With the emerging trend in making social media a tool for marketing, communications, wealth creation thereby reaching targeting audience, the convener of Social Media Hangout; Florence Bodex Hungbo has taken giant strides in constantly bringing media enthusiasts, social media influencers and tech-savvy individuals under one roof to discuss salient issues affecting the negative use of social media and thereby discussing the use of social media as a tool for wealth creation among other opportunities.
For Bodex, who is a media and events executive, the idea of the hangout was conceived out of the quest to ensure that stakeholders in the new media world converge together and rub minds on how to make sure social media platforms are used positively and also open the minds of young chaps on the opportunities that needed to be unlocked so as to generate bogus wealth for sustainability also decrease the surge in cyberstalking, blackmailing and other heinous crimes associated with social media. The annual event which holds every June during world social media week had in attendance top media executives, celebrities and stakeholders.
In a bid to celebrate ingenuity, creativity and originality in concepts, the Social Media Hangout organizers carved an award to appreciate and celebrate deserving social media influencers in Nigeria. At the just concluded Social Media Hangout, Governor Sanwo-Olu was awarded as he was ably represented by the Commissioner for Information Mr. Gbenga Omotoso. Mr. Gbenga Omotoso was also awarded alongside Mr. Charles Kalu, Mr. Macaroni, Kiekie and a host of others.
One of the latest winners of the prestigious award is, award-winning actress and self-acclaimed ‘Queen of Ticktok’ in Nigeria, Iyabo Ojo. She was awarded on Sunday the 22nd of November at the Monarch Event Center in Ikate Elegushi, Lagos as the Best Creative TikTok Influencer of the year at the just concluded Social Media Hangout. The convener Florence Bodex Hungbo who presented the award to the sultry actress averred that; the choice to award Iyabo was engineered by her numerous followers and engagement on TikTok. Iyabo has through her creative prowess dragging attention to herself thereby gaining global recognition. “As we speak Iyabo is the Queen of TikTok in Nigeria and by chance West Africa. Her videos are amazing and they will crack you up. She has a very wide milage which has attracted audiences from different walks of life. Social media hangout organizers are appreciating her for putting her craft on the world stage thereby encouraging upcoming influencers and social media users that Social media is a platform that can be used to create magic, not for negative vices.”
Bodex further disclosed that; the brand will award many more influencers, other stakeholders and social media enthusiasts who are worthy of emulation and have contributed to the growth of the industry before the next social media hangout in June 2022.
