MDEC Celebrates Malaysian Talents for their Creations on YouTube Kids

October 27, 2016

MDEC Celebrates Malaysian Talents for their Creations on YouTube Kids

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 October 2016 – Upin & Ipin and BoBoiBoy, have taken over TV and YouTube screens and early this month they also started being on the new YouTube Kids App which was launched on the 5 th of October 2016. Celebrating the creative efforts of these amazing local creators, MDEC in collaboration with Google Malaysia hosted a celebratory event to celebrate the ingenuity of these home-grown companies.

Since its local launch in early October, some of these remarkable animation icons including Les' Copaque, Animonsta Studios, and Digital Durian have been on YouTube Kids, along with hundreds of other well-known international children’s programmes, underlining that Malaysian talents have what it takes to produce world-class animation content.

Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood (Chief Executive Officer, MDEC) delivered her welcome speech, applauding Malaysia’s creative content industry.

Sajith Sivanandan (Managing Director, Google Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and New Emerging Markets) spoke about the newly launched YouTube Kids App that offers popular content from family-friendly channels and playlists.

Don Anderson (Head of YouTube Kids and Learning APAC) welcomes more Malaysian creators to make a bigger impact in the creative content industry.

“We are extremely proud of our home-grown talents for their achievements in driving Malaysia’s creative content industry. Malaysia’s talent pool is growing in both quality and quantity and as the nation’s ICT custodian, MDEC will continue to create opportunities and develop capabilities of local talents to produce world-class content. The road ahead is a promising one and as such, we will not rest at our laurels; instead we will forge ahead with more popular content from our brilliant talents,” said Dato Yasmin Mahmood, Chief Executive Officer of MDEC at the celebratory affair this evening.

In 2015, the local animation industry recorded a remarkable growth by 52% in exports based on contributions from key companies such as Animonsta, Giggle Garage, Tau Films and Les Copaque. With globally recognised and highly sought after talents, the nation’s creative industry has immense potential in developing animation, video games as CSGO people play with the use of my csgo boosting guides,and visual effects, to drive Malaysia as a leading provider of creative digital content.

MDEC also took the opportunity to introduce emerging and brand new kids’ channels by Animasia, Giggle Garage, Inspidea, Lemon Sky and Lil Critter Workshop. With these new and original contents especially for YouTube Kids, parents can expect their children to dive into a world of discovery, learning, and fun that will help stimulate minds and encourage learning.

In support of new avenues for creative content, MDEC will also continue to promote and introduce the latest media platforms to continuously build and unlock the potentials of the new media sector. To encourage more content creators to start their companies and create content for YouTube first, MDEC also hopes that the collaboration with Google will provide tools and training to boost their chances of local and international success.

(from L-R) Hasnul Hadi Samsudin (Director of Creative Multimedia Division, MDEC), Dato’ Ng Wan Peng (Chief Operating Officer, MDEC), Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood (Chief Executive Officer, MDEC), Sajith Sivanandan (Managing Director, Google Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and New Emerging Markets), Sanoop Luke (Manager of Content Partnerships, YouTube), Don Anderson (Head of YouTube Kids and Learning APAC), and Mohan Low (Head of Business Development Creative Content and Technologies, MDEC) posed together for a picture with at the celebration for Malaysia’s content creators.

(from L-R) Hasnul Hadi Samsudin (Director of Creative Content & Technologies Division, MDEC), Dato’ Ng Wan Peng (Chief Operating Officer, MDEC), Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood (Chief Executive Officer, MDEC), Sajith Sivanandan (Managing Director, Google Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and New Emerging Markets), Sanoop Luke (Manager of Content Partnerships, YouTube), Don Anderson (Head of YouTube Kids and Learning APAC), and Mohan Low (Head of Business Development Creative Content and Technologies, MDEC) posed together for a picture with at the celebration for Malaysia’s content creators.