Singapore, 25 November 2011 - Singapore Press Holdings
(SPH) won a total of seven awards at the Asian Digital
Media Awards 2011 organised by the World Association of
Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in conjunction
with the third Digital Media Asia Conference. The awards
attracted entries from more than 40 media companies across
15 Asian countries, and the results were announced last
night in Hong Kong.
The Asian Digital Media Awards acknowledges the best of how
individuals and organisations embraced new technology,
innovative thinking and creativity in digital media in
Asia.
SPH won two Cross Media awards in the Cross Media
Advertising category, reinforcing the fact that SPH is the
most innovative company in the region when it comes to
cross media marketing. SPH's inaugural trade event
'SPH Turns You On' won a Gold Award. The win marked
the second time SPH has clinched the Gold award in this
category. The Straits Times on iPad, which has been well
received by advertisers who created interactive
advertisements for their brands, won a Bronze Award.
Also proving its strength in mobile publishing, SPH won
both the Gold and Silver Awards in the Best In Mobile Media
Award - Mobile Publishing category. SPH's
straitstimes.com won the Gold Award, while AsiaOne won the
Silver Award. At last year's inaugural Asian Digital
Media Awards, the Gold award was also bagged by SPH. The
award honours the best and most innovative services offered
by a newspaper publisher on a mobile platform.
Another Gold Award was won by straitstimes.com in the Best
in Online Media Award - Newspaper Website category, while
HardwareZone.com, by SPH Magazines, a wholly owned
subsidiary of SPH, won the Silver Award in the Best In
Online Media Award - Magazine Website category.
STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), SPH's
popular online citizen journalism portal, won a Bronze
medal in the Best in Social Media Award category.
Awards won by SPH at the Asian Digital Media Awards 2011
Best in Online Media Award - Newspaper Website
Gold - straitstimes.com
Best in Online Media Award - Magazine Website
Silver - HardwareZone.com
Best in Cross Media Award - Cross Media Advertising
Gold - 'SPH Turns You On' trade event
Bronze - The Straits Times on iPad
Best in Mobile Media Award - Mobile Publishing
Gold - straitstimes.com
Silver - AsiaOne
Best in Social Media Award
Bronze - STOMP
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For more information, please contact:
Mr Adrian Cheong
Manager
Corporate Communications Division
Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
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About Singapore Press Holdings Ltd
Incorporated in 1984, main board-listed Singapore Press
Holdings Ltd (SPH) is Southeast Asia's leading media
organisation, engaging minds and enriching lives across
multiple languages and platforms.
Newspapers, Magazines and Book Publishing
In Singapore, SPH publishes 18 newspaper titles in four
languages. Every day, 3 million individuals or 77 per cent
of people above 15 years old, read one of SPH's news
publications. SPH also publishes and produces more than 100
magazine titles in Singapore and the region, covering a
broad range of interests from lifestyle to information
technology. SPH's subsidiaries, Straits Times Press and
Focus Publishing, produce quality books and periodicals in
English and Chinese.
Internet and Mobile
Beyond print, the Internet editions of SPH newspapers enjoy
over 265 million page views with 18 million unique visitors
every month. Apart from SPH AsiaOne portal, SPH's
online and new media initiatives include an online
marketplace for products, services and employment, ST701;
Stomp, omy.sg, and The Straits Times RazorTV. SPH also
launched The Straits Times' iPad and enhanced iPhone
applications, and The Business Times Weekend's iPad
application.
Broadcasting
SPH has a 20 per cent stake in MediaCorp TV Holdings Pte
Ltd, which operates free-to-air channels 5, 8 and U, and a
40 per cent stake in MediaCorp Press Limited, which
publishes the free newspaper, Today. In the radio business,
SPH has an 80 per cent stake in SPH UnionWorks Pte Ltd,
which operates entertainment stations Radio 100.3 in
Chinese and 91.3FM in English.
Events and Out-of-Home Advertising
SPH's events subsidiary Sphere Exhibits organises
innovative consumer and trade events and exhibitions. In
addition, SPH has ventured into out-of-home (OOH)
advertising through its wholly-owned subsidiary, SPH
MediaBoxOffice Pte Ltd, Singapore's leading Digital
Out-of-Home advertising company.
Properties
SPH owns and manages Paragon, the prime retail and office
complex in the heart of Orchard Road, Singapore's main
shopping belt. Its latest retail development, The Clementi
Mall, started business operations in 2011. SPH's
wholly-owned subsidiary, Times Development Pte Ltd, has
also developed a 43-storey upmarket residential
condominium, Sky@eleven, at Thomson Road.
