Tayo Aina (born 9 December 1992) is a Nigerian-born Youtuber, photographer, filmmaker, content creator, and storyteller with a special niche in lifestyle, travel, business, and real estate. He produces Afrocentric content to tell stories of African Businesses, brands, and tourism.
Tayo travels around Africa for content that enriches his YouTube channel.
He is undoubtedly one of Nigeria’s most influential YouTubers.
Tayo Aina is best known for his Youtube travel vlog channel. He is one of the best in this niche.
Early Life and Career
Tayo Aina was born in Lagos State, Nigeria on December 9, 1992. Aina hails from Ekiti State.
Tayo attended Ifako International Secondary school for his secondary education before proceeding to the Federal University of Technology, Akure where he bagged a bachelor’s degree in Real Estate and Property Management.
Tayo started as a photographer by taking photographs of places in Lagos using his phone.
He then later advance to making videos with his phone. Later, Tayo got a camera to improve his contents.
Tayo conceived the idea of content creation during his undergraduate days. He capitalizes on the concept to improve his video-creating skills.
He started with travel and lifestyle videos.
He then started putting his content on youtube where he got noticed by lovers of his niche.
In addition to Youtubing, Tayo runs spacebook.ng, a platform for booking apartments, event centres and other spaces all over the country.
Later, He started to travel beyond the borders of Nigeria to film.
He capitalizes on this by diversifying into other contents like real estate home tours. All around Africa.
This in turn shot Tayo into the spotlight as the number of his Youtube subscribers kept accumulating and massively increasing.
So far, Aina has filmed in Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Abuja, Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi, Obudu, Niger, Kenya, Rwanda, Cape Verde, and Ghana among others.
Tayo has been a recipient of different recognitions and awards. Most recently he received The 2022 Future Awards Africa Prize for Content Creation.
In addition, Aina has been able to change the way Africa is viewed in the world. In an interview with DailTrust, he said “There are a lot of people who are happy about what I am doing and many love the fact that I have been able to show positive images about Nigeria. When people Google Africa, they generally feel the continent is all about war, poverty and lots of other such bad publicity. But my videos have created good publicity, and when people watch them, they say it’s nice. It has been an awesome change.”
Wife/ Girlfriend
Tayo Aina is currently single and not in an open relationship at the moment. Tayo Aina is also not married.
Net Worth
Tayo Aina owns one the richest travel vlogs in Nigeria and Africa. His wealth is made from his Youtube channel, sponsored ads and endorsement deals.
Tayo Aina’s net worth as of 2022 is estimated at around $500, 000 – $1.5 million.
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