“How do I get my Music on Skiza?”
This was the most frequently asked question I got when I was working as a promo girl for Skiza at Kenya Music Week a few years ago (humble beginnings, but we all start from somewhere). Most up-coming musicians wanted to know how to get Safaricom interested in their music, while the already established musicians wanted to know how their music got onto the Skiza platform in the first place.
It took me some time to get to know how, but now that I have this information I’m more than happy to share it with you.
Skiza is a platform on the Safaricom portal used for download of digital content by Safaricom service subscribers. Skiza is simply a personal value-added service for its customers. Safaricom works with appointed content providers, otherwise known as aggregators who are responsible for sourcing, formatting and uploading digital content onto Skiza. Digital content includes music, screen-savers, short video clips. These content providers are the companies you need to talk to if you want to get your music onto Skiza.
Below is the list of Safaricom’s content providers as of the year 2012 that you could work with to get your content uploaded onto Skiza. Note that different content providers deal in different genres of music, so you can easily identify to whom you should channel your content. Each content provider has their own terms of engagement.
CONTACTS OF CONTENT PROVIDERS FOR SKIZA
1.Interactive Media Services
Content: Bongo and Bollywood
Contact: Nicholas Ndegwa
Physical Address: Teleposta Towers, 20th Floor
Postal Address: P.O. Box 61823-00200 Nairobi
Landline Number: +254 020 341 566/9
Email: nicholas@ims.co.ke
2. Liberty Afrika
Content: Gospel and Vernacular
Contact: Olive Githongo and Robert Gichuru
Physical Address: The Mall Westlands, 2nd Floor, Ring Road Westlands
Postal Address: P.O. Box 20000-00100 Nairobi
Cell Phone Number: +254 720 720 720
Landline Number: +254 020 444 2774/5
Email: olive@libertyafrika.co.ke/ bob@libertyafrika.co.ke/ arthur@libertyafrika.co.ke
3. M-Tech Communications
Content: Naija and Wacky Tunes
Contact: Shiro Mwendwa
Physical Address: 4th Floor, Longonot Place, Kijabe Street, Nairobi
Postal Address: P.O. Box 23920-00100 Nairobi
Landline Number: +254 020 222 2399
Email: rm@mtechcomm.com
4. Bernsoft Interactive
Content: Reggae, Classical, Dance, Kwaito, Rock, Techno, Country, Sermons and Comedy
Contact: Bernard Kioko
Physical Address: Applewood Park, 4th Floor Office 505, Off Wood Avenue Road, Kilimani
Postal Address: P.O. Box 15177-00100 Nairobi
Landline Number: +254 202 149 401/2
Email: bernard.kioko@bernsoft.com and support@bernsoft.com
5. Cellulant
Content: Benga, Zilizopendwa, Taarab, Kenyan Pop and Genge
Contact: Doris Nduta and Lee Maina
Physical Address: P.O. Box 283-00606 Nairobi
Landline Number: +254 020 387 6660/ +254 020 387 5891
Email: doris.nduta@cellulant.com and lee.maina@cellulant.com
6. Qasiida Technologies
Content: Islamic Content
Contact: Mareh Abdallah and Abdul Haji
Physical Address: IPS Building, Kimathi Street
Postal Address: P.O. Box 234-00610 Nairobi
Cell Phone Number: +254 723 997 799
Email: mareh.abdallah@aol.com and abdulhaji@qtlmedia.com
7. Air Networks
Content: Bollywood
Contact: Jaffer Jasho and Chirag Acharya
Physical Address: Doshi Complex, Mombasa Road
Postal Address: P.O.Box 283- 00606 Nairobi
Landline Number: +254 703 030 000
Email: jaffer@air.co.ke and achirag@air.co.ke
Of course, you’d also like to find out how to make money from Skiza! Read more on this post- Do Kenyan artists make money through Skiza?
*Disclaimer: List of Safaricom Content Providers was made available at the Kenya Music Week workshop 2012
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hi, great article.
To whom can I channel short video clips.
NM
Hi Nick, as I respond to your question a millennium later (sorry about that!) Try talking to the folks at Bernsoft Interactive. They have a much larger scope of content than the other aggregators.
haloo,am agospel musician to whom do i take my songs to?
Hi Elvis, try contacting either Liberty Afrika or the content aggregators most recently appointed or recommended by Safaricom
What benefits in percentage does the artist gets when is song is upload to skiza platform
Hi Kiplang’at,
Not a very high percentage. It all depends on the license agreement you sign with the respective aggregator. Read more about this on my post https://snolegal.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/do-kenyan-artists-make-money-through-skiza/
Thank you for enlightening most of us, who were still in the darkness. Now i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I need to get some music content for my online portal..who should I approach ASAP?
How do I get my song to Skiza
How can l use my audio to be my skiza tone
How to make my song a skiza tune
Thanks big dear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
how do i get my songs as skiza tunes?
where can I take ma mixes ?
Would like to register my songs on skiza tunes
i wish to see my music as skiza tune let wait andsee
I wand to register skiza
Very useful information. Thank you.
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Am amusician
thats great
thank you it is an eye opener information
how can I make my song a skiza tune n how will I get cash after pple have started using that song as their skiza tune?
please Skiza, i need your help.i need my songs to get onto skiza platform.
I like this content i would like to join as an upcoming artiste
how i join?
sir mbuff
i will check on this
to whom shld i post the song and how??
i have learnt more today about skiza! but ma quizn is— can i register one song to the different content provider becoz is gospel benga and vurnacular song?
can an artist and a producer work direct with safaricom in this issue of Skiza tune?what is the procedure?
Hi Nick. No. Safaricom deals only with content providers
hi. my Album title is horeria kihuhukanio I brought it in your office in Nairobi. and you gave me the following songs their codes 2. ritwa 3. uhithe 4. wendo 5.gituro 6.twaranirie 7.Elohim. except 1. horeria and was my album song. I was told it was not possible to get this code song.
Hi Charles, I think your complaint is misdirected as I do not deal with Skiza. This blog is simply a means to share knowledge on how to get music onto Skiza. Kindly check back directly with the office you had visited before
how do I get ma bongo song to skiza tone
i registered with on phone and we sighned a contract but i have never received my rights what can i do?
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am a gospel artiste and want to know how many people have downloaded my skiza tunes. my gmail account.gachanga55@gmail
Hae?Am Also An Artist From eldoret,now do i register my music with Mcsk before taking it 2 skiza platform
kindly answer me please
I want to put international content without using these prsps Is it possible?
I appreciate the tips on how to enter my music into skiza, I am working on that hope will succeed.
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I have a spoken word which category does it fall in?
thankyuu
were do one collect his/her royalty?
am a musician and I was like to put my songs onto skiza platform,please I want to precess
Good article, are you in a position to share the returns (in revenue per content posted) an artist may get from specific content providers.
thank you so much, i manage artists and i think this one will also help to give them idea how the skiza tune works
thanks a lot am a starting artist ….am called Endless I do rnb will I be accepted to post my song on skiza tunes?0707314581
Is there any payments required for a song to be made akiza tune???
Am volkano brixel upcoming musician How can i upload my song to skiza tune
how will i upload my song to skiza tune?
Hi am NAIBEI from kitale,how will i upload my song to skiza tune?
how to i open skiza account?
hello am kelvin aka hillvookeyz am happy for this opportunity, my question was on how kan i upload my song to skiza tune
am a musician iwant to regest my music on skiza
hello am papah kevonoh i want to register in skiza tune
Hello im isaac, i do poetry and sort of spoken word. I’d love to add my item as a skiza tune please help. Thankyou.
How can l use my audio to be my skiza tone
Can i register my music on line? and if yes , which is the procidure?
can i register my music on line? how do i register?
Can you help me open my skiza account as am an artist doing afro dancehall
I tried but it doesn’t work… So how can u help me please
I like this song ” kila mtu atauchukua mzigo wake mwenyewe.” By safina nzovwe kwaya ya uinjilisti KKKT Arusha. I have searched for it but it’s not anywhere in the Skiza tunes offered in the platform. Do something.
This is incredible,thank you for surpporting the upcoming artists,I personally love the idea.
To add something ontop of the idea ,,we should check on the quality of music being used for the skiza tune there are some music which are not clear we don’t find the content in the songs,,,I humbly request if you can check on that I guess it will be in support of skiza tune platform
iwant to applod a song
I want 2 applod my song
How can I get my funny saying on skiza tune
how can i get my biashara on skiza tune
How do register my music into skiza
How can I make my songs as a skiza tune please?
How can I make my songs as a skiza tune please?
I sing hiphop style so i want to get in to skizatune
I have send my songs for more than a month and upto todate they are not out
How to get skizatune code
How can I get a shorter form of skiza code that will be easy to my followers for example*811*code # instead of sms skiza 6933365 to 811.please help me