South Asian Digital Media Awards

SDMA Previous Winners

2022

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the winners of the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2022, the sixth edition of digital media awards for South Asia. These prestigious awards recognise the outstanding digital media projects delivered by news publishers from across the region. An eminent panel of international judges evaluated the entries.

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2021

The 2021 edition of the awards received 141 entries, close the double the number than the previous edition. The winners were presented virtually at Digital Media India 2022 Conference on 9 March. The Hindu Group and HT Media Ltd. won the coveted ‘Champion Publishers of the year 2021’ award. Click here to view the winner list.

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2020

The results of South Asia’s most prestigious competition, South Asian Digital Media Awards 2020, recognizing outstanding work done by news publishers in digital media is announced. The awards are presented in ten different categories including Best Website, Data Visualisation, Audience Engagement, Lifestyle, Sports, Entertainment Website / Mobile Services, Marketing Campaign for News Brand, Native Advertising / Branded Content, Paid Content Strategy, News Literacy and COVID-19 Projects.The winners will be presented trophies and honoured virtually at Digital Media India 2021 Conference on 2-4 March. Click here to view the winners list.

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2019

The fourth edition of the WAN-IFRA’s South Asian Digital Media Awards saw more than 80 entries from over 20 companies, which were evaluated by an international jury comprising of high ranked professionals from the media industry. Manoramaonline.com wins Best News Website of the Year Award. BBC News, The Wire, NDTV Hop, Arre, Sangbad Pratidin, Prothom Alo, and The Hindu are among winners of the Awards 2019.

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2018

Trophies were awarded to the winners of South Asian Digital Media Awards 2018 during the WAN-IFRA India 2018 annual conference,26-27 September in Hyderabad. The awards jointly presented by Google and WAN-IFRA recognises best practice innovation in digital publishing worldwide.

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2017

Trophies were awarded to the winners of South Asian Digital Media Awards 2017 during the WAN-IFRA India 2017 annual conference,12-14 September in Chennai. The awards jointly presented by Google and WAN-IFRA recognises best practice innovation in digital publishing worldwide. The awards are presented in every region – South Asia, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America. The winners from each region subsequently compete for the World Digital Media Awards.

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2016

Some of South Asia’s leading news media companies, Manoramaonline.com, The Quint and NDTV Convergence were among the winners of the awards, jointly presented by WAN-IFRA and Google. Nearly 400 delegates from more than 20 countries are attended the conference, which was took place in Kolkata, India, on 21-22 September.

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Contact

Vijayalakshmi Murali

Manager - Business Development and Operations

vijayalakshmi.murali@wan-ifra.org

Chennai, India