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Kenya leads Africa on YouTube content creation
Kenya leads Africa on YouTube content creation
PHOTO:R&B singer-songwriter Otile Brown. PHOTO | POOL
 

By:
HILLARY KIMUYU

Posted:
Mar,01-2022 00:05:40
 
Kenya is among the African countries leading with content creation on YouTube with more than 400 channels each boasting 100,000 subscribers.

The number of channels earning over Ksh1 million ($8,783.49) monthly has also improved by 60 percent.

Nigeria and South Africa have 300 channels each boasting of 100,000 subscribers each far behind Kenya’s drive which continues to attract a wide variety of content from cooking, classroom lessons, music, travel, sports among others.

Releasing the statistics during this year’s YouTube Annual Roundtable virtual meeting, YouTube Africa managing director, Mr Alex Okosi said Kenya’s content creation growth also rose at the highest pace year over year at 70 percent.

Speaking when he unveiled a new team to drive the YouTube content creation campaign, Mr Okosi said several initiatives had been launched to help creators in Kenya to improve the quality of content uploaded on YouTube thereby enhancing the creators reach and earning potential.

According to Mr Okosi, Citizen TV, Churchill TV, KTN News, NTV Kenya, K24 TV and R&B singer-songwriter Otile Brown have over one million subscribers each with one channel boasting of having achieved over a billion views.

Source:
The East African