The Search Is Over! Glam Asia Names Asia's Top Glam Bloggers

Online, March 30, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Glam Asia (www.glamasia.com), a publication of the world's second largest social media company, announces today the winners of the Asia's Top Glam Bloggers contest, a never-before region-wide bloggers' competition aimed towards finding Asia's very own fashion/beauty/lifestyle blogging stars from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Thailand.

We'd like to congratulate the two top winners - aka Asia's Top Glam Bloggers - Geneva Vanderzeil, author of A Pair & A Spare (http://apair-andaspare.blogspot.com) and Divia Harilela of The D'Vine (www.the-dvine.com) from Hong Kong, as well as first runner-up Xiaohan Shen from Australia, who's behind XSSAT (www.xssatstreetfashion.com/), second runner-up Renee Lorentzen of Beauty Fool (www.beautyfool.com) from Singapore, and last but not least, the indisputable "Fan Favourite" Laureen Uy from The Philippines, who raked in a staggering 2,375 votes from Glam Asia fans for her blog, Break My Style (www.breakmystyle.com).

The winners, who will be announced today, will receive prizes worth as much as S$6,800, thanks to official sponsors including luxury resorts Indigo Pearl, Angsana Laguna and Westin Siray Bay in Phuket, international lifestyle luxury brand Club 21, and local shoe designer Charlene Lee (Refer to the list of prizes here). They will also get to work with Glam Asia as partner bloggers or contributors in the coming months, presenting them with a unique opportunity to speak to a wide audience of as many as 250 million via the global Glam Media network.

Due to overwhelming response from fashion, beauty and/or lifestyle bloggers from all over Asia, Glam Asia has decided to award not one, but two grand prizes to the bloggers who top the judges' scoreboard with the most original and engaging content, writing/blogging style as well as the most outstanding overall look and personality of their blogs. These are followed by first-and second runners-up and a special "Fan Favourite" prize, which goes out to the blogger who garnered the most votes from Glam Asia fans.

The competition, held from 1 February to 30 March, 2012, was organised in conjunction with local fashion social network, Clozette.co. Glam Asia has also partnered up with renowned bloggers from around the region - namely Sonia Eryka from Indonesia (A Diary Of The Riotous Belle), Joyce Kristen Wong from Malaysia (Kinky Blue Fairy), Tricia Gosingtian (Tricia Will Go Places) and Viona Wang (VW) from Singapore, as well as local fashion designer Ginette Chittick - who were on the judging panel alongside Glam Asia editor Karman Tse to select the winning bloggers.

Once again, here are our five Asia's Top Glam Bloggers:

Grand Prize Winners
Geneva Vanderzeil, A Pair & A Spare, Hong Kong
A 3D2N For 2 at Indigo Pearl Phuket

Divia Harilela, The D'vine, Hong Kong
A 4D3N Stay for 2 at Angsana Laguna Phuket

Fan Favourite
Laureen Uy, Break My style, Philippines
A 3D2N Stay for 2 at Westin Siray Bay Phuket

1st Runner Up
Xiaohan Shen, XSSAT, Australia
1 Issey Mikae Bilbao Rock Bag from Club 21

2nd Runner Up
Renee Lorentzen, Beauty Fool, Singapore
A Pair of Charleen Lee Heels or Flats of Choice

Interviews with the winners and/or judges can be arranged upon request.

Media Contact:
ANDEE DE GUZMAN (MS)
Marketing Manager, Glam Asia
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Tel: +65 6636 8318 (ext115)

ABOUT GLAM MEDIA

Glam Media, based in Brisbane, California, is the second largest social media company in the world with more than 250 million monthly unique users, and over 100,000 publishers and content creators worldwide.

Glam Media is the pioneer of vertical media that connects the world's top brand advertisers with targeted vertical audiences online. It invented the first commercial blog network in 2005 to harness the power of Social Media for brands. Since then, it has grown to reach more than 250 million unique visitors globally, and is No 1 for lifestyle content, No 1 for women-focused content and is a Top 10 US Web Property. Glam Media has more than 4,000 premium content creators organised across multiple vertical categories online including Glam.com for Women, Glam Entertainment for Adults, Brash.com for Men and Bliss.com for health and wellness seekers.

Glam Media has headquarters in Silicon Valley, New York, and London, with offices in Brisbane in California, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Pune and Mumbai. Glam Media's investors include Information Capital, Accel, DFJ, Walden Ventures, Hubert Burda Media, GLG, and Aeris.