Malaysia is one of the most dynamic digital market in Southeast Asia with a profusion of famous blogs. The following Top 50 blogs from Malaysia was created to gather the most prominent blogs of the Malaysian online community and help everyone find and learn from digital thought-leaders and trendsetters of the region.
One of the advantages of the country is that many Malaysians are very proficient in the use of English, generally helping business in Malaysia. Many blogs from Malaysia are therefore written in English and have reached a global recognition; they are easy to understand for the rest of Southeast Asia as well.
Nevertheless, several blogs in Malay language also have become prominent and gathered a large national audience; these successful blogs in Malay are noted with their language hereafter in the following list to guide through the blogosphere of Malaysia.
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List of the Top 50 blogs from Malaysia
After carefully combing more than 200 blogs using the method detailed below, here are the results of the most influential blogs from Malaysia. Through various themes and industries, they regroup blogs written primarily by a single author with personal opinions on unique or multiple themes, focused on a particular niche or aiming at a massive audience.
Each blog’s main themes have been added to make the list more user-friendly and help you learn about blogs that correspond to your interests… or the product or service you might want these influencers to talk about.
As a final note, the very prominent “blog” has not been integrated in the following list as it has now outgrown both its Malaysian roots, with authors from around the world, and its status of “blog” now also seems to be questionable for such a large media that publishes numerous articles everyday with a massive global audience. Congratulations for such a success.
Note that this post is part of a series on top blogs in Southeast Asia:
1. Paul Tan
Themes: automotive
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 5,700,000 !!!
Total social media community: 741,000
2. Gecko & Fly
Themes: tech – Note: Blogged by Ngan Tenguyen, who also writes the blog Mirage Studio 7 (#21)
Facebook:
Estimated monthly traffic: 1,600,000 !
Total social media community: 4,800
3. Proudduck
Themes: food, lifestyle
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Estimated monthly traffic: 98,300
Total social media community: 1,150,000 !
4. SoyaCincau
Themes: tech
Facebook:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 594,000
Total social media community: 90,300
5. Jane Chuck
Themes: travel, beauty, lifestyle
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Estimated monthly traffic: 23,500
Total social media community: 888,000
6. Bangsar Babe
Themes: food, travel, beauty
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Estimated monthly traffic: 42,400
Total social media community: 582,000
7. Sensasi Selebrity
Themes: entertainment, media – Note: blog written in Malay
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Estimated monthly traffic: 134,200
Total social media community: 316,000
8. My women stuff
Themes: beauty
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 267,700
Total social media community: 13,200
9. Places and Foods
Themes: travel, food
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 167,800
Total social media community: 160,000
10. Cheeserland
Themes: lifestyle, travel, lifestyle
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Estimated monthly traffic: 92,200
Total social media community: 294,000
11. Barely Supermommy
Themes: parenting
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 7,600
Total social media community: 408,000
12. Beautyholics Anonymous
Themes: beauty, lifestyle
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Estimated monthly traffic: 179,000
Total social media community: 9,100
13. Tommy Ooi
Themes: travel
Facebook:
Instagram:
Estimated monthly traffic: 159,400
Total social media community: 24,000
14. I’m a full-time mummy
Themes: parenting
Facebook:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 11,300
Total social media community: 281,000
15. Nisa Kay
Themes: beauty, lifestyle – Note: blog written in Malay
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Estimated monthly traffic: 25,300
Total social media community: 235,000
16. KC Lau
Themes: money, finance
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 122,300
Total social media community: 34,800
17. Four Feet Nine
Themes: beauty, lifestyle, parenting
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Estimated monthly traffic: 53,300
Total social media community: 148,000
18. VKeong
Themes: food
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 94,400
Total social media community: 47,000
19. Ammboi
Themes: news, world, entertainment – Note: blog written in Malay
Facebook:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 92,100
Total social media community: 51,200
20. Eat Drink KL
Themes: food
Facebook:
Instagram:
Estimated monthly traffic: 75,500
Total social media community: 71,000
21. Mirage Studio 7
Themes: design, architecture – Note: Blogged by Ngan Tenguyen, who also writes the blog Gecko & Fly (#2)
Facebook:
Estimated monthly traffic: 101,800
Total social media community: 3,600
22. Rebecca Saw
Themes: food, travel, lifestyle
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 87,900
Total social media community: 20,000
23. Emily’s Anthology
Themes: beauty – Note: Emily is primarily a famous vlogger on Youtube
Youtube:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 23,200
Total social media community: 176,200
24. Karen Kho
Themes: fitness, beauty, travel
Instagram:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 10,600
Total social media community: 154,000
25. Ken Hunts Food
Themes: food
Facebook:
Instagram:
Estimated monthly traffic: 70,800
Total social media community: 32,700
26. Chan Won
Themes: beauty, lifestyle, travel
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 37,600
Total social media community: 97,000
27. Malaysian Flavours
Themes: food
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 74,500
Total social media community: 20,800
28. Tziaaa
Themes: beauty, travel, food
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 6,200
Total social media community: 154,000
29. Malaysian Foodie
Themes: food
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 62,200
Total social media community: 36,000
30. Malaysia Asia
Themes: travel
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 45,300
Total social media community: 61,900
31. Faizal Fredley
Themes: travel – Note: blog written in Malay
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Estimated monthly traffic: 32,800
Total social media community: 74,000
32. Sunshine Kelly
Themes: beauty, lifestyle, travel, food
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Estimated monthly traffic: 41,900
Total social media community: 51,400
33. KY Speaks
Themes: food
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 63,600
Total social media community: 6,700
34. Timothy Tiah
Themes: food, travel
Instagram:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 43,800
Total social media community: 9,800
35. Kampungboy Citygal
Themes: food, travel
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Estimated monthly traffic: 45,900
Total social media community: 40,000
36. Ariff Shah
Themes: finance, travel, lifestyle – Note: blog written in Malay
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Estimated monthly traffic: 46,800
Total social media community: 29,000
37. Motormouth from Ipoh
Themes: food
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Estimated monthly traffic: 25,800
Total social media community: 68,000
38. CC Food Travel
Themes: food, travel
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 6,600
Total social media community: 68,000
39. Small N Hot
Themes: beauty, lifestyle
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 27,000
Total social media community: 48,000
40. Maxmayo
Themes: fashion, lifestyle
Facebook:
Estimated monthly traffic: 46,400
Total social media community: 3,400
41. Always Travelicious
Themes: travel
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 25,900
Total social media community: 43,000
42. Shaolin Tiger
Themes: lifestyle, food, travel
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 43,800
Total social media community: 3,400
43. Bubbly Notes
Themes: beauty, lifestyle – Note: blog written in Malay
Facebook:
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 33,200
Total social media community: 21,000
44. Street Love
Themes: beauty, lifestyle
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 39,300
Total social media community: 4,900
45. Red Mummy
Themes: food, lifestyle – Note: blog written in Malay
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 22,400
Total social media community: 36,100
46. Sabrina Tajudin
Themes: beauty, lifestyle – Note: blog written in Malay
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Estimated monthly traffic: 31,800
Total social media community: 15,900
47. Jessy the KL Chic
Themes: food, lifestyle
Facebook:
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Estimated monthly traffic: 35,000
Total social media community: 7,100
48. Narcissism is Necessary
Themes: food, beauty, travel, parenting
Instagram:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 35,800
Total social media community: 5,200
49. Cik Lily Putih
Themes: beauty, food
Instagram:
Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 29,900
Total social media community: 16,900
50. Mr Jocko
Themes: travel – Note: blog written in Malay
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Twitter:
Estimated monthly traffic: 24,700
Total social media community: 26,000
Top bloggers from Malaysia on Twitter
Here is the complete top 50 blogs from Malaysia. To help you stay informed on their activities, a Twitter list has been created to regroup their Twitter profiles (when available) together with some other top bloggers from Malaysia active on Twitter.
You can check what they are up to and follow the whole list to keep in touch with them all at once. Of course, don’t forget to follow too! 🙂
Malaysia’s top blogs selection criteria
Though the highest ranking blogs and websites in many “top” lists are often legitimate, when a single tool is used to rank these websites the middle and lower ranking ones are often not the most relevant, because of the inherent characteristics of the tool used. That’s why the previous list has been created by carefully selecting the 50 most influential blogs from Malaysia through a combination of well-established tools for digital marketing.
Domain authority and estimated monthly traffic
First, a shortlist of 100 blogs with recent updates was created by screening 200+ of the most prominent blogs in English, Malay and Chinese from Malaysia through MOZ’s Domain Authority and SimilarWeb’s monthly estimated traffic as of May 2017. Only the blogs with high domain authority or estimated traffic were kept.
Total social media community
Then, the social media community on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter of each blog in the shortlist was recorded when they were above 500 followers. These communities were added to create a “total social media community” for each blog and indicate the general popularity of the blog/blogger on social media.
Note that the Youtube followers of Emily Quak (#23) have been added to her community as she is primarily a vlogger on Youtube, with more than 85,000 followers.
Final ranking
Finally by combining SimilarWeb’s estimated monthly traffic (weighed 2) and the total social media community (weighed 1) for each blog, the shortlist was ordered from the most to least influential. The top 50 blogs obtained through these aggregated criteria were finally retained to ensure the most relevant references and measure blogs through their relative influence in one useful list.
What do you think about our top blogs from Malaysia? Was this list useful to you? Did we miss any influential blog? Leave your comments below!
