The Executive Vice President of Viacom Africa in an experiential Panel Session at the 2107 edition of the Nigerian Entertainment Conference, spoke on the creation and monetization of content for a global audience.
According to him, content creators have to go on a deep research exercise in order to decipher what their various audiences want.
‘In 2005 when we launched MTV base, there was a channel from South Africa which was the only channel that South Africans were watching for Music. I saw that there was a huge gap to create a Pan African Brand’, he said.
But we had to make sure it was the right channel for Music with the right content because I am of the belief that we have young, trendy and smart Africans and we had to do our research on it’, he added,
Watch the full video to listen to the Viacom Boss speak on creating viable content for TV
source: Thenetng
