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Sunday, December 10, 2023

Shopee's First Super Awards: Celebrating Continued Partner Journey

Toto 9:05:00 PM

Traffic may be heavy nowadays, but there's no stopping us from enjoying Shopee's Super Awards!

Shopee, the top online shopping platform in the country, just had its first Shopee Super Awards. It was a night of thanks and acknowledgment, honoring the efforts of its valued partners on the platform. The event emphasized Shopee's dedication to building strong, ongoing partnerships with brands, sellers, creators, and industry allies to ensure shared success.

"The inaugural run of Super Awards here in the Philippines is a testament to our shared dedication and commitment to delivering exceptional experiences to our users," said Vincent Lee, Head of Shopee Philippines. “This is our way of expressing our gratitude to our partners who chose to journey with us; as the key driving force in the success of our platform, we are committed to strengthening these collaborations and forging even more partnerships to achieve even more remarkable milestones together.”

Shopee superstar ambassador Vice Ganda was present to deliver her unique brand of entertainment and life to everyone at the event.

Shopee Brand Ambassador

Vice Ganda

The awards ceremony showcased Shopee’s diverse roster of partners who, along with their success, also played a pivotal role in Shopee's expansion over the years. Categories included recognition for growth, innovation, and community impact, highlighting the multifaceted ways Shopee and its partners synergize for shared achievements. Major awardees include Metrobank (Bank Partner of the Year), GMA Kapuso Foundation (Charity Partner of the Year), Michelle Dy (Content Creator of the Year), and Dianne Medina (Stellar Livestreamer of the Year). Meanwhile, recipients of special awards were treated to roundtrip flight tickets from Cebu Pacific.

Media personality Dianne Medina gets the Stellar Livestreamer of the Year award.

Stellar Livestreamer of the Year

Dianne Medina

GMA Kapuso Foundation Inc. EVP and COO Rikki Escudero-Catibog receives the Charity Partner of the Year award for their organization.

Charity Partner of the Year: GMA Kapuso Foundation Inc.

Rikki Escudero-Catibog, EVP/COO

Among the top awardees of the night was retail company INSPI, who was named Brand Partner of the Year. After marking their presence on the platform in 2018, they became one of Shopee’s top apparel brands during the pandemic—even able to come head to head with big local brands. “Shopee allows us to keep growing our customer base. The platform's user-friendly design, expansive reach, and marketing tools have empowered our business to thrive in the digital marketplace,” said Kenny Tsai, CEO of INSPI. “We know the importance of gaining the full trust of our shoppers; that’s why we will continue to work with Shopee to provide our shoppers with the best shopping experience.”

Beauty Queen, actress, and model Megan Young hosted the first-everShopee Super Awards together with Shopee PH’s Bianca Umali3.

Hosts

Megan Young

Bianca Umali of Shopee Philippines

Clothing retail company INSPI bagged the Brand Partner of the Year award, with Business Director Kerwin Tan and Junior Account Manager Kathryn Navalta receiving the honor.

Brand Partner of the Year: INSPI

Kerwin Tan, Business Director

Kathryn Navalta, Junior Account Manager

On the other hand, Seller of the Year JG Superstore saw new heights after moving their business online. Owners Oliver and Jill Tan started their business as a small retail store carrying innovative gadgets but would only have as little as one sale per day. After deciding to sell their products in Shopee back in 2016, their business has grown over 10x in the last seven years, with sales seeing at least 3x the GMV during double-digit campaigns. Through the e-commerce platform, they are also able to expand their customer base and reach new customers outside of Metro Manila. To date, they carry 180+ brands and have become a trusted store for various gadgets, equipment, and accessories online.

Program Manager Mark Fernandez from Metrobank receives the Bank Partner of the Year award.

Bank Partner of the Year: Metrobank

Mark Fernandez, Program Manager

SB19’s Pablo and Stell are joined by Shopee PH Head of Marketing Huiyan Pan to put on a thrilling show for the guests at the Shopee Super Awards 2023.

Pablo & Stell of SB19 with

Huiyan Pan, Head of Marketing Shopee Philippines

To thank users for their continued patronage, Shopee users are being treated to exciting deals and discounts in the upcoming 12.12 Mega Pamasko Sale. This includes free shipping with P0 minimum spend, exclusive 70% off on Pamasko Deals from a wide roster of brands and sellers, Shopee Mall Outlet deals with discounts of up to 90% off, and Shopee Live Milyonaryo where lucky winners can walk away with up to one million pesos!

Entrepreneur Jill Tan wins Seller of the Year for JG Superstore.

Seller of the Year: JG Superstore

Jill Tan, Owner

Social media personality and content creator Karen Reyes wins Shopee Live Entertainer of the Year.

Shopee Live Entertainer of the Year

Karen Reyes

Users can also anticipate discounts from brands like Callie, Cetaphil, Crown, gomo, Infinix, INSPI, Issy, Itel, JBL, Keds, Kleenfant, L'Oreal Paris, Mikana, MSI, Organic, Organic Skin Japan, P&G Beauty, Shigetsu, Sperry, Sunnies Face, Tecno, Tiny Buds, Unicare, Unilever, vivo and Zeus.

Actress, model, and host Denise Laurel is named the Shopee Live Crowd Favourite of the Year.

Shopee Live Crowd Favourite of the Year

Denise Laurel

What are you waiting for? Mark your calendars for a year-end shopping extravaganza like no other this 12.12!

Sunday, April 10, 2022

updates

A&Q Entertainment Level Up and Ventures Into Streaming Through a Filipino-Korean Partnership

Toto 7:42:00 AM

Great news for the entertainment industry, A&Q, a neophyte in the Philippine Entertainment industry has leveled up. Here's the story.

Philippines’ A&Q Entertainment and Prime Stream, Inc. has announced a groundbreaking link with South Korea's Sun Mobile Commerce (SBT) as the two companies signed an agreement on April 6 at their newly opened headquarters in Quezon City.

Atty. Aldwin F. Alegre, CEO and President of A&Q Entertainment and Prime Stream, met with Seo Byung-yul, head of the Philippine corporation of SBT, along with key personalities, to seal the deal of launching a new OTT (Over-the-Top) media service called AQ Prime.

This marks another step forward for A&Q as it aims to be the most recognized brand in handling Filipino entertainment, not just in the Philippines, but also around the world. A&Q Films Production is the company behind the successful 2021 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) entry ‘Nelia,’ top-billed by Winwyn Marquez and Raymond Bagatsing.

For its latest venture into the online world, ‘AQ Prime’ is more than geared to operate the entertainment and media streaming platform and online distribution of movies, live events, as well as series, news, sports, and online entertainment shows through free-to-watch titles apart from its premium contents under affordable subscriptions.

“The newly launched OTT service in the Philippines is AQ Prime, which competes with worldclass OTT services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and Apple TV, and plans to provide unique services by organizing movies and TV programs that are unique to the Philippines,” wrote News Korea, an online news publication in Korea.

The signing ceremony was also attended by Filipino actors, film directors, and broadcasting officials.

AQ Prime has completed principal photography for four full-length feature films: 'Huling Lamay,' a horror film directed by Joven Tan, starring Marlo Mortel, Buboy Villar, and Lou Veloso; 'Z Love' a horror-romance-drama helmed by Jojo Nadela, and led by Devon Seron, Kristof Garcia, Marcus Madrigal, and Rob Sy; as well as the Boys' Love (BL)-themed films ''Sosyal Medya,' with Brenda Mage, DJ Onse, Kristof Garcia, and Mark Aaron Hernandez, under director Greg Colasito; and 'Bingwit,' featuring Krista Miller, Drei Arias, Conan King, and directed by Neal "Buboy" Tan.

Other titles will be revealed on the grand launch of AQ Prime on June 4, 2022. For this investment, SBT targets on investing $2 million in the future along with the initial investment as it continually discovers contents to air on AQ Prime.

“Through SBT’s OTT investment in the Philippines, we want to create a synergistic effect that can be linked to Philippine culture. And our goal is to help make it easier to use OTT services,” said SBT CEO Lee Kwang-rok, who will join the rest of the team on the upcoming launch. This statement is seconded by Atty. Alegre as he believes in the power of OTT. “We want to bring Korean culture in the Philippines' wide landscape of entertainment industry. Moreover, our mission is to also put the Filipino entertainment in everyone’s media.”

For AQ Prime's Chief Operating Officer, Atty. Melanie Honey Quiño, AQ Prime has gained collaborative advantage in order to become more competitive in the business of online streaming. “This partnership is more than just an investment partnership,” Atty. Quiño explained. “It is a collaborative relationship—an agreement to get together and explore streams of opportunities. Our companies shared common goals and visions and we wanted to provide people here and abroad a broad range of entertainment and informative shows.”

The soon-to-be-launched app is expected to be released initially in the Philippines, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Canada, United Arab Emirates, and in the United States. For collaborations and further inquiries, they can be reached via email at support@aqprimestream.com.

Follow their social media accounts on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aqprimestream, Twitter at www.twitter.com/aqprimestream, Instagram at www.instagram.com/aqprimestream, and Tiktok account at www.tiktok.com/@aqprimestream.

About A&Q Entertainment and Prime Stream Inc.

AQ Prime is a streaming company that offers legacy and upcoming movies to Filipino audience in and out of the Philippines. The company will be operating into a paid subscriber basis focusing to target the whole of Philippines and Filipinos living overseas – as an initial target and eventually focusing on other subscribers to expand its subscriber base. The production of original content is one of the major thrusts of the company. This will not be restricted to movies, but also open to other contents that will add value to the product offering including pay-per-view live shows, such as concerts, pageants, sport events, plays, and more.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Services

Barclaycard US and Expert Global Solutions, A New Strategic Partnership

Toto 6:27:00 AM

Two known brands in providing world-class services, Barclaycard US and Expert Global Solution (EGS) have officially announced their strategic partnership and since May the companies have been working together to recruit, train and prepare staff to begin servicing Barclaycard customers. Barclaycard US is the payment business of Barclays in the United States while EGS is a global leader in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry. Kwento Ni Toto shares the story as the two brand names commemorate the launch which was held in Centris Building last August 21. The event was attended by local dignitaries and industry leaders, EGS employees and executives from Barclaycard and EGS.