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Gua.com.my (GUA), Malaysia’s entertainment and lifestyle-based portal was officially launched on September 11, 2007. GUA derived its name from a local slang – gua which means ‘me’. GUA in the Malay language also means cave. And caves are always an adventure to explore.At GUA, information-hungry Malaysians will be kept abreast with the latest news on local and international gossip and entertainment, food, travel, fashion, health and beauty, love and relationship, music and video downloads. The portal is packed with exclusive, unique and compelling contents that everyone, whether young or old, is bound to find something of interest within the website.
On 23 October 2007, GUA proudly launched the history-making Kerana Karina, Malaysia’s first online drama. The 4-minute, 20-episode drama’s achievement looks set to be cemented in the Malaysia Book of Records. Its debut saw GUA’s hits skyrocketing steadily each day and the online drama has garnered a strong following, thanks to its stellar cast and an appealing storyline.
GUA will be launching its highly anticpated music portal in February 2008 and with the music portal on board, GUA looks set to seal its position as the unrivalled entertainment portal in the country.
Aiming to be the biggest entertainment and lifestyle portal with the best Malaysian content, GUA achieved 1.04 million hits within its first month. As a testament to GUA’s growing popularity, to date GUA receives an average of 1.6m hits a week!
With LimelightNetworks (an established content delivery network which provides services to the likes of YouTube and the Disney Channel); XM Malaysia (Malaysia’s leading content management and web developer) and ENTRIQ (digital rights management experts) on board, GUA is set to make waves by changing the direction of the current media consumption.
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