mig33 awarded the Online Inspiration Award for 2009!

mig33 is fast becoming one of the biggest and best communities on phone and web, anywhere in the world. mig33’s success stems from the passionate users, great community, and great features available on mobile and the web.

Based on this success, mig33 has just been awarded the Online Inspiration Award for 2009! Kiki Rizki (cessamermaid), our very own mig33 community representative in Indonesia was there to receive the award at a ceremony hosted by Indosat, on behalf of the whole mig33 team and community.

In winning, mig33 was recognized for being the most widely used social mobile application in Indonesia and also for mig33’s contributions in enabling new and different ways for people across Indonesia to connect with each other

During an interview, Kiki noted, “Today the mig33 community in Indonesia is over 11 million registered users. People have taken to the new games in their millions, and we have an exciting roadmap of future services in 2010“.

About mig33

mig33 is the world’s largest mobile-first community, providing communications and entertainment services for more than 30 million members and their mobile devices worldwide.  With mig33, members in more than 200 countries engage in vibrant chat communities, instant messaging, email, photo sharing, virtual gifting, profile building and sharing, and more.  The service is available worldwide, optimized for more than 2,000 handsets.  In mid 2009, mig33 partnered with Indonesia’s largest mobile retailer, PT Trikomsel Oke, to begin offering mig33 payment vouchers in OKE’s more than 800 retail outlets.  Founded in 2005, mig33 is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM. For more information, please visit www.mig33.com.

mig33, the world’s largest mobile-first community, today announced exceptional growth of – and activity within – its global community and the release of several new features designed to strengthen its position as the fastest-growing mobile Social Entertainment Service (SES) in emerging markets.

mig33’s worldwide community has now grown to more than 30 million registered users as it continues to add almost 1 million new users per month.  Additionally, its messaging volume grew dramatically, with the service now delivering more than 500 million messages per day.

The growth comes parallel to mig33’s release of several new features designed to push those growth rates even higher as the company broadens its SES offerings and expands its thriving virtual economy.

“mig33 remains single-minded in its strategy, which is to provide emerging, mobile-first markets with social entertainment options and, in turn, continue to grow a vibrant virtual economy,” said Steven Goh, CEO and co-founder, mig33.  ”Rather than seeking a single ’silver bullet’ in features, we understand that success lies in providing lots of different options that, together, provide the best possible mobile social experience.”

The latest features — just out of beta — include wall creation and commenting, voting, and updated profile pages that display, among other things, virtual gifts exchanged.  The new features are available on over 2,000 handsets that mig33 currently supports.  The company plans on releasing additional new mobile SES features in coming weeks.

mig33, previously based in the heart of Silicon Valley, relocated to Singapore less than two months ago.  The set-up of its engineering centre was supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), under its iCentre Programme.  With the support of iCentre, mig33 plans to expand its presence in Singapore and regionally by growing the virtual economy through developing social entertainment with more social games and applications and developing on other platforms, including Android, iPhone and Facebook, for wider consumer reach.

“Through its iCentre programme, IDA provides developmental support for start-ups like mig33 to establish new engineering centres in Singapore. We believe that activities from start-ups like mig33 will increase the diversity of entrepreneurs and engineering talents in Singapore. This is part of IDA’s longer term vision of developing Singapore as an innovation hub for entrepreneurial activities by VC-backed start-ups,” said Mr Andrew Khaw, Senior Director, Industry Development Group, IDA.

“mig33’s ultimate goal is to become the Tencent QQ for the rest of the world and, as such, we believe Singapore’s IDA support is a solid investment for both Singapore and mig33,” said Goh.

About mig33

mig33 is the world’s largest mobile-first community, providing communications and entertainment services for more than 30 million members and their mobile devices worldwide.  With mig33, members in more than 200 countries engage in vibrant chat communities, instant messaging, email, photo sharing, virtual gifting, profile building and sharing, and more.  The service is available worldwide, optimized for more than 2,000 handsets.  In mid 2009, mig33 partnered with Indonesia’s largest mobile retailer, PT Trikomsel Oke, to begin offering mig33 payment vouchers in OKE’s more than 800 retail outlets.  Founded in 2005, mig33 is backed by Silicon Valley venture firms Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and DCM. For more information, please visit www.mig33.com.

WIN a brand new NOKIA 5370 each week until 7 Feb, plus a US$1,000 Sweepstakes Grand Prize up for grabs too from mig33!

mig33 has just ushered in the New Year and along with it comes some great news for mig33 members. The mig33 US$1,000 sweepstake is back, with the addition of weekly back-to-back prizes for the next 4 weeks.

For those of you itching to get a new phone this year take this great opportunity as one of you will stand the chance to win a brand new Nokia 5730 Xpress Music drawn each week!

To enter, simply refer a new friend to mig33 to qualify as one entry.
You have until Sunday to enter, and a winner is drawn each Tuesday.

All entries during this time will qualify for the US$1,000 sweepstakes, drawn 7 Feb to end the competition. This is a chance not to be missed!

So get ready and gear up for this exciting month. You could be one of mig33’s lucky winners of a brand new phone, or the beaming winner of mig33’s sweepstakes cash prize!

Terms and Conditions

• Competition only open to all mig33 members with a registered and authenticated mobile number.
• Competition period is open from 11 January 2010 (GMT) to 7 February 2010 (GMT)
• For every new referral the mig33 user successfully refers and activates to mig33 during the promotion, they qualify as one entry for the various draws, across the specified time periods. There is no limit to the number of entries permitted.
• There are a series of four weekly prizes, plus one big prize are the details are outlined below:

o Draw 1 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 11 Jan – Sunday 17 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 12 Jan 2010 GMT

o Draw 2 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 18 Jan – Sunday 24 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 GMT

o Draw 3 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 25 Jan – Sunday 31 Jan 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 2 Feb 2010 GMT

o Draw 4 – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music

Entries from Monday 1 Feb – Sunday 7 Feb 2010, GMT
Drawn Tuesday 9 Feb 2010 GMT

o Big Prize – Nokia 5730 Xpress Music and $1,000 cash!

Entries from Mon 11 Jan – Sun 7 Feb
Drawn Tuesday 9 Feb GMT

• mig33 user must use ‘Invite Friend’ feature on their mobile account, to make the referral.
• Each friend referred must successfully register and activate their account with mig33, to be counted as one friend referred. An activated user is one where the mobile phone number has been authenticated.
• The prizes are not transferable.
• The prizewinners will be announced in the ‘Live Draw’ chat stadium according to the schedule above. The prizewinners will be contacted via their registered mobile number with mig33. The winner will be drawn randomly and the allocation of the prizes is at the sole discretion of mig33. The winner will be communicated within mig33. The winner’s name and details may be used for promotional purposes.
• Competition is not open to mig33 members based in the USA.

Let's welcome 2010 from mig33

As we usher in the New Year, let’s take a minute to look back at the sweet moments that made us smile in the last year

At mig33, the fun activities, warm stories and many special moments shared with us by our community from around the world, have brought us smiles every day.

As the clock ticks over, may the New Year bring each and every one of you much happiness, success and many more new friends!

Next year will definitely be even bigger and better, and we’re excited to be working with our warm and wonderful friends to make the mig33 community all it can be!

Wishing you a Happy New Year, from all of us at mig33!