The second edition of the YouTube Creators Festival is set to officially launch on Friday, November 4 at the Peugeot Showroom on the Silverstar Auto Lane in Accra, Ghana.
The launch will bring together creators as they anticipate the release of the YouTube Creators Awards nominees, as well as an exclusive automobile testing experience, as the festival hopes to begin with a boom.
The festival brings together regional content creators to engage, educate, and inspire the worldwide YouTube community, culminating with the Creators Awards Night and Concert, which recognise the country’s most hardworking and influential content creators.
Mark Angel, Kwadwo Sheldon, Zion Felix, Ameyaw Debrah, and Wode Maya, among many others, are scheduled to speak throughout the festival.
This year’s event will feature an intriguing addition at the Awards Night and Concert, which will expand from 17 to 18 categories with the addition of a Sports & Gaming Creator category. The following categories are up for grabs:
- YT Tech Creator
- YT Food Creator
- YT Travel Creator
- YT Entertainment Creator
- YT Educational Creator
- YT Comic Creator
- YT Lifestyle Creator
- YT Beauty Creator
- YT Gospel Creator
- YT Music Creator
- YT Web Series Creator
- YT Dance Creator
- YT Creator of the Year
- YT Video of the Year
- YT Channel of the Year
- YT News & Media Creator
- YT Discovery Creator
- YT Sports & Gaming Creator
Following today’s launch at 5PM GMT at the Peugeot Showroom on the Silverstar Auto Lane in Accra, Ghana, the festival will officially begin on November 24 and conclude on November 26 with the YouTube Creators Awards Night and Concert.