Few doubt that it was Singapore Press Holdings' night at WAN-Ifra's Asian Digital Media Awards event in Hong Kong.
We counted 13 awards to the Straits Times publisher (though some tally 11 or 12) with its 'It changed my life' online video series also triumphing in WAN-Ifra´s World Digital Awards last month.
SPH took five gold, six silver and two bronze awards in the 12 categories, including all three levels for the 'outstanding new product' category.
What was left was shared between leading regional news media companies including Apple Daily, South China Morning Post and Thomson Reuters.
A project for Western Australia's Road Safety Commission, 'Speedkills' took two awards for Seven West Media. Magazine publishers such as Mongoose Publishing and digital pure players like lifestyle website WardrobeTrendsFashion (WTF) were also honoured.
Two new categories this year honour the best lifestyle website and lifestyle mobile service. The presentations followed the first day of the Digital Media Asia conference, attended by 240 media executives from 28 countries.
Award winners were:
BEST NEWS WEBSITE:
Gold- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for Straitstimes.com;
Silver- Business Weekly Media Group Taiwan for BW Wealth;
Bronze- Newstag for www.newstag.com.
BEST LIFESTYLE WEBSITE:
Gold- WardrobeTrendsFashion for WardrobeTrendsFashion;
Silver- Popfolio Network for Poskod.MY;
Bronze- Star Media Group Berhad for mStar.
BEST DIGITAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN:
Gold- Al Nisr Publishing for Behind the wire;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd forCapitalandBuildSG2065;
Bronze- Seven West Media forspeedkills - Road Safety Commission.
BEST ONLINE VIDEO:
Gold- Popfolio Network for Poskod.MY;
Bronze- Star Media Group Berhad for mStar.
BEST DIGITAL ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN:
Gold- Al Nisr Publishing for Behind the wire;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd forCapitalandBuildSG2065;
Bronze- Seven West Media for speedkills - Road Safety Commission.
BEST ONLINE VIDEO:
Gold- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for It Changed My Life Series;
Silver- South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd for South China Morning Post - A maid's tale;
Bronze- TODAY, MediaCorp Press Ltd for Rebuilding Aceh, 10 years after tsunami.
BEST DATA VISUALISATION PROJECT:
Gold- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for Ocean's Fury;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for Who's Who Of Orchard Road;
Bronze- Thomson Reuters Asia Pte Ltd for Indian Ocean tsunami.
BEST MOBILE SERVICE:
Gold- The Indian Express Ltd for Journalism of Courage on Mobile;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for ST Mobile Apps;
Bronze- Malayala Manorama Company Ltd for Manorama Mobile.
BEST LIFESTYLE MOBILE SERVICE:
Gold- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for The Life E-book Series;
Silver- Mongoose Publishing Sdn Bhd for ELLE Malaysia App;
Bronze- WardrobeTrendsFashion for WardrobeTrendsFashion.
BEST IN TABLET PUBLISHING:
Gold- South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd for South China Morning Post - Tablet Edition;
Silver- Business Weekly Media Group Taiwan for Good Taste Book - San Francisco;
Bronze- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for ST STAR E-books App.
BEST READER ENGAGEMENT:
Gold- Apple Daily Ltd. for Hong Kong Umbrella Movement;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for LKY Tribute Wall;
Bronze- Seven West Media for Perth International Arts Festival - The Giants.
BEST OUTSTANDING NEW PRODUCT:
Gold- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for STOMP's iPad App;
Silver- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for ST170: A Journey Together To Celebrate;
Bronze- Singapore Press Holdings Ltd for ST On Apple Watch.
Pictured: Winners pose for a group picture
On our home page: Straits Times digital editor Eugene Leow (centre) with Google's Jeremy Butteriss and WAN-Ifra Asia chairman and Bangkok Post editor-in-chief Pichau Chuensuksawadi