Sri Lankan Magazine Culture spins off on getakik.lk

Local web junkies can now see the light of a full-fledged entertainment web magazine in its own right – www.getakik.lk – a unique website in its sensibility, pedigree, and purpose, and positioned to serve the culturally-literate, tech-savvy consumer.

With the online entertainment interactive space in a state of intense high, getakik.lk seeks to claim a space currently occupied by no one else online, recognising a demand from both consumers and advertisers for a national entertainment site for smart, passionate fans — enabling community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.

The developers call the new site a turning point, which will redefine the link as “a social entertainment destination for Gen Y,” generally considered to include people born 13 to 35 years ago. The beta version of the new site went live today, and new users will have immediate access to the site which will include gossip to movies and everything in between.

In addition to its bold design, getakik.lk launches with more daily content, vibrant graphics, a better integration of its critics, and a slew of new features. Among those debuting with the launch are Obsessive Guides — hubs for fans, featuring a mix of reader conversation, regular news updates, and deep dives into the minutiae of TV shows, movies, and personalities. The launch will feature fan pages for today’s most popular stories, with hundreds more to follow in the next few months. For the first time in Sri Lanka, getakik.lk will incorporate a full-fledged review section, featuring weekly extra online-only reviews and commentary on movies, TV, theater, music, art and books along with mix critic recommendations (from best plays to best viral videos) with different pages allocated for Movies, Top of the Pops, User Blogs, Entertainment News, Colombo Hot Spots and many more user generated content.

Visitors are now invited to become members of the kik portal. They will be given a user name and a password upon registration which will give them access to restricted member areas such as video and picture uploads and comment modules. Providing ways for consumers to be entertained on any screen anywhere, getakik.lk’s plan is to develop the site into a complete central source for the world of entertainment in the months to come.