*Emmanuella’s Mark Angel Comedy, 2 other Nigerians win SSA YouTube Awards*

Emmanuella’s Mark Angel Comedy, 2 other Nigerians win SSA YouTube Awards

Mark Angel Comedy featuring six-year-old Emmanuella

Samuel, Nigeria's Channels Television and IbakaTV/

Nollywood have emerged winners at the inaugural Sub-

Saharan African (SSA) YouTube Awards, an official said on

Sunday.*

According to Ms Susan Wojcicki, the Chief Executive Officer

(CEO) of YouTube, the SSA YouTube Award was Google's

way of celebrating African creators.

‎She said "the YouTube Awards celebrates the talent and

creativity of YouTube community while serving as platform

that shares Africa's creativity with the rest of the world.

"By holding our first-ever YouTube Africa Awards, we hope to

celebrate incredible achievements like Olympic medalist

Julius Yego show, while also demonstrating our long-term

commitment to the continent," Wojcicki said.

She said YouTube Awards were handed out to 25 creators

across 23 categories and nominees were chosen based on

subscriber numbers.

She added that users had to have a minimum of 50,000

subscribers to qualify and must be based and currently

residing in one of eight launched countries in SSA.

The YouTube boss said that the top non-broadcaster

channels were picked from each launched country, describing

a launched country as one in which monetisation had been

enabled as it was not enabled in all countries globally.

Wojcicki listed the eight launched countries in SSA as

Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya,

Nigeria, and Senegal, adding that over 70 channels from

launched SSA countries had reached over 100,000

subscribers.

Mr Teju Ajani of YouTube Partnerships, SSA, said YouTube

was about people having opportunities to express

themselves.

He said "creators across Africa are using YouTube to find

their voice, connect with audiences around the world and

build channels while earning revenue from it.

"The number of hours of video content being uploaded in

Africa has doubled in the past two years and the audience

has grown with it.

"Watch time on mobile phones is growing 120 per cent year

over year," he said.

He added that creators like Hakima Raymond who taught

himself to conduct an orchestra using YouTube videos had

gained international fame on the show "An African City."

Ajani said that the show, which recently hit international

headlines for its portrayal of women in Accra, Ghana, was an

example of the talent that reside in Africa and was now

reaching the world through YouTube.

He listed the YouTube content creators to include Nigeria's

Mark Angel Comedy which features six-year-old Emmanuella

Samuel, Nigeria's Channels Television, South African vlogger

Suzelle DIY and South African music channel, Yellow Brick

Cinema.

The full list of winners are Broadcaster; Channels Television,

Comedy; Kansiime Anne, Comic; Ramscomics/Supastrikas,

Education – Retutpro – Photography and Photoshop

Tutorials, Entertainment – NdaniTV, Fitness; Six Pack

Factory, Games; Slushy AJ.

Others are Makeup and Fashion; Kangai Mwiti, Music; Yellow

Brick Cinema, News and politics; Millard Ayo, Nonprofit; Jim

Nduruchi, People and Blogs; Suzelle DIY, Pets and animals;

Earth Touch.

For Top Subscribed Creator category in Uganda was

Kansiime Anne; Ghana; OfficialSarkodie, Kenya; Churchill

Show, Nigeria; Mark Angel Comedy, Senegal; Prince Arts,

South Africa; Yellow Brick Cinema, Tanzania;

DiamondPlatnumz.

Other top Subscribed Creators are in Zimbabwe; Mufti Menk

and Top Subscribed Nollywood Channel; IbakaTV/Nollywood.

Ajani said that for special mention, Yellow Brick Cinema

which recently reached one million subscribers, was awarded

a YouTube Gold Play Button in recognition of the

achievement.*

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