Pattaya One & Thaivisa.Com Join Forces!

[george]

Pattaya One & Thaivisa.com join forces!

24th September 2010

Pattaya’s newest publication, Pattaya One, has signed a joint-venture agreement with ThaiVisa.com who will provide online access to Pattaya One’s content, in a downloadable PDF file containing electronic versions of the newspaper, from October 1st.

From that date, there will be a dedicated Pattaya One subforum of the Thai Visa website, hosting an electronic version of each edition of Pattaya One, which will be made available online to Thai Visa’s members, for reading and comment.

The partnership will help to forge better communications and generate more interest on Pattaya-related issues for the greater benefit and entertainment of the expat community.

“Our association with ThaiVisa.com is an important development for us as a new publication, and for our advertisers, and we are delighted to be working with ThaiVisa.com as the leading community/social networking English-language website in Thailand,” says Howard Miller from Pattaya One.

“We are also very excited about this venture,” says Barry Main, marketing director of ThaiVisa.com. This extends the user base for us, and we see synergy effects and marketing possibilities working with a local news and content organisation. With this growth in the user base we hope to increase the variety of content and reach a wider section of the community”.

The forum is located at http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/forum/157-pattayaone/

Featuring the best columnists and writers in Pattaya and Bangkok, Pattaya One is the latest addition to Pattaya One News’s growing media presence. It will represent a dynamic addition to the print media market in Pattaya.

ThaiVisa.com owns Asia’s largest expatriate-oriented community website, with over 100,000 registered members. Launched in 2002, the ThaiVisa Expat Forum today boasts more than 35,000 unique visitors per day and serves more than four and half million pages per month. In addition to its very active forum, ThaiVisa also operates hotel booking services, insurance services and online classified ads.

ThaiVisa.com has similar news and content arrangements in place with The Nation, AFP and Phuket Gazette.

Howard Miller

Pattaya One

www.pattayaone.net

Mr. Barry Main,

Marketing Director, Thai Visa

www.thaivisa.com

[george]

THE NATION:

New Pattaya paper signs pact with ThaiVisa

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/09/23/business/ThaiVisa-com-and-Pattaya-One-sign-joint-venture-de-30138599.html

ThaiVisa.com and Pattaya One sign joint-venture deal for content and marketing

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/09/24/national/New-Pattaya-paper-signs-pact-with-ThaiVisa-30138630.html

[angiud]

The logo of the new Pattaya One newspaper dangerously recall those of some English tabloid papers.

[chuckd]

Good move, George and Howard. :jap:

I look forward to reading your site.

[sharecropper]

The logo of the new Pattaya One newspaper dangerously recall those of some English tabloid papers.

This one perchance?

[Boater]

does this mean there wont be quotes from pattaya daily news

[Farma]

A step in the right direction. Do we still get to see all the insensitive gory photos like we did before?

Will the standard of journalism improve. The latest overstay story has serious implications for some people and should at least appear credible.

However quotes like these

handing over the wedge

the correct amount of folding stuff

suggests the information contained in the article was overheard in a pub.

[Rimmer]

does this mean there wont be quotes from pattaya daily news

Everyday Breaking news will still be posted from our regular sources

[PattayaOneTeam]

A step in the right direction. Do we still get to see all the insensitive gory photos like we did before?

Will the standard of journalism improve. The latest overstay story has serious implications for some people and should at least appear credible.

However quotes like these

handing over the wedge

the correct amount of folding stuff

suggests the information contained in the article was overheard in a pub.

Hi Farma,

Knowing the people who cobbled it together, it might have been.

However the real reason it is written so colloquially, is that we are writing it in our house style, and we weren't prepared to change it.

It will make more sense if and when you see the rest of the paper, but we take your point in the context of a formal (and so far surprisingly well-read) press article in Thai Visa!

If others want to pick up on our stories and investigate and report more formally, we are only too happy for them to do so, leaving us to better-focus on the more entertaining aspects of life in Pattaya City.

(Un?)fortunately given space requirements and last minute advertisers, we couldn't put half the content we wanted in the first edition, but we are very confident what we do have will not disappoint.

However there is not much news content, as we take the view that it is well covered by all the other papers, and Thai Visa, and other Pattaya websites and news outlets.

When space allows we will be doing some crime reporting, but more in the nature of commentary and updates where this is possible.

We sincerely hope you will check us out.

Best wishes,

Pattaya One.

[angiud]

Hope we'll have some hot cover this style?

[hm1973]

The Pattaya One logo is so much better.

@Farma, I will not be contributing towards the content of the paper, you will be relieved to know!

[PattayaOneTeam]

Hi Farma,

Your comment that the writing style:

" ...suggests the information contained in the article was overheard in a pub."

knowing who wrote it, you may be right.

However, the article was written in our house style, and we weren't prepared to change it. We aren't a "newspaper" as such, and certainly not a serious one, but we are happy for other publications to take our stories and to write them more seriously, as we focus on entertaining our readers and primarily reflecting life in Pattaya.

Although we agree it may look a bit odd put up as a (surprisingly popular) Thai Visa news item, if you read the paper, you will see it in context.

We hope our readers will enjoy the paper as much as we have enjoyed compiling it. We are lucky to have the best writers and columnists in Thailand writing for us.

Best wishes,

Pattaya One Team

[Changian]

We aren't a "newspaper" as such, and certainly not a serious one,

So, more of the same then for Pattaya.

[TCW]

We aren't a "newspaper" as such, and certainly not a serious one,

So, more of the same then for Pattaya.

Don't let "Big Broadsheet" Noyes hear you saying that.