Find out more about iChris, an autobiography of the name behind the blog.
iChris, formally Anamoo Christopher Emmanuel (ACE), was an exuberant blogging prodigy and now a self-made celebrity blogger. I began my blogging journey during my early teenage years, following my dream to create a platform that would increase and expedite the reach of quality, credible, and comprehensive content to millions of people around the world.
With this rationale, I started my first blog at age 12, but never relented in my effort to realise my dream of one day forging a globally acclaimed online content hub. Though I neither had any prior knowledge of the blogosphere nor how to navigate it, I set out to start regardless. It was no walk in the park, even though I was just a child when I conceived the idea; this was no child’s play. In view of this, I had to start from scratch, learning how to do everything a blog requires and doing it all by myself.
THE BEGINNING OF iCHRIS
At the initial stages, the dream was kept alive by running sub-domain blogs[free blogs on Blogger/Blogspot and subsequently WordPress]. The free blogs were driven by my unswerving hope of one day getting to own and running a fully-fledged website. Indefatigably working hard to keep the dream alive, I relentlessly gave my best on those blogs despite all the adversities they came with.
Circa 2014, I launched my social media presence by creating social media pages for the blog. I started by creating a Facebook page and followed suit with Instagram and Twitter, and in recent years, TikTok, Threads and Snapchat, all with the handle, @ichrisgh. These are what propelled my blog to its heights thus far. The pages are now under iChris Media with iChris Studios as its audiovisual production wing, collectively under iChris Media Studios.
INCEPTION OF THE BRAND, iChris
Eventually, I created www.ichrisgh.com as my first independent body of work, meant to fulfil my dream of providing the most authentic and trusted online content. In view of this, I can now proudly say that the brand has been solidified to realise my long-awaited dream. The website’s tagline, “The Premier Hub of Pop culture, Urban Entertainment, and Lifestyle,” was coined from this very rationale, the iChris dream. It has ever since chalked up significant milestones in the pursuit of its ultimate success.
MILESTONES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS
iChris, as time went by, landed an opportunity to partner with a Nigerian platform owned by Danny Paul, www.spinexmusic.com, from which Spinex Music Ghana was founded. Subsequently, I doubled as the content creator and chief editor at www.eye975fm.com, owners of the erstwhile Eye 97.5 FM, Accra. Along the line, Influencer Africa came through and brokered influencer brand endorsement deals with Milo, Vodafone(now Telecel), and Access Bank, among others, for me.
In 2020, I was nominated for the Social Media Entertainment Awards(SOMEA) in the Discovery of the Year category. I went on to earn nominations for various prestigious awards subsequently. Notably among these was the Pulse Influencer Awards 2021, where I was nominated for Facebook Influencer of the Year and Music Influencer of the Year. At the Pulse Influencer Awards 2022, I was again nominated in the Facebook Influencer of the Year category.
Moreover, Avance Media recognised iChris as one of the Top 50 Ghanaian bloggers for two consecutive years, 2022 and 2023. The yearly ranking body of the top bloggers within the country prominently featured me in its list multiple times, beating the stiff competition from other bloggers.
iCHRIS’ AUDIENCE BASE
Meanwhile, iChris now have an audience of over 1 million followers across all my social media pages and the website. Thus, I can boast of a staggering over 620,000 followers on Facebook alone and a similarly considerable following on other social media platforms. These collectively make up the estimated 1 million audience base that generates an average of 10 million impressions monthly.
As I draw the curtains closed, care to know how the brand name ‘iChris’ came about? Well, the initial letter ‘i’ stands for ‘impeccable’, which makes the full meaning of the name ‘impeccable Chris’. Thank you.
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