asia for iPad.
Social media: gold – Star Publications (Malaysia) for R.AGE on Social Media; silver – Guangdong Southern Weekly New Media for Southern Weekly@SNS; bronze – Singapore Press Holdings for STOMP.
The three-day Digital Media Asia event concludes tomorrow with a focus on e-reading and tablets.
Pictured: The Star Publications team of Nor Shalina Abd Samad, Ivy Soon, Lee Mee Yook and Melody Goh celebrate their success
Below: Winners after last night's presentations