Sabbir, Sabnam, Salman promoting BD Express

UCWeb, an Alibaba mobile business group, has launched a campaign programme for its news in-app BD Express.

The campaign showcases popular cricketer Sabbir Rahman, actress Sabnam Faria and YouTuber Salman Muqtadir as promoters.

Earlier, UCWeb announced the BD Express as the first data driven news aggregation platform for Bangladeshi users and it serves ads-free customised news.

Besides contributing to the BD Express, the trio are participating in an online competition hosted by UC Browser where their fans can vote for their favourite news, represented by Sabbir, Sabnam and Salman.

The voting will end on 5 September.

The celebrity, who will win the contest, is expected to engage in a Facebook Live video with the fans where they will talk about their personal success stories.

General manager (global markets) of the Alibaba Mobile Business, Kenny Ye, said, “As part of our commitment to set the bar higher, we have partnered with three key opinion leaders of industries in Bangladesh. We believe our partnership with Sabbir, Sabnam and Salman will demonstrate our efforts to provide quality content to our users.”

Talking about BD Express, Sabbir said, “It is very user friendly and gives timely sports updates. I can see live scores from here."
Representing the entertainment section of BD Express, Sabnam, said, "It's a fantastic thing. I get all stories from BD Express."
Sharing his role as promoter of the BD Express breaking news section, Salman said, “We, young people, are curious about the outside world and eager to receive latest news.”

“BD Express will be able to fulfil this need via UC Browser push notifications by promptly updating its users about the most important things they need to know,” he added.

Users can participate in the voting by going to this link http://bit.ly/VoteforBD.

The results of the competition will be announced on 5 September.