Unveiling 12 Selected Teams of Local Digital Advertising Start-ups & Emerging Writers
HONG KONG, Jan. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Hong Kong Digital Advertising Start-ups X Publishing (Writers) Promotion Support Scheme (the “Support Scheme”), organized by Hong Kong Association of Interactive Marketing (“HKAIM”), and supported by the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (“CCIDA”) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR Government”) as the lead sponsor, has been nurturing local digital advertising start-ups since its inception in 2018. By providing funding and professional training, the Support Scheme enables these start-ups to design bespoke digital advertising campaigns for local emerging writers, promoting their designated works. The initiative fosters cross-sectoral collaboration between emerging writers, the publishing industry, and the digital advertising industry, creating more opportunities for growth and development.
Guests of Honor took a group photo with the selection committee members, judges, mentors, 12 groups of selected emerging writers and publishers, and representatives of 12 selected local digital advertising start-ups to conclude the Launch Ceremony.
Entering its 7th edition, the Support Scheme received overwhelming response to its call for applications which was closed in late 2024, with 50 digital advertising start-ups and 21 emerging writers. The HKAIM has selected among the applicants and paired up 12 teams, each comprises a digital advertising start-up and an emerging writer. The designated books of applied emerging writers cover a wide range of topics, including education, sports, spirituality, history, music, counseling, science, workplace, comics, picture books, and more. The diversity would stimulate more creativities from the digital advertising start-ups as they plan the related campaigns.
The HKAIM successfully kicked off the 7th Support Scheme with a Launch Ceremony at Seminar Hall, Xiqu Centre on 20 January. Mr. Alex So, Head (Multi-media) of CCIDA, was invited to be the Guest of Honor. Along with him, Chairman of the HKAIM Mr. Francis Fong and Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Publishing Federation Mr. William So launched this year’s Support Scheme by announcing the 12 participating teams. (Full list below)
Each digital advertising start-up will receive a subsidy of up to HK$260,000 to design, plan and execute a digital advertising campaign for the designated book of the matched emerging writer. In addition, the HKAIM will provide training by industry experts, helping them to improve the creative concept and execution of their digital advertising campaigns. The Support Scheme not only creates an opportunity for the digital advertising and publishing industries to collaborate, it also promotes Chinese books through viral digital campaigns and cultivates a more robust reading culture.
In addition, the HKAIM will promote the participating digital advertising startups and emerging writers along with the selected books through a wide range of promotion channels including the Support Scheme’s official website, internet, social media, etc. For the 11 digital advertising projects created under last year’s (the 6th) Support Scheme, the campaigns reached nearly 19.56 million people, with nearly 1.33 million engagements, and almost 7.38 million views, successfully bringing attention to the selected books by the emerging writers, and delivering accurate messages from the books to the target audience, creating more opportunities for readers and emerging writers to interact and communicate. The HKAIM is optimistic that this year’s Support Scheme will achieve similarly stellar results.
The HKAIM will also host a booth at Hong Kong Book Fair 2025 in July to showcase the 12 digital advertising campaigns and the designated books. The Digital Advertising Design (for Publishing) Awards Competition and Presentation Ceremony will also be scheduled to recognize the best digital advertising campaign among the 12 as determined by industry experts. The “My Favourite Digital Advertising (for Publishing) Award” based on public voting, will also be presented at the ceremony. The Presentation Ceremony will highlight digital advertising campaigns as well as recognize the efforts of the participating teams.
The HKAIM will post regular updates about the Support Scheme and the 12 teams on our official website and Facebook page. For more details about the Support Scheme, please visit:
Official website: www.digiad.hk
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AdxPub
Instagram page: www.instagram.com/adxpub_hk
Organizer: The Hong Kong Association of Interactive Marketing
Lead Sponsor: The Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organisers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.
The 12 selected pairs of digital advertising start-ups and emerging writers for the 7th Support Scheme are listed in alphabetical order (according to Start-up) as follows: |
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Local Digital Advertising Start-up (ENG) |
Local Digital Advertising Start-up (CHI) |
Publisher |
Local New and Emerging Writers (English Name) |
Designated Book (Chinese Title) |
Designated Book (English Title, if any) |
|
1 |
At This Moment |
n/a |
Breakthrough Limited |
Wing Yuek Ching |
鐡人1.5 |
One Half |
2 |
FROM THE TOP PRODUCTION LIMITED |
優本製作有限公司 |
Boaz International Education Institute Limited |
Chan Cheuk Ki Twiggy, Shum Yin Wah |
我不是笨笨 |
n/a |
3 |
Gain Tune International Limited |
德通國際有限公司 |
SYRT Academy Company Limited |
Yu Wing Kong, Steve |
招募之RD |
Recruit to RD |
4 |
Hungerr Universe Limited |
哼嘎制作有限公司 |
Ming’s Readers Publisher |
Lai Wai Hang, Li Lo |
MBTI人際探險——不同性格類型一起生活,要如何相處? |
n/a |
5 |
Kangaroll Creative |
n/a |
HKEJ Publishing Limited |
Cheung Ching Fung |
港人防災必修科 |
n/a |
6 |
Moisland |
無島 |
City University of Hong Kong Press |
Lin Ka Chun |
被遺忘的香港管樂史 |
The Forgotten History of Wind Bands in Hong Kong |
7 |
Nine Nine Digital |
n/a |
Sun Ya Publications (HK) Limited |
Leung Tim |
未來科學拯救隊3:碧月薄荷大謎團 |
Future Science Rescue Team (3): The Great Mystery of Green Lunar Mint |
8 |
PI Consultancy & Training Company Limited |
n/a |
Enrich Publishing Limited |
Miss Heart |
校園療心室2——自主情緒‧實現真我 |
n/a |
9 |
Ripple Vision |
漣漪映畫 |
Quire Limited |
Cheung Yu Ting (Ar Yu) |
靈魂中轉站 |
SOULTOPIA |
10 |
Storeroom No.9 |
玖號士多房 |
Lokrazy Plus Design |
Kwan Wai Lok (Nalok.lok) |
可以給我/你一次機會嗎? |
One Chance? One Chance. |
11 |
Studio120 |
120工作室 |
Chinese Christian Literature Council Ltd |
Cheung Ka Yan |
神在野——香港山野靈思之旅 |
God in the wild: Awakening Spirituality in the nature of Hong Kong |
12 |
Tinysotiny.co Limited |
n/a |
Cosmos Books Limited |
Tsang, Mo-suet Musette Faye |
的的撐撐開飯啦 |
n/a |