Bigo Live Annual Awards honour 37 of India’s best-performing live streamers
Bigo Live Annual Awards honour 37 of India’s best-performing live streamers
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The Bigo Live Annual
Awards 2018 felicitated live-streaming hosts and agencies which performed
exceptionally well on the BIGO LIVE platform last year
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Hridaan and Shelly emerged winners in the category of
most popular male and female singers, respectively, while Pinki was declared
the best dancer on the BIgo Live platform. Sandhya won the Bigo Popular Choice
2018 Award
GURUGRAM / January 19, 2019: Some of India's most popular live-streamers,
including singers, dancers, hosts and lip-syncing artists, emerged winners at the 2018 edition of Bigo LIVE Annual Awards. As many as 37 winners were announced
in nine categories from among thousands of participants. Chinese brands Honor
and Layuva were the sponsors of the Awards, while corporates like Baidu and
Draphant also attended the ceremony.
The Bigo Live Awards recognized and felicitated
live-streaming hosts and talent management agencies which performed
exceptionally well on the BIGO LIVE platform last year. Hridaan and Shelly
emerged winners in the category of most popular male and female singers,
respectively, while Pinki with 1.39
million followers was declared the best dancer on the BIgo Live platform.
The award for best male new host was won by Hassan Ali while Ashka emerged the best female new host. Hazel won the Bigo Walk of Fame (Nice Voice), while Keshav and Nivi got the award for the best male and female talk show,
respectively. Other winners included Pari
Gumber (Bigo Walk of Fame: Popularity), Kiaah (Bigo Walk of Fame: Beauties) and Aliza (Bigo Walk of Fame: Cash Cow).
Akanksha Parhad won the award for the best lip
sync, while Sameer and RG Rajput were declared the best male
and female hosts, respectively. Sandhya
won the Bigo Popular Choice 2018 Award, and Sangeeta Vishnoi – who represented India in Paralympics -- bagged
the Bigo Inspiration of the Year Award. Tahazud
Khan bagged the award for Top Agency. All these performers have lakhs of
followers on the Bigo Live platform.
The winners were selected from among
millions of Bigo Live users through online contests and polls both on social
media and in-app. The categories included BIGO LIVE hosts and talent agencies; BIGO
Walk of Game; BIGO Walk of fame; top performing agency; debutante agency; social
media sensation, etc. The winners got certificates, trophies, merchandise and
cash prizes.
Talking about the awards, Nagesh Banga, Marketing Head, Bigo LIVE India,
said: “We are extremely delighted and proud to acknowledge the BIGO LIVE community
and honour the top performing hosts and talent management agencies which did exceptionally
well on our platform in 2018. Since its launch in 2017, Bigo LIVE has got over
60 million strong user base in India with over 10,000 hosts. In less than two
years, Bigo has emerged as not only the top live-streaming app in India, but
also the highest revenue generating app.”
The BIGO LIVE Awards, which were
instituted last year, have already become very popular among the Indian
live-streaming community. Nagesh Banga
added: “Bigo LIVE enables users to interact and socialise with each other, showcase
their talent globally and earn money. We are extremely proud of the thousands of success
stories that have emerged in India from people using the BIGO LIVE platform.
Many of our hosts have made it big and become an Internet sensation, with huge follower base, full-time career opportunity and huge monthly
earnings. A few of them are earning as much as Rs 10 Lakh to Rs 15 Lakh per
month!”
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