The Media Blog

The Media Blog: Huffington Post KILLS it with this headline

We are loving it so hard, we want to marry it. On the matter of Leaker-In-Chief, Donald J Trump, prattling about his country’s secrets to their arch-enemies from Russia and the hypocritical silence from those like House Speaker Paul Ryan, who wanted to lunch Hillary Clinton over having an absolutely legal private server, they serve... Read More

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[The Media Blog] This is EXACTLY how not to spend N614,000

What has this world even come to? An ad in today's ThisDay. Are you people really ok? pic.twitter.com/ub0mvzYhlb — tyro (@DoubleEph) May 2, 2017 This is a full-page, coloured ad in a daily newspaper in Nigeria. Someone really paid for this??? Let’s provide a little bit of context. The story is that an ad placement... Read More

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The Media Blog: The first episode of King Women with Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett is immense

Immense simply in terms of how much weight is packed behind every single word Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett, the subject of the first episode, utters. Kemi Adetiba’s interview series couldn’t have picked a better person to kick off its run – and we suspect everyone involved knows this too, as Ajayi-Lycett has all but become the unofficial... Read More

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February 27, 2017

Reading material: Here’s what you should be reading if you work in media content (15)

1. PR for everybody? https://revolutionmessaging.com/news/democratizing-public-relations 2. First Instagram Stories, now WhatsApp gets in on the game too. Is this the end of Snapchat? http://www.recode.net/2017/2/20/14663674/whatsapp-rolling-out-version-snapchat-instagram-stories 3. Or have rumours of Snapchat’s demise been just a little bit exaggerated? http://pulse.ng/bi/finance/snaps-ipo-is-oversubscribed-by-7-billion-id6278943.html 4. The American elections prove that the power of a message will never die. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/data-driven-campaigns-democrats-need-message-214759 5. Just how effective are those... Read More

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February 23, 2017

The Media Blog: A webseries in French? Red TV continues to intrigue us

It’s called Boutique Hotel, and appears to have been made in Côte d’Ivoire. It stars Ivorians, and it’s entirely in French. It’s subtitled in English, of course, but that’s beside the point. It’s not what we expected from Red TV (or any Nigerian content platform, really) to be honest. But maybe that’s the point. Maybe... Read More

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February 20, 2017

The Media Blog: Which one is Media Room Hub again?

Azuka Ogujuiba, the person behind that Tiwa Savage interview has come again with a new one. It’s something called Media Room Hub. It’s supposed to be an online magazine. The name confuses us. Is it a hub for a room? Or a room for a hub? Is it possible to be both? Anyway sha, here’s the cover for... Read More

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February 20, 2017

Reading Material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (14)

1. What does law enforcement owe the media? http://www.businessinsider.com/gamergate-fbi-file-2017-2?r=UK&IR=T 2. Is there one simple idea needed to understand Trump supporters? https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.64nvrrogl 3. This content business comes with consequences. http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right 4. Not even Kellyanne Conway can handle the 24 hour news cycle. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/the-downfall-of-kellyanne-conway.html 5. They say Zuckerberg wants to end journalism. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/the-mark-zuckerberg-manifesto-is-a-blueprint-for-destroying-journalism/517113/ Have a great week!

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February 18, 2017

The Media Blog: They should just take this ‘The Shade Corner’ back wherever they brought it from

It seemed like a curious concept. It piqued our interests at least. But after 2 underwhelming episodes, we’re not really sure we’re interested in seeing more of The Shade Corner. We can’t make any claims to know what the point of Accelerate TV is. Is it just an avenue for access bank to burn excess cash? Is... Read More

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February 18, 2017

The Media Blog: Even the mighty fall sometimes

Great picture, eh? Beautiful couple. As long as you don’t look too closely. Turns out, even when you are as big as Genevieve Magazine, mistakes will still happen.

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February 13, 2017

The Media Blog: Genevieve Magazine is not your mate

Sure, that’s a great cover. Eku Edewor is stunning as ever, and we could choose to focus on that. Or we could choose to focus on the weirdness of the fact the baby is carried almost like an accessory in the photo. But we’re much more interested in that headline on the left side of... Read More

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January 30, 2017

StarTimes has entered the football craze full blast

The crave for quality football content in the country is absolutely off the hook. Week in, week out, millions of youth are glued to TV screens watching football games. The passion and commitment with which they visit viewing centres is humongous. The viewership is alarming and any smart business owner with a sense of direction... Read More

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January 30, 2017

We hope you’re taking note of the Chinese Super League. You should actually

The rave of the moment in the footballing world is currently the Chinese Super League (CSL). The League currently has the highest paid footballer in the world – Carlos Tevez. Tevez joined Shanghai Shenhua from Boca Juniors in a deal worth £615,000 per week on a two-year contract. The League also poses other high profile... Read More

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January 30, 2017

StarTimes is simply defying all odds

In this time of recession, many subscribers to digital television are looking for any and every opportunity to save money. Many PAY TV providers have developed a habit of increasing their subscription fees while delivery poor service. We have undergone a careful look at the digital television space and we noticed that StarTimes has defied... Read More

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January 27, 2017

The Media Blog: Navel gazing about the media’s low approval ratings is nonsense

Whenever the media in America does anything that someone somewhere doesn’t like, the response is now predictable: X and X is why the media has such low approval ratings. Now, that is in fact… a fact. Only 32 percent of Americans have any kind of trust in the media, according to Gallup. This appears to... Read More

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January 26, 2017

The Media Blog: Let’s talk about media and ‘The forbidden experiment’

Legend has it that King James IV once stretched, yawned and thought to himself ‘hm – what language would babies speak if they didn’t have any humans to learn language from?’ And – because he is a king, duh – he was able to hijack a few babies and place them in the care of... Read More

The Media Blog, Thinking Through

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January 11, 2017

The Media Blog: Did Buzzfeed finally cross a line?

Buzzfeed published an ‘unverified memo’ about Trump and Russia – and all hell has broken loose across America’s media (and on Trump’s timeline, of course, but that is no longer news). Should Buzzfeed have published what amounted to a rumour, even though it made clear the news was unsubstantiated? Shouldn’t Buzzfeed have published, considering American... Read More

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January 11, 2017

The Media Blog: Abeg, Bola Tinubu should go and find several seats

Every now and again, people – including questionable characters who have not satisfactorily answered corruption allegations – mount a bully pulpit to accuse ‘the social media’ (a ridiculous term that speaks to a type or illiteracy) of being the cause of all the problems in the world. It is an easy target, because with hundreds... Read More

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December 31, 2016

The Media Blog: Mania Magazine returns

We probably shouldn’t call it a return, seeing as they never officially “left” or went anywhere to begin with. But like we said before, their appearances now are fairly unpredictable, as they’ve quietly switched to a release schedule that’s fully known by only them, so it’s a thing of note whenever they come out to... Read More

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December 29, 2016

The Media Blog: The fall of NaijaGistLive has been spectacular to behold

Who would have thought? A news story on a major canadian network about a Nigerian gossip blog? But, it happened. We watched. With caution. Same way we did when we heard the ‘co-founder‘ of the site in question, NaijaGistLive had been captured, after which, before we knew what happened, the infamous Matharoo sisters had been roped... Read More

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December 29, 2016

The Media Blog: We’re curious about this Buzzfeed video

It might be nothing. And lord knows we fuss over things that turn out to be nothing sometimes, but we can’t say this buzzfeed video didn’t make us think. The past few years have taught us (and anyone paying attention, really) that Buzzfeed is nothing if not incredibly strategic. And as such, we find ourselves... Read More

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December 29, 2016

The Media Blog: Big Brother Naija has us cautiously optimistic

No, we don’t have any inside info. We haven’t seen or heard anything in particular to suggest that this won’t be a complete waste of time. But something tells us that this will be a good season. We know there’s no shower hour this year, which, to be honest, we’re thankful for, because we can’t... Read More

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December 27, 2016

The Media Blog: RED TV might have its first hit on its hands

We’ll be honest. We had reservations about RED TV’s new reality/travel show, ‘Here and Now: The Adventures of TASA.’ But clearly, we either didn’t know what we were saying, or it didn’t matter at all, because it’s turning out to be the platform’s biggest hit thus far. Sure, there’s been a concerted marketing push for... Read More

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December 23, 2016

The Media Blog: Mazino on Men’s Corner is not bad at all

We think EbonyLife TV is onto a good show here. Sure, some of the topics are a bit inane, and some of the contributors on the confessional segments come off incredibly vapid, but we think it’s all very well done. Its success in our eyes is largely due to the 3 hosts and their chemistry. From the... Read More

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December 22, 2016

The Media Blog: The digital TV transition is finally happening

It turns out Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed meant it when he said the Digital TV Switchover (DSO) would happen in Abuja in 2016. After starting the transition in Jos in April, the Federal Government today launched the Abuja move, announcing that residents will be getting 30 free channels (even though you probably... Read More

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December 19, 2016

The Media Blog: In praise of BellaNaija’s quiet discipline

2016 has been a pivotal year for BellaNaija. Every year is probably pivotal for BellaNaija, to be honest, but this year saw a number of marked moves into new territory. Moves, which, because of their steady, consistent nature, went largely unnoticed. Discipline tends to take a back seat to noise, after all. We talked before... Read More

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December 19, 2016

Reading material: What you should be reading if you work in media content (12)

1. Political reporting in a new age: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/journalism-post-truth-trump-2016-election-politics-susan-glasser-214523 2. The Year of Podcasts: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/the-50-best-podcasts-of-2016/510698/ 3. Facebook’s Fake News problems aren’t going away so easily, but at least they’re trying: http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/12/16/13974438/facebook-fact-checking-trump 4. PR vs. Journalism? https://theoutline.com/post/635/you-don-t-have-to-repeat-a-pr-lie 5. Shady deals, they’re everywhere: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-campaign-media-deal-for-favorable-coverage-d2a945c458c3?source=———7———-

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December 14, 2016

The Media Blog: Ndani Lifestyle is a curious development

In an age where many media platforms are making the move from text to video, it’s surprising (to put it one way) to see one pivot from video back to a more traditional text-based platform. Such is the case with Ndani TV, which has quietly launched its Ndani Lifestyle blog. The website, as the name suggests,... Read More

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December 12, 2016

The Media Blog: “What did you become?” | Someone has finally come for Toke

She’s called Iyabeji (or OroboDiva depending upon some parameters we haven’t quite figured out yet), and she has a vlog called the Iyabeji Show. The log itself has apparently been running for some time now, gaining little traction, with episodes averaging around a thousand views each, save for 2 hot-button entires (one about “the other room” with... Read More

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