MUMBAI:
Helo, India’s leading social media platform, recently announced its partnership with South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) as its official social media partner, giving Helo users access to live updates from the awards ceremony,which will be held on 15 and 16th August in Qatar, Doha.
Helo continues to partner with the region’s biggest entertainment properties to bring Helo users closer to their favourite stars by sharing event highlights, exciting live moments from the red carpet and exclusive backstage content in 14 Indian languages. As part of the partnership, SIIMA has introduced a special award category ‘Helo Most Popular Celebrity’ for which the voting will be held exclusively on Helo to shortlist the most popular celebrity across 4 languages including Tamil, Telugu Kannada and Malayalam. The winning celebrity will be selected based on the maximum number of votes on Helo, and will be presented with the award at SIIMA’s Awards ceremony.
“Helo was launched to bridge the information gap for the first-time internet users across major Indian languages and to give a platform to the users to discover and consume content in the languages of their choice. Through our partnership with SIIMA, celebrities become more accessible as Helo users will get a chance to access exclusive content in real-time and connect and vote for their favourite stars through the app,” said Chhandita Nambiar, Head of Entertainment Business Development for Helo.
SIIMA is a revered and most viewed South Indian Film Awards Show. It promises to be an event that movie buffs across the world watch with great enthusiasm. After creating a stir in the entertainment industry and holding its previous editions in Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore and Sharjah, SIIMA is back with a bang and this time it will be holding its 8th edition in Qatar, Doha.
Helo is currently available in 14 Indian regional languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and more. Kannada is one of the more popular languages on the app which enables users to make new friends, share jokes, tweets, memes, WhatsApp status updates, wishes, quotes, shayari and stay informed with the latest trending news and views of the day. Follow SIIMA on Helo to get the latest updates!
Helo’s machine learning-powered visual platform is specifically designed for Indian mobile users who prefer to communicate in their mother tongues. It enables users to create quality content with easy-to-use tools, make new friends, share latest and top trending jokes, memes, status updates, wishes, quotes, shayari and Bollywood news. The app currently has 50 million users, including celebrities, influencers and general users. For more updates, download Helo via iOS or Google Play.
