Philippine Asian News Today Vol 18 No 20 | Page 35

October 16 - 31, 2016

PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY

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KATHNIEL SWEEPS PUSH AWARDS ANEW
Kapamilya loveteam Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla
once again proved their power
and influence in digital media as
they dominated the Push Awards
2016 held recently at Dolphy
Theater, where celebrities with
the biggest online influence online were honored by ABS-CBN
entertainment site PUSH.com.
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Like in last year’s ceremony, the “Barcelona” stars
brought home all the awards as
a tandem: the Push Elite Tandem
of the Year awarded to them by
a distinguished panel of judges,
and the fan-voted Digital Media
Awards, namely the Push Like
Tandem, Push Tweet Tandem,
Push Gram Tandem, and Push
Play Tandem awards.
They also got the most
number of votes in categories.
Kathryn won the Push Tweet Female Celebrity and Push Gram
Female Celebrity awards, while
Daniel nabbed the Push Tweet
Male Celebrity award.
Singer Yeng Constantino
was also among the major winners as she was hailed the Push
Elite Female Celebrity, Push Like

Female Celebrity, Push Tweet
Music Artist, and Push Play Female Celebrity. Darren Espanto,
meanwhile, was named the Push
Elite Music Artist, Push Like Male
Celebrity, Push Like Music Artist, and received the Awesome
Popular Song Cover award for “I
Believe.”
The Unkabogable star Vice
Ganda also shone as he won
the Push Gram Male Celebrity,
Push Play Male Celebrity, Push
Elite Male Celebrity awards, and
received the Awesome Popular
Movie Performance for “Beauty
and the Bestie.”
Teen star Ylona Garcia also
proved that her time has come
as she was named the Push
Elite Newcomer, Push Gram
Newcomer, and Push Play Newcomer.
Meanwhile, LizQuen fans
were given the Push Ultimate
Fan award for posting the most
number of tweets during the voting period.
All the winners in the
Digital Media Awards and Awesome Awards categories were
determined by online votes and
validated by third-party auditing

group SGV & Co.
The Push Elite Awards,
meanwhile, were selected from
all the winners in the Digital Media Awards by a distinguished
panel composed of ABS-CBN
chief digital officer Donald Lim,
Head of Cinema One Ronald Arguelles, bloggers Albert Abelido
and Flowell Galindez, Tempo

entertainment editor Nestor Cuartero, TV and film director Mae
Cruz-Alviar, doctor, lawyer and
professor Mr. Joey Montemayor,
and director Cathy Garcia-Molina.
PUSH Awards is the firstever award giving body in the
Philippines that recognizes the
influence of celebrities that have

made a mark in the online world
in the previous year based on
their online reach and influence,
popular votes, and excellence. It
honors celebrities re