Former MTN Ambassadors, Davido, Tiwa Savage and Don Jazzy
Finally MTN Nigeria has confirmed rumours that it has dumped many celebrity ambassadors as it retained just a few in the industry.
This was made public by a statement it released on its social media
handles. Some of the popular names dropped include Don Jazzy, Tiwa
Savage, Davido, Banky W, KCee, Harrysong, Dr. Sid, Sound Sultan, Sean
Tizzle and Patience Ozokwo (Mama G).
The statement reads: "MTN announces brand ambassadors for 2016-2017
"In line with its commitment to supporting Nigerian musicians
by providing alternative platforms through which they can receive
lucrative value for their intellectual property, MTN has announced brand
ambassadors for 2016-2017.
According to MTN’s General Manager Consumer Marketing, Richard Iweanoge, this
is designed to enable the company continue to support the development
of the entertainment industry by financially empowering Nigerian
artistes and musicians through the promotion and monetisation of content
on its various digital platforms – MTN Music+, Caller Ring Back Tunes
(CRBT) and Value Added Services (VAS).
"Music ambassadors for 2016-2017 are: Praiz (Praise Adejo);
Iyanya (Iyanya Mbuk); Chidinma (Chidinma Ekile); Falz(Folarin Falana);
Tekno Miles(Augustine Kelechi) and Skales(Raoul Njeng-Njeng).
"Four other ambassadors are - Saka, (Hafiz Oyetoro); Nedu (Steve Onu); Osuofia (Nkem Owoh) and Adamu Zango.
Speaking on this, MTN Executive, Amina Oyagbola said, “MTN remains proud to be associated with the growth and development of the careers of all our ambassadors, past and present.
"We specially thank all our former ambassadors for their
immense contributions to building our brand and making us the network of
choice in Nigeria. We will definitely continue to maintain the strong
and mutually beneficial relationship with them through the monetisation
of their content on all our digital platforms - MTN Music+, CRBT and
VAS.”
Iweanoge again said, “With the significant investment made so
far in Nigeria’s music industry, MTN remains and will continue to be one
of the biggest supporters of the music industry. We have a track record
of consistently providing the stage for some of Nigeria’s biggest
artistes to shine and express themselves”.
He stated that through its Caller Ring Back Tunes (CRBT), MTN is the largest music distributor in Africa.
“Through the platform, we ensured that Nigerian musicians would no
longer suffer the scourge of piracy. They are able to make good money as
a result of their hard work.
Also, as Nigeria’s most innovative telecoms company, we have
been able to deploy music as a platform to give other value added
services to our teeming subscribers, which have also proved to be a
significant source of revenue for the artistes such as the MTN Music+
app and a host of other platforms.”
"For MTN, we see the growth of the music industry as a
continuum and not a destination. That is why we will continue to engage
and support our local artistes so that they can find full expression for
their talent. We will also continue to explore other areas of
collaboration with ALL artistes through these platforms and many more,
as we work to fulfil our vision to lead the delivery of a bold new
digital world”
Iweanoge, however, posited that for the purpose of keeping alive
the original concept of music brand ambassadorship, MTN decided to
retain the services of past winners and participants of its Project Fame
music reality TV show, which include Inyanya, Chidinma and Praiz.
“MTN is particularly proud of these musicians because we not
only gave them the platform to express their talent through Project
FAME, we have consistently supported them over the years by making them
our ambassadors. We are proud to have been able to contribute to some of
Nigeria’s biggest music acts.”
Beyond the Project Fame alumni, Iweanoge also said that in order to
nurture other artistes so that they too could attain greater heights,
MTN would still retain the services of some of its newly-signed brand
ambassadors like Falz, Skales and Tekno who are the faces of its youth
segment proposition – MTN Pulse.
He added that there will be a renewed focus on building MTN’s digital platforms.
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