Category: The Media Blog

The Media Blog: TheCable is on the hunt for new audiences

TheCable is one of our favourite news platforms – the writing has flair, the sensibility is fresh, and they understand the concept of the-news-behind-the-news as an important concept for news…

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The Media Blog: Someone says this is the difference between new and old media

How Punch reported the news on Linda Ikeji's new office - rumored total sum, 106million. How the NET reported the same 'exclusive'. We won't take eet.   PS: See anything…

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The Media Blog: Let’s explain to you how EXACTLY Linda Ikeji makes her millions

So now that the news is everywhere, especially in places where the media gossips, that Linda Ikeji has finally gone nuclear and launched everything in every available space, with multi-million…

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Linda Ikeji's mansion is worth over N500million | YNaija.com

The Media Blog: So Linda Ikeji is finally going nuclear (all of you can now allow her rest)

For years, everyone has been taking panadol for Linda Ikeji’s headache. Why isn’t she creative? Why isn’t she on her own URL? Why is her blog UI, UX and U-anything…

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The Media Blog: The hate some people have for Linda Ikeji is on iMax

So here was the headline on a news story on BellaNaija. And this was comment a human being put below this story - just because. Bitterness that can cook soup.…

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The Media Blog: What Biola Alabi did next – already has a Season II

You know Biola Alabi of course. She is the former managing director of MNet responsible for hits from the Africa Magic channel explosion (including, of course, the Yoruba channel) to…

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The Media Blog: Financial TV? Arese Ugwu is all over that

Arese Ugwu is a money blogger (sounds suspiciously like 'money doubler') and building a personal financial platform (Smart Money Africa) targeted at young people – especially young women. And this…

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The Media Blog: Stop the world. Arianna Huffington is out of the Huffington Post

So we know this is not Nigerian news – and we are about Nigerian and West African media insights, but this is major. This is like the Queen of England…

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Top 12 Countdown, Loose Talk are the most listened to podcasts in Nigeria – and they both have less than 5k at their highest

The Loose Talk podcast has one too many cusswords. In which case of course, its hosts will say ‘yeah that’s deliberate – that’s the kind of show’. To which we…

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The Media Blog: The Online TV Wars – GTBank vs UBA vs Access Bank (and Diamond Bank is struggling nearby)

Accelerate TV (owned by Access Bank) is, uhm, accelerating. Sure, its bank-as-media-owner strategy is inspired (to put it gently) by Ndani TV (owned by GTBank). But it’s not taking that…

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The Media Blog: Guardian TV gets branded content deal with Zenith Bank – but why?

Guardian TV has taken the lead in terms of branded digital TV content in the space – launching a brand new finance series called ‘Your Life, Your Money’, hosted by…

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The Media Blog: Oreka finally finds her way

Oreka Godis is one of the most talented media talents you will find in the country. But you wouldn’t know it if you weren’t a media insider. And that’s because…

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The Media Blog: EbonyLife TV has finally figured out it needs to do what it needs to do

Whom we love, we chastise. The bible says something like that. So let it be known that TMB (that’s The Media Blog) is a fan of EbonyLife TV. Stop thinking…

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The Media Blog: PartyJollof vs Zikoko: Tracker, Episode 1

So if you pay attention to the underground ‘submarine channel’ of online media, you will know that there is a silent war between entertainment magazines Zikoko and PartyJollof (disclosure: our…

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The Media Blog: Beat FM’s ‘The Handover’ comes to a smartphone screen near you

The Beat 99.9 should be worried. Urban 98.6 has fully taken its space (we will talk about The Legend of Tajudeen Adepetun who owns that network alongside 8 TV stations…

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The Media Blog: TNC is (possibly) finally ready to wear big boy pants

If you’re a part of what they call the mass market, then TNC (TheNakedConvos.com) isn’t something you will neither care about. Which is the plan. But if you’re part of…

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Bankole Oluwafemi, Kola Aina, Honey Ogundeyi… Look who else made the #YNaijaPowerList for Technology

As the annual #YNaijaPowerList enters its 5th year, we bring you the 10 most influential young Nigerians under 40 navigating the arcane and increasingly complex world of technology. Our list runs…

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