YouTube has unveiled a series of initiatives to celebrate World Jollof Day. Since 2015, World Jollof Day has been observed on August 22 to spotlight Jollof rice, a popular cuisine among west Africans, also offered in other regions of the world. Cook-offs between top creators in Nigeria will be organised and premiered on YouTube. Popular […]
Joy Obakeye YouTube has recently revealed the names of African creators who have been selected to join a global cohort of 135 from around the world, in its flagship #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund initiative. The fund focuses on investing in Black creators from around the world who are telling fresh and authentic stories. While the group […]
American online video-sharing platform, YouTube on Wednesday, announced that content creators in Nigeria and other parts of the world on its platform will begin to pay U.S. taxes on the earnings they generate from viewers in the U.S. The Google-owned company sent an email to creators that the new tax deduction will take effect from […]
Different YouTube creators like portraying their content in different ways. While some prefer sharing their experiences through audio, some prefer the video route. Well, those who do not feel comfortable being in front of the camera can also share engaging content on the platform and become successful. Matt Par, a successful YouTuber, started his journey […]
YouTube is finally enabling HDR support on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles. The HDR support works across existing Xbox One devices and new consoles like the Xbox Series X and Series S. As long as you have a TV or monitor capable of displaying HDR videos, the YouTube app will now automatically switch to output HDR content. […]
Lagos – YouTube on Thursday released YouTube Rewind, to celebrate the biggest moments and trending videos on YouTube in 2019. Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communication Officer and Public Affairs Manager for Google West Africa, said in Lagos that the top trending videos in Nigeria for 2019 reflected the nation’s love of sports and entertainment. Kola-Ogunlade said […]
Nneka Nwogwugwu As a result of the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, triggered by controversial legislation to extradite those convicted of crimes to mainland China and Taiwan, Google has shut down 210 channels from one of its platform, YouTube, because of uploaded contents related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Google’s Director of Security […]
Ladesope Ladelokun Sequel to the addition of Huawei to President Donald Trump’s administration’s “entity list”, which bans the company from acquiring technology from firms in the U.S. without the approval of the government, the second biggest smartphone maker has been barred by Google from updates to the Android operating system. Google has, however, defended its […]
Mutiat Alli YouTube, on March 26 2019, launched its Spotlight Story documentary on Nigerian Afro-fusion singer and songwriter Burna Boy. Having catapulted to fame with the 2012 release of his single “Like to Party”, Burna Boy has become one of the leading musical voices on the African continent and an international YouTube sensation. The 18-minute […]
More and more talent continues to emerge on the African continent as a 19 year old from the University of Ghana has developed a new video search engine that could rival Google and YouTube. The student has developed Mudclo.com (www.Mudclo.com), a website that has been described as almost matching Google’s YouTube. The metasearch engine allows […]
The current generation of kids are amazingly precocious.Their wide-eyed curiosity and seemingly insatiable desire to constantly learn new things means that, your child is probably active on social media at an early age. According to the Research and Development Unit of Yudala, an online and offline e-commerce outfit, while there are actually age requirements for […]
Turkey has blocked access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after the sites published photos last week of a prosecutor who had been taken hostage with a gun to his head, Turkish local media, Hurriyet reported on Monday. An official confirmed to itslocal pressthat the country’s leading Internet service providers had implemented the ban on the […]