The competition is open to all news publishers in Asia Pacific and the Middle East operating on any digital platform and willing to benchmark their services and products with their peers. Categories include: Best in Online Media; Best in Cross Media; Best in Online Video;  Best in Online Infographics; Best in Mobile Media; Best in Tablet Publishing; and Best in Social Media.

Entries must be submitted to WAN-IFRA by September 16, 2011.  Full information, including submission guidelines, can be found at http://www.wan-ifra.org/adma

Digital Media Asia Conference to be held from 23 to 25 November 2011

The winners will be honoured at the Asian Digital Media Awards reception, to be held at WAN-IFRA's Digital Media Asia 2011 conference, which will take place in Hong Kong from 23 to 25 November. It will be the first time Hong Kong hosts Asia's premier digital publishing event.

“With the mobile Internet and always-connected generation, publishers must transition from the 'MMM' approach -- multimedia, multichannel and multiplatform -- to a 'smart media' strategy to profitably engage consumers and increase the average revenue per user ,” said Thomas Jacob, Deputy CEO of WAN-IFRA and Managing Director for Greater Asia. "Our industry's future depends on this, and the conference and the Digital Media Awards are designed to help publishers achieve this goal."

The third Digital Media Asia conference will address the challenges facing publishers in the areas of Online & Social Media, Tablet Publishing and Mobile Media.

More information on the conference programme is available at http://www.wan-ifra.org/dma

WAN-IFRA, based in Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, with subsidiaries in Singapore, India, Spain, France and Sweden, is the global organisation of the world’s newspapers and news publishers. It represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. Its core mission is to defend and promote press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses.

Learn more about WAN-IFRA at http://www.wan-ifra.org or through the WAN-IFRA Magazine at http://www.wan-ifra.org/magazine

Inquiries to: Wilson Leong, Event & Training Executive, WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Phone: +65.6562-8446, Mobile: +65.929.888-67, E-mail: wilson.leong@wan-ifra.org