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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Safaricom on Thursday, May 27 launched a new video streaming platform named Baze, at the Michael Joseph Centre.<\/p>\n

Chief Customer Officer, Sylvia Mulinge, announced that the Baze platform would help share creators’ content with Safaricom customers. The platform is expected to have a revenue split of 60% to the content providers and 40% to Safaricom.<\/p>\n

The event was attended by popular media personalities and Youtubers including Jalang’o and King Kaka.<\/p>\n

Content creators have been called to register and join the platform to make money.<\/p>\n

Only content providers that meet the streaming platform\u2019s requirements can join the streaming platform.<\/p>\n

One of the requirements is that the material uploaded must be original.<\/p>\n

The platform will offer the following genres of content : Entertainment: Comedy, Kids, Drama, Lifestyle Culture: Travel, Food, Fashion, Fitness, DIYs, Mom & Baby, Factual, News & Documentary, Faith, Sports and Music.<\/p>\n

In order to watch the content on Baze; users dial *544*55# and pay as low as Ksh 10 to Ksh 20 daily to purchase a subscription.<\/p>\n

People will also be able to share an account with their families and friends.<\/p>\n

Content creators must be willing to be represented by one of 12 approved video content service providers.<\/p>\n

Akili network, Global technologies, Ngomma Value added services and Africa 24 media limited are amongst the 12 companies that have been approved to provide content to Baze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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