UAE’s Yalla wins Gold accolade at MENA Stevie Awards 2022

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By Amirtha P S, Desk Reporter
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UAE-based leading voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform, Yalla Group Limited’s most popular social gaming app, Yalla Ludo has won the Gold Award for Innovation in Entertainment Apps at the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards 2022. 

Yalla Ludo was honored for its unique platform that integrates a superior gaming experience with real-time voice chats in a comfortable, living room-style atmosphere, a social networking innovation that has swept the Middle East.

Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Saifi Ismail, President of Yalla Group, commented, “Yalla Group strives to exceed users’ expectations with innovative features and services tailored to the MENA region, and this award is a powerful commendation of our efforts to ensure a premium user experience. Yalla is proud to drive innovation and advance MENA’s digital development. We will spare no effort to harness all of our capabilities and resources as we work to become the No. 1 platform for social networking and online entertainment in the region.”

The Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards is the only business awards program to recognize innovation in the workplace in 17 nations in the MENA region. The Stevie Awards are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs like The International Business Awards for 20 years.

Currently, there are eight distinct Stevie Awards competitions, which receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in over 70 nations and are judged by more than 1,000 executives.

Yalla Ludo is one of Yalla’s most prominently mobile apps, featuring online versions of MENA’s favorite board games, Ludo and Domino. Through close attention to detail and a localized appeal that deeply resonates with users, Yalla’s mobile applications deliver a seamless user experience that fosters a loyal sense of belonging, creating a highly devoted and engaged user community.

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Yalla Group Limited is the leading voice-centric social networking and entertainment platform in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA). The company’s flagship mobile application, Yalla, is specifically tailored for the people and local cultures of the region and primarily features Yalla rooms, a mirrored online version of the majlis or cafes where people spend their leisure time in casual chats.

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