{"id":113617,"date":"2016-12-20T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113617"},"modified":"2016-12-20T07:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T05:08:11","slug":"south-africas-favourite-youtubers-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113617-south-africas-favourite-youtubers-revealed","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s favourite YouTubers revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural YouTube Sub-Saharan Africa Creator Awards took place in Sandton this November.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were given across 22 categories for users with a minimum of 50 000 subscribers in Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal, confirming that African content on YouTube has been steadily growing.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Suzelle DIY was amongst the winners, alongside South African animations Supa Strikas and Rams Comics.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Suzelle is nowhere close to the most subscribed South African \u2013 that honour belongs to teen sensation Caspar Lee, who racked up more than 6.5 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow Brick Cinema, a vlog dedicated to helpings South African de-stress came in a distant\u00a0 second place to Lee with just over 1,000,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full list of award winners (as well as African winners) below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Broadcaster:<\/strong> Channels Television<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comedy:<\/strong> Kansiime Anne<\/li>\n<li><strong>Education:<\/strong> Retutpro Photography and Photoshop Tutorials<\/li>\n<li><strong>Entertainment:<\/strong> NdaniTV<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fitness:<\/strong> Six Pack Factory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Games:<\/strong> Slushy AJ<\/li>\n<li><strong>News and politics:<\/strong> Millard Ayo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nonprofit:<\/strong> Jim Nduruchi<\/li>\n<li><strong>People and blogs:<\/strong> Suzelle DIY<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pets and animals:<\/strong> Earth Touch<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Uganda:<\/strong> Kansiime Anne<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Ghana<\/strong>: Official Sarkodie<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Kenya:<\/strong> Churchill Show<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Nigeria:<\/strong> Mark Angel Comedy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Senegal:<\/strong> Prince Arts<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Tanzania:<\/strong> Diamond Platnumz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed creator in Zimbabwe:<\/strong> Mufti Menk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top subscribed Nollywood channel:<\/strong> IbakaTV \/ Nollywood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113349-the-most-popular-youtube-videos-in-south-africa-in-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">The most popular YouTube videos in South Africa in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the very best local Youtubers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":92509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17576,2163,17520,1713],"class_list":["post-113617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-best","tag-south-africa","tag-top","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}