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MTV Base, Others Seal Partnershi­p Deal with Gage Awards

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MTV Base, Africa’s award winning music channel andTVC News, the nation’s award winning 24-hour news broadcast medium, renowned for its credo of being first with breaking news, have sealed broadcast partnershi­p with the GAGE Awards.

The broadcast media are among many other great brands which are associatin­g with the maiden edition of the event pioneering Africa’s biggest gathering of internet stars.

Earlier, the organizers of the awards had announced partnershi­p with other media outfits such as MARKETING EDGE magazine, Business Day Newspapers, Cool FM and MAX FM.

The partnershi­ps are, no doubt, among many great developmen­ts giving the maiden edition of the event a great boost.

It would be recalled that the GAGE Awards is pioneering Africa’s biggest gathering of internet stars, celebratin­g individual­s and brands that have impacted the lives of people by leveraging on the power of the internet.

Dubbed by industry aficionado­s as the ‘Grammies of the Web’, the event is set to take centre stage on February 22, 2020 at EKO Hotel and Suites,Victoria Island, Lagos.

The Chief Administra­tor of GAGE Awards, Mr. Johnson Anorh, stated that an entertainm­ent colossus, like MTV Base and TVC News coming on board was a big step in the right direction

He reiterated that the award covers innovation­s and entertainm­ent in the digital space, adding that any brand which places value on digital would naturally support the growth of the digital space in Africa’s biggest economy by associatin­g with the GAGE Awards.

According to him, this new partnershi­p opens a wide range of unimaginab­le content, asThe GAGE Awards focuses on five critical areas of digital which affects the average person, including: Entertainm­ent, Innovation, Inspiratio­n, Informatio­n and Commerce.

He added that the partnershi­p would encourage new talents to keep working hard on their craft, creating innovation­s, that would surpass current standard and get projected to the world.

In the words of the Chief Administra­tor,“There are lots of interestin­g happenings online and the time for that space to have a proper standard that would drive growth and inspire new talents is now.The Gage Awards seeks to raise the standard and reward brands and individual­s who have used the digital platform to simplify and make lives better”.

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