OLX Social Media Awards

The OLX Social Media Awards is an annual event that has been held in the past two years and is now in its third year and it is sponsored by OLX and several other corporate organizations and aims at celebrating individuals and corporate institutions who have contributed towards improvement of lives through good use of various social media platforms.

The OLX Social Media Awards event, now in its third year, is a platform for celebrating the contribution of social media to the social, economic and political spheres of lives as well as recognizing and rewarding individuals and organizations that have contributed to the growth of social media and this years’ theme is Social Media and Economic Empowerment.

This year’s OLX Social Media Awards whose ceremony will be held in October, different from the previous awards and feature several new categories like the Sports category under which Kenya Premier League Champions, Gor Mahia FC, Rugby 24/7, East Africa’s sports betting site Sportpesa, Sports newscaster Carol Radull, and 800 meters World Champion David Rudisha, have been nominated to battle it out for the awards.

County governments have failed to make it to this year’s OLX Social Media Awards (SOMA 2015) list of nominees released today but Governors Evans Kidero (Nairobi), Dr. Alfred Mutua (Machakos), Hassan Joho (Mombasa), Mwangi wa Iria (Murang’a) and William Kabogo (Kiambu) have been nominated for the Social Governor Award and this has been as a result of county governments continuing to perform poorly in the digital space hence the decision to leave them out.

Another category that failed to attract eligible nominees besides the County Governments is the Social Students Organizations Award that recognizes most active campus students’ organizations on social media. Student leaders Babu Owino  (University of Nairobi), Anthony Sifuma (Zetech University), Victoria Mbugua (USIU), Robinson Kimtai (CUSA), and George Thuku (Kenyatta) have, however, been nominated for the Most Influential Student Leader Award.

Kenyatta, Dedan Kimathi, Zetech, University of Nairobi and Catholic University of Eastern Africa, have been nominated for the Most Social Learning Institution Award while Mimi Online Shop, Futaa.com, Bonfire Adventures and Events, Michael Soi and DJ Joe Mfalme will battle it out for the BizYangu Award, also a new category. Biz Yangu Awards recognizes Below the Pyramid (BoP) businessmen and women who have made good use of social media for economic empowerment

Kenyans have been asked to participate in the process by voting for the nominees they believe have made great use of the Digital Space.

The title sponsor for the annual Awards is the online classified service, OLX. Other sponsors are Trinc Media Ltd which is a digital agency engaging in web design, social media strategy, and digital campaign execution, among several other corporate organizations.