Documentary production
Premium long- and short-form factual, from development and research through production, post and delivery.
Sponge Media makes premium factual programming about Africa's transformation — and builds the platforms that carry it to audiences and measure what it changed.
Very few can do both under one accountable contract — which changes what a documentary can be.
Not a deliverable that ends at broadcast, but the front door to a long-term public engagement asset: where audiences go deeper, ask questions and take part, and where the institution can see precisely what its investment achieved.
That combination comes from an unusual heritage. We were established out of Sponge Ltd, one of Nigeria's pioneering digital agencies, which spent more than fifteen years building platforms and running national campaigns at scale. It gives us the craft of a production house with the engineering, data and compliance discipline of a technology business.
Sponge Media is the audience arm of a market formation company. Where a market fails because people do not understand something, or because they act once and never return, this is the work that relieves it.
Owned documentary IP, governed by written format bibles that hold quality consistent at volume. Institutions and brands participate in these platforms rather than commissioning a single episode.
A documentary franchise uncovering the stories behind Africa's most important transformations — infrastructure, industry, governance, innovation and investment. Titles in development include Behind the Value and Behind the Service.
A premium series on the velocity of Nigeria's most important cities, through culture, infrastructure, commerce, technology and ambition.
Factual formats exploring travel, hospitality and the standards being set across modern Nigerian life.
Premium long- and short-form factual, from development and research through production, post and delivery.
Creation and stewardship of owned documentary IP, governed by written format bibles.
In-house editorial, grade, motion graphics and data visualisation on a template-driven pipeline built for consistency and speed.
Custom-built platforms, APIs and interactive touchpoints that extend content into ongoing participation.
Audience measurement, participation tracking and performance reporting, handled to NDPA and NDPC standards.
Multi-platform publishing, social cut-downs, and structured metadata engineered for search and AI-driven discovery.
Coca-Cola · Diageo · Nestlé · MTN Nigeria · Nigerian Breweries · Reckitt Benckiser · Beiersdorf (NIVEA) · First Bank · Meta · Samsung · Oracle · Wema Bank · Etisalat
Africa's largest individual prize promotion — designed, built and administered end to end.
The digital engagement behind one of the most recognised national activations run in Nigeria.
A Facebook Slideshow campaign recognised globally by Meta.
A mobile money-enabled instant rewards campaign delivered at national scale.
Pioneering livestream-first entertainment and gameshow formats for the Nigerian bank — a nightly show tied to a USSD code, which trained a generation of customers to bank on a phone.
A seasoned core team led by Adedayo Elegbe — producers, editors, motion designers and writers with credits across broadcast, streaming and national campaign work.
Around that core sits a vetted network of specialist field crews, cinematographers, drone operators and voice talent, deployed by project. It means the team on your production is assembled for your production, rather than whoever happens to be between jobs.
One accountable contract, one line of editorial responsibility, and a crew sized to the work rather than to our payroll.
Named credits and reels for your project team are provided at proposal stage.
Institutions commissioning factual work about their own transformation are commissioning something that will be examined. We are structured accordingly.
Operations conducted in line with the NCC, the NDPC and other relevant regulators. Audience and personal data processed under the NDPA.
Established working relationships with licensed VAS providers, payment processors and fulfilment partners.
Good standing with our financial institutions, with transparent reporting and risk-management practices.
Experience administering high-value national programmes to audit standards.
Sponge Media Limited
RC 1641500
TIN 22368377-0001
Registered in Nigeria
56b Isaac John Street
GRA, Ikeja, Lagos
Whether it is a single production, a returning format or a platform that has to outlive the campaign, the first conversation is the same: who needs to understand this, and what should be different afterwards.
0809 300 0301 — answered by an assistant that will take the brief and put a person on it. It will tell you it is an assistant.
enquiries@spongegroup.com.ng — for briefs, tenders and anything with documents attached.
Sponge Media Limited · 56b Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos
The campaign ends.
The behaviour remains.