Malaysiakini wins top media brand award
March 25, 2010
Top news website Malaysiakini was yesterday recognised as one of the country’s favourite brands at the inaugural Putra Brand Awards.
Malaysiakini was picked as one of Malaysia’s top six media brands, alongside TV stations Astro, TV3, 8TV, newspaper The Star and global search engine Google.
According to award host the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia (4As), the Putra Brand Awards is unique as Malaysian consumers themselves are the judges.
A consumer research polling system involving 6,000 people helped select Malaysia’s most preferred brands across a spectrum of 18 categories with the top three brands in each category being honoured with a gold, silver and bronze ranking.
This is the largest consumer research sampling of its kind nationwide covering both East and West Malaysia.
Malaysiakini won the bronze trophy in the ‘media and entertainment’ category. Other winners in the same category are TV3 (bronze), The Star and 8TV (silver), Astro and Google (gold).
4As president Vincent Lee said the selection was organised in association with Malaysia’s Most Valuable Brands (MMVB) Awards.
While MMVB measures the best brands by financial valuations, the Putra Brand Awards measures best brands by consumer preferences.
“The Putra Brand Awards is a survey conducted to establish consumer confidence. We have 6,000 online responses, based on key attributes that establish consumer preference. It is the voice of the marketplace,” said Lee.
Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan received the award from International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Mukhriz Mahathir at a 1,000-strong gala dinner held at the Mandarin-Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur last evening.
Recognition for NGOs too
“Malaysiakini celebrated its 10th anniversary recently. There couldn’t be a better birthday present for us than to walk away with this prestigious award,” said Gan.
“Indeed, never in our wildest imagination did it occur to us that Malaysiakini will one day be considered one of the country’s most popular brands.”
Gan said the award was made possible by the many years of hard work and dedication from Malaysiakini’s team members as well as the loyal support from the website’s thousands of daily readers and subscribers.
Malaysiakini, launched in 1999 and available in four languages, delivers over 37 million page views and 750,000 video downloads per month to over 1.6 million absolute unique visitors.
The nation’s number one news portal has previously been recognised with awards from regional magazines Asiaweek and Business Week as well as the Vienna-based press freedom watchdog, the International Press Institute.
The Putra Brand Awards included a special merit award for community service where among those recognised are the Bar Council, National Human Rights Society (Hakam), Sisters in Islam and Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO).
Top local brands AirAsia, Petronas, Astro, Maxis and Maybank were among the prominent gold award winners.
Mukhriz, in his keynote speech, quoted Stephen King – not the horror fiction author but an executive from London-based marketing communications firm WPP Group – who once described the difference between a product and a brand.
“A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.”
Congratulations to Malaysiakini for continuing to keep the public fed with the truth and provide the info not available in the mainstream media. This award only confirms that the Malaysian public is starved of the truth being reported. Kudos to Steven, Prem and gang!
Sentinel - March 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Being a cutting edge critic of the Gomen and psedo VIPs and genuine pretenders , Malaysiakini deserves our accolade and more so , that the smiling fake Showman with the terrible moustage is forced yet again to feel good
thebaDderMen - March 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Mukhriz is a product….make in a factory, can be copied and outdated.
Sam01 - March 25, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Self-censorship is still censorship and Malaysiakini cannot claim to be free from it.
Mr Bean - March 25, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Ha Ha ,,Congrats Malaysiakini
I hope you did not win the award with the influence of a THIRD FORCE.
Looks like everywhere have some kind of a 3rd Force but not the 3rd Vote. Alas we have a foolish hardy 3rd Candidate for this weekend election and hopefully the result can be screen LIVE in 3 D.
What a pulsating week guys…..?
hangkebun - March 25, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Last time I met Mukhriz and the rest of the flock was around the dinner table in his father’s house when he was about six years old.
Mr Bean - March 25, 2010 at 10:08 pm
“…was about six years old.” Bean
Same age now.
Kudo’s to M’kini. They’re doing the ‘best’ they hope, and gives a fair review on most things.
Menyalak-er - March 25, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Since an independent poll involving 6,000 respondents from a cross section of Malaysians, the results obtained are pretty fair. Otherwise NST, Star and Utusan Malaysia would have won hands down. And Mah Che Chot not Mukhriz would be there to give away the awards.
Tok Cik - March 25, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Over here censorship of any kind if frowned upon. Self censorship is the worst kind of censorship.
Mr Bean - March 25, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Over here (US)censorship of any kind if frowned upon. -Mr. Bean
Americans, of whatever shades of color, are a bunch of hypocrites.
They clamed to live in the Land of the Free and the Brave but when it comes to push and shove, they made that piece of real estate into a Land of the Paranoids, living in fear of their own shadows after 9/11.
Frank - March 26, 2010 at 2:45 am
If they were once paranoid, they were for good reasons. And talking of real estate, it was the Republicans who under the pretext of not wanting to regulate the banking industry etc, allowed the property market to crash but only after they, their cronies made their pot of gold. Sounds familiar??
Mr Bean - March 26, 2010 at 3:55 am
Talking of being afraid of one’s shadows, the only shadows I know are these.
Peace baby!
Mr Bean - March 26, 2010 at 3:59 am
… and these.
Mr Bean - March 26, 2010 at 4:08 am
Dr. Bean,
Wake up. Din Merican is the candidate for Hulu Selangor.
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Tean, I don’t think you have the power to nominate me, even if you do, I would refuse it. I am NOT a politician!!
tean - March 26, 2010 at 10:00 am
Why Hulu Selangor??
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The Hulu Selangor seat fell vacant following the death of its member of parliament Dr Zainal Abidin Ahmad of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yesterday.
Zainal, 71, who was a former menteri besar of Selangor when he was in BN and joined PKR in 2005, defeated BN’s Datuk G. Palanivel by a slim majority of 198 votes in the last general election in 2008.
Mr Bean - March 26, 2010 at 11:09 am
…. or lose pants down.
Mr Bean - March 26, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Din should stand as a PAS candidate in Perak. He will win any time against UMNO, MCA, MIC and GERAKAN. Din and Nizar will make a good team.
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Frank, I am overwhelmed by your confidence. What make you think that I have the right qualities to be a politician. I know I am not a politician and politics isn’t my way of life. You, Bean, Tean, Oncho, etc can be politicians and make good candidates for political office. Bean wants me to be the UN or Washington as Malaysia’s diplomat. But for that he must talk to Najib.–Din Merican
Frank - March 26, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Din Merican,
It is interesting that you should mention that but I have in fact begun secret talks lobbying for your appointment as the next Ambassador to the U.S. as recently as last week since there is no hope of Pakatan ever taking over Putrajaya.
Mr Bean - March 27, 2010 at 12:27 am
I have in fact begun secret talks lobbying for your (Din) appointment as the next Ambassador to the U.S.- Mr Bean
That explains why Din has gone soft on Najib and UMNO-BN of late in his blog!!!!!
Another Rocky Bru in the making ????
Frank - March 27, 2010 at 3:30 am
Kudos to MalaysiaKini! The establishment can no longer ignore your role. Let this award serve as a reminder that truth cannot be suppressed. Utusan and NST had better realise, sooner than later, that their suppression of facts and their becoming a propaganda machinery make them no longer believeable as a newspaper. For their own survival, they better change, otherwise their readership will continue falling and they will become extinct!
The Star had better get rid of pimp editors like Lourdes Charles, otherwise they are headed the same way as the other two main stream media. Lourdes always report favourably about IGP Musa Hassan and perpetuated the lie that Musa is a law graduate. Now that Musa will be gone, the industry circle is abuzz that Lourdes is already looking for a new host to leach on.
kakrubi - March 27, 2010 at 8:36 am
Din should stand as a PAS candidate in Perak. He will win any time against UMNO, MCA, MIC and GERAKAN. Din and Nizar will make a good team._________Frank, I am overwhelmed by your confidence. What make you think that I have the right qualities to be a politician.- Din
Here (below) is why I think you and Nizar will be like two peas in a pod if you join PAS and stand as a candidate in Perak.
Your qualifications as a politician in my opinion is your honesty and sense of decency. You don’t have be an asshole to qualify as a politician as others do.
Click HERE to read article, “Nizar Jamaluddin: Our future PM?” by Mariam Mokhtar in Malaysiakini
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Frank - March 27, 2010 at 11:09 pm