{"id":43687,"date":"2017-04-18T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/?p=43687"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:24:25","slug":"scenes-influence-asia-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/lifestyle\/arts-entertainment\/scenes-influence-asia-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scenes: Influence Asia 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 8 April 2017, the top social media influencers across seven countries gathered to celebrate Influence Asia 2017<\/a>, Asia\u2019s largest social media awards show. Organised by influencer marketing and media company Gushcloud, and hosted by Korean digital marketing group, Yello Digital Marketing (YDM), the awards show was held on 8th April 2017 at the Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Winners for the awards show were decided through closed door silent peer-to-peer voting by the Top 4 nominees of each category; Food, Health and Fitness, Beauty, Lifestyle, Fashion, Parenting, YouTube Channel, YouTube Personality and Breakout Influencer.<\/p>\n

Meet the Malaysian winners for these categories!<\/p>\n

Winner of Breakout Influencer Award: Luqman Podolski<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Influencer of the Year: Jinnyboy<\/h4>\n

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Winner of YouTube Personality Award & YouTube Channel Award: JinnyboyTV<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Top Food Influencer Award: Eunice Martin<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Top Fashion Influencer Award: Emma Shazleen Ali<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Top Health & Fitness Influencer Award: Joanna Soh<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Top Beauty Influencer Award: Chanwon<\/h4>\n

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Winner of Top Lifestyle Influencer Award: Cupcake Aisyah<\/h4>\n

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A total of 252 social media influencers participated in the event, a significant increase compared to the 180 social media influencers in 2015. Vietnam and South Korea were added to the list of participating countries, making it seven countries in total, including; Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. In addition, seven top influencers (the top from each country) were crowned \u2018Influencer of the Year\u2019.<\/p>\n

As a special award for the influencers of the host country, Malaysia, the Influencers\u2019 Choice Awards were also given out to three winners based on voting done by only Malaysia-based influencers who attended the show.<\/p>\n

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(From left) Winners of the Influencers Choice Awards: Dennis Yin, Jin Lim and Reuben Kang from JinnyboyTV, and Dan Khoo from Dan Khoo Productions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe theme for Influence Asia 2017 is \u201cFor The Future\u201d, with the brand promise as \u201cCreating Tomorrow\u2019s Positive Influence\u201d. The future generations of today and tomorrow read and watch a lot of the content Influencers create. We want our nominees to appreciate and recognise this huge responsibility that they hold over future generations. Influence Asia serves as a platform to uphold standards and celebrate individual and group efforts in creating strong and positive content for the future,\u201d said Althea Lim, Executive Producer of Influence Asia 2017.<\/p>\n

Influence Asia 2017 also featured Korean pop star Jessica Jung as the headline act for the awards show.<\/p>\n

\"InfluenceOther performing acts included Malaysia\u2019s homegrown talent, pop trio De Fam; Project E.A.R, a collaborative band of different acts from five different countries in South East Asia; Singaporean rapper, Kevin Lester, dubbed The Lion City Boy; top Indonesian singer-songwriter Tulus and Vietnamese pop singer and a current judge on The Voice Vietnam, Noo Phuoc Thinh.<\/p>\n\r\n