Submissions Open for the 2015 BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards

The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) has announced the launch of its fourth annual Kenyan Blog Awards. These awards recognize exceptional Kenyan bloggers that have great and useful content presented in a creative and innovative format.

The inaugural BAKE Blog Awards was held in 2012 and it had 14 categories; best technology, photography, creative writing, business, food, agriculture, fashion, politics, sports, general and corporate blogs as well as giving out awards for the “tweeps” of the year. The gala event to award the winners was held on 5th May 2012 at the Nairobi Serena. The second edition of the awards was held in 2013 and had 15 categories. The gala event to awards the winners was on 4th May 2013 at Southern Sun Mayfair Nairobi.

In 2014 the awards were held at Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi and it had 17 categories. 2 new categories “Best County Blog’ and ‘Best Health Blog” were added. Over 800 blogs were submitted and more than 50,000 voted in the 2014 awards. The 2014 awards produced a tie on the Best Sports Blog category which was a first for the awards.

The timeline for the awards is as follows:

1. Submission phase – January 9th 2015 to February 18th 2015

2. Judging phase – February 19th 2015 to February 28th 2015

3. Online voting – March 2nd 2015 to April 30th 2015.

4. Winners Gala Event – May 2nd 2015.

The 2015 BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards will have 18 categories. This comes after the addition of one new category, a “Best Education Blog” category. This category will reward blogs about education matters and those run by educational institutions. The categories are:

1. Best Technology Blog

2. Best Photography Blog

3. Best Creative Writing Blog

4. Best Business Blog

5. Best Food Blog

6. Best Environmental/Agricultural Blog

7. Best Fashion/Beauty/Hair/Style Blog

8. Best Politics Blog

9. Best New Blog

10. Best Corporate Blog

11. Best Topical Blog

12. Best Sports Blog

13. Best Entertainment/Lifestyle Blog

14. Best Education Blog

15. Best Travel Blog

16. Best Health Blog

17. Best County Blog

18. Kenyan Blog of the Year

To submit blogs into the competition, bloggers and fans of bloggers should visit blogawards.co.ke/submit.

For more information on the 2015 BAKE Kenyan Blog Awards kindly visit blogawards.co.ke

For Media Enquiries Contact:

James Wamathai

Bloggers Association of Kenya

E-Mail: james@bake.or.ke

+254 722 352 239