Ah Long Limited: Meet Fann Wong, Mark Lee & Our Very Own Daniel Tan!
Ah Long Pte Ltd 《è€å¸ˆå«è€å¤§ã€‹ is a light-hearted black comedy about the triad world and the money-lending business. Wang Li Hua (played by Fann Wong) is a tough girl, and the succcessor of her triad’s money lending business. With the help of some professional consultants, Li Hua and several of her subordinates (played by KK and Daniel Tan) start adopting a series of creative tactics to attract money lenders and practice hilarious methods to pressure the money-lenders to repay in a non-violent way. Mr. Fang (played by Mark Lee) is a kind-hearted dance instructor who is slightly sissy in character.
Fate has it that Mr. Fang runs into Li Hua on numerous occasions by chance. Since Li Hua’s mother has been pressuring her to get married, Li Hua decides to force Mr. Fang to marry her…Surprisingly, Mr. Fang agrees to it, wanting to prove his masculinity, though he finds it hard to accept the fact that she is a triad head…read more on the official website, here!
Advertlets is happy to present the opportunity for our bloggers to attend a special press screening, as well as 10 specially selected ones to attend the press conference to meet the stars in person! Just comment on this post or e-mail us at to be considered for passes!. This is open to our Malaysian Advertlets members, and any Singaporean members who can make it here as well.
PS: We are aware that the press screening is rather early in the morning, and most people may not be able to make it. However, we are looking into the possibility of arranging a special screening on a weekend for Advertlets Bloggers! Especially since Daniel Tan is a member of the Advertlets Team as well 
a) Ah Long Pte Ltd Press Screening
Date / Day : 3 March / Mon
Time : 10:30AM
Venue : GSC MidValley
Hall : 10
Limit : Until the cinema is full
b) The Stars will be in KL, Come meet them!! ( Jack Neo, Fann Wong,Daniel Tan, Mark Lee, Richard Low, KK, Jack Lim! )
Ah Long Pte Ltd Press Conference
Date / Day : 4 March / Tue
Time : 2:00PM
Venue : Bintang 1 & 2, JW Marriot
Limit : 10 Bloggers
See you there! Hurry up and comment or e-mail us to confirm a spot!
Meet Mr Tan & Mr Tan, new additions to Advertlets!
I mentioned earlier that two of my good friends and business partners will be joining us to play an important role in Advertlets expansion. They are no other than my “brothers from other mothers”, Daniel Tan, & Simon Tan!. Daniel will be playing a greater role in assisting us with marketing and publicity, and Simon will be assisting in design, project management & security. They will be posting up their introductions later this week, on this blog.
We all look forward to meeting our valued and rockin’ Advertlets bloggers at the Vantage Point screening tomorrow (Tuesday, 9PM GSC 1U.) Bloggers who have won the tickets will be contacted by today with details, and we will have a few surprise special guests joining us too. See you soon!
PS: Check out Daniel Tan’s blog if you’re wondering why he’s wearing that thing on his leg. You can also leave comments to bug Simon to start his own blog as well.
PS: If you have not received a reply yet on your application for Advertlets Titan membership, please give us 2-3 days. In the past few days, we have received hundreds of applications, and we aim to be able to process them all within this week. Thanks for the overwhelming response!
Special Vantage Point Screening for Advertlets Bloggers!
You may have seen the Advertlets ads and seen the trailers already. Vantage Point is a big new movie headed your way!
The synop: In Columbia Pictures’ Vantage Point, Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist video-taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is
Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It’s only as we follow each person’s perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the
terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.
It opens in Malaysian cinemas on 21st February. But you can watch it before anyone else does! Here’s how:
Vantage Point Blog Contest (Open to Advertlets Malaysia bloggers)
The first 20 bloggers to write about the online contest (please see requirements) will win a pair of Vantage Point tickets, to attend a Special Screening on 19th February at GSC 1 Utama.
Requirements
- Mention about the “Break The Code” contest at http://www.vantagepoint.com.my, and that those who participate in the contest will get chance to win exclusive Sony Products and limited edition Vantage Point premiums!
- Make sure to include a link to http://www.vantagepoint.com.my and http://www.advertlets.com
- Blogger must be a currently active member of Advertlets, serving Advertlets ads.
Special Screening Date
Movie: Vantage Point
Date: 19th February 2008 (Night)
Location: GSC 1 Utama
Time: 9.00pm
No of tickets: 50 pieces
Tickets: 10 already reserved for our exclusive bloggers (Advertlets Titans), 40 up for grabs! (2 tickets each for 20 bloggers)
Please note: (This movie is only opened in US on 22 Feb, and there will be security check before entering. Please do not utilize recording devices while inside the cinema)
Special Note, Please Read if You Enjoy Eating Food:
Me and partners in Advertlets are also looking at the possibility of buying you dinner before the movie, since the movie is at 9PM
Participants in the contest are encouraged to let us know if they will be free at 7PM on that same day for dinner in a as yet
undecided restaurant in 1 Utama.
PS: In case you’re wondering…Matthew Fox (“Jack” from “Lost”), Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland), Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow), William Hurt (A History Of Violence) & Sigourney Weaver (Aliens).
Advertlets Rocks On! Exclusive Program, Regional Ad Campaigns & 2.0!
Today is a lovely day, in more days than one, and it gives me great pleasure to announce three things.
1. The true measure of a blog advertising network lies not only in membership, but the level in which they can monetize their publisher’s inventory. As of such, we have taken the lead – Advertlets is now officially the first Asian-grown blog ad network to run regional ads. This is a big step for us, and a very significant service offering for our publishers and advertisers.
A regional ad campaign for recruitment portal Recruit.net, is now running in the following countries: Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Australia & New Zealand. This is the first of many more regional campaigns to come. The campaign is now running on all our blogs with traffic from those regions, with a daily priority for blogs that exclusively serve Advertlets ads. More on exclusivity later in this post.
Although our membership is currently open to Malaysia and Singapore bloggers, blog readers are international – and, we have a significant amount of visits from all around the region. Thanks to the diversity and strength of the Advertlets network, we can now not only sell targeted campaigns for Malaysia & Singapore, but also for the rest of our traffic. To give you an idea of how big the extended network of Advertlets is now – we reach a total of more than 150,000 unique users a day for Malaysia, 60,000 unique users a day for Singapore…and surprise, 35,000 unique users a day for China alone. Amazing, isn’t it?
2. And, exclusivity. We have been representing ad sales for a select number of blogs exclusively for a while now, including blogs which get more than 15,000 unique visitors a day to those that get slightly above 100. What these blogs have in common though, is that they have quality, compelling content, loyal visitors and great ad placements. The value that we can offer is better monetization of their ad inventory. Our salesmanship and confirmed media bookings have now ensured that we can offer consistent ads, higher CPM rates, and larger campaigns. We now have ads confirmed for the next 3 months in advance, and we would love for you to be part of an exclusive group that will allow you to have less clutter on your blog, and better earnings.
We are now happy to open up this program to more of our bloggers to enjoy a better blog advertising experience, and are happy to announce the Advertlets Titan program. Over the next few days, we will be revealing more about the program.
3. And of course, we have gotten good feedback on our limited beta test, and are happy to announce that Advertlets 2.0 will launch on the 9th of March 2008 (our first anniversary), together with some exciting new features, including referrals, social features and earning charts. Over the next few days, our lead programmer will be talking more about the new features as well as taking your feedback on design, improvements and functions.
Actually, one more.
4. Lastly, this one means the most to me in terms of significance. One of the greatest achievements and treasures that I have in the past few years is: having found two people that I can trust as friends, and work with as business partners. Most people will tell you that combination is practically impossible to find. As we all previously had our own ventures, I personally have mostly been responsible for the day-to-day management of Advertlets, with my partners offering support to a limited extent due to their schedules. However, given that the scale of our operations is growing, they will be coming in full time and play a more important role in Advertlets operations. More on them will be announced in their own official posts to this blog!
This is the start of many other successes to come, and we look forward to sharing more good news with you in the next few days! Thank you again, for making us what we are today. We will continue to kick ass and serve ads, and put the b.l.i.n.g in b.l.o.g.g.i.n.g!
Advertlets: Gearing up for some big things tonight…
Happy Valentine’s Day! We hope most of you have plans tonight. Anyway, yesterday we asked 3 questions to our bloggers, as part of a mini-contest. Tonight the first 8 who got the answers correct will win, and some big things will be announced.
The answers to those 3 questions will be revealed tonight, together with some big announcements. This will definitely be exciting news for all Advertlets publishers, and represents a very significant development in the future of Advertlets in the Asian blog advertising market.
Also: A few of you have expressed concerns regarding increased loading time of Advertlets ads as of late. The short answer is that we’re serving more ads, and hence, need to upgrade our capacity further.
Some of our users might already be aware that Advertlets is currently advertising in a few other countries other than Malaysia & Singapore. Most of the countries are in the Asian region. (Yes, you’re earning from international traffic now, more details soon!)
However, for some strange, strange, reason, a lot of people are searching for “Hong Kong celebrities” these few days. There has been a ridiculous spike in traffic from visitors from the Asian blogosphere, for a reason that we did not forsee (and one that Edison Chen knows very well…).
While increased traffic is cool, it does puts a significant bandwidth load on our servers, and we are taking steps to accelerate our planned upgrades. As of last week we upgraded our bandwidth for Singapore, and it looks like we will have to make more bandwidth upgrades for Asian traffic sooner than we thought.
Ad loading time will be improved over this weekend as we modify our database structure and make upgrades. Stay tuned later tonight for a few big announcements. Or you could always check us out after you come back from your date tonight. Love ya!
First 8 to answer these Advertlets related questions correctly get RM88!
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Had a good Lunar New Year so far?
Since its a good time of the month to be generous, here are a few questions: The first 8 to answer all 3 questions correctly, will get RM88 credited into their Advertlets accounts!
Disclaimer: One entry per member. Open to Malaysian & Singaporean registered & active members of Advertlets, currently serving Advertlets ads. Contest closes at 11:59 pm (Malaysian Time) on February 13th 2008. Comments and trackbacks to this post may be moderated (especially if they are answers to these questions). Bloggers who have talked personally to Advertlets Team members over the past few days and have been informed of this items are not eligible to participate.
How to enter: Post the answers to these questions on your blog, with a link to this blog post! This way, the proof that you were one of the first 8 to answer (if you are) will be in the timestamps.
1. Advertlets has a new ad campaign for a new client that will run in multiple countries. Guess how many countries will it be running in?
2. February 14 is a significant date. As I am single this year, what will me and the Advertlets team most likely be spending the next few late nights working on, and announcing/launching on Feb 14? Hint: Most relationships are based on one person and how many parties?
3. When was Advertlets founded, and what will we most likely launch on our first anniversary?
Have fun, and be quick! You have 20 hours & 41 minutes from the time this post was created!
Update: Everyone seems to be getting Question #3 wrong, so just a hint (you can amend before the day is over). It’s not in February, and the answer is out there…That’s all I’ll say for now…
Advertlets+Faces November 2007 & CJ7+Advertlets Contest (Malaysia) Winners!
The results are in! Now, presenting, the winners of the Advertlets+Faces Contest for November 2007 as well as the CJ7+Advertlets (Malaysia) winners!
Travel Competition Winner: Naomi Tham
1 x All expense paid trip for two to Pulau Pangkor for a weekend beach party with 8 of Malaysia’s hippest DJ’s including DJ Jungle Jerry (As the beach party has been postphoned indefinitely, so we have to award her the consolation prize instead)
1 x RM100 travel discount vouchers
1 x Robyn’s latest album, Robyn
1 x Kanye’s latest album, Graduation
1 x will.i.am’s latest album, Songs About Girls
1 x Click Five latest album, Modern Minds & Pastimes
1 x Soundtrack and movie passes to Saarwariya
Fashion Competition Winner: Cherrie Heng
1 x RM100 RAM Hair Design Salon cash vouchers
1 x Amanda Brown designer denim jeans and denim skirt
1 x Bobbi Brown lipstick in red
Consolation Prize Winner: Niki Dulu
1 x T-shirt and cap set of newly arrived Masked Rider merchandise + a mystery gift worth RM150
1 x Robyn’s latest album, Robyn
1 x Kanye’s latest album, Graduation
1 x will.i.am’s latest album, Songs About Girls
1 x Click Five latest album, Modern Minds & Pastimes
1 x Limited Edition Stardust merchandise + Stardust book by Neil Gaiman
CJ7+Advertlets Contest Winners (Malaysia)
CJ7 Premiere Winner – Shaun
CJ7 Press Conference Winner – Maike
Congratulations to tohumness, callieoon,cokelatrawkz, pixyflick, ahkong, aprilcherrie & shernshiou! You have all won special CJ7 merchandise prizes!
Thanks again to all for participating. To Malaysians: Remember, the are more Faces+Advertlets Contests available each month!. To Singaporeans: Remember, the CJ7 Pinball Challenge closes 7th February 2008!
