The inaugural OLX Social Media Awards took place last night at a gala dinner held at Laico Regency.The awards were created as a platform to appreciate Kenya’s social media users i.e corporates, individuals, media personalities or any Kenyan that uses social media to influences other positively. It’s not just about awarding individuals, but also recognizing the various corporates who have acknowledged social media’s reach and are using it effectively to advertise their business and handle customer complaints.
According to the ICT Board, a whooping 2.5 million+ tweets are sent out by Kenyans per day. So it was only fitting that recognition was given to all the companies and individuals who spend their time sending out information online.
Two categories came with a cash prize. The Social Media Agency of The Year category came with a cash prize of Kshs 250,000 while the Most Influential Facebook Personality award came with a cash prize of Kshs. 100,000.
President Uhuru Kenyatta also got a special award for spear heading government bodies and officials to actively use social media.
It was a fantastic night and I can’t wait to see how the awards will grow in future.
Here is a full list of all the winners
Facebook campaign of the year
Bring Zack Back Home
Twitter Campaign of Year
Occupy Parliament – Boniface Mwangi
Excellent Customer Service Twitter
Safaricom Ltd
Most Influential Facebook Personality
Churchill
Corporate Twitter Account of the Year
Safaricom Ltd
Video Campaign of the Year
Faiba
Best use of Social Media in Events
Safaricom 7s
Best Government bodies on Social media
Kenya Vision 2030
Advocacy award
Occupy Parliament
Social media Innovation of the year
iVolunteer
Best Social media News Channel of the year
Churchill
Best use of Social media on a Radio Show
Home Run – Easy Fm
Best use of Social Media by Print Magazines
Pulse Magazine
Digital Channels award
NTV
Social Media Agency of the year
Squad Digital
Media Personality of the year
Julie Gichuru
Artist of the year of Social media
Sauti Sol
Most Influential Facebook Personality
Crazy Nairobian
CEO of the year
Bob Collymore
Tweep of the year
Chief kariuki
Most influential blogger
Crazy Nairobian
Overall corporate award of the year
Safaricom Ltd
Overall Social Media Personality of the year
Churchill
Congratulations to all those who won. We hope that these awards will influence more people to use social media and do it responsibly.