After announcing it in September, IROKOtv is finally launching its kiosks across Nairobi Kenya and will over the next few weeks increasingly go live across the city in its pan-African expansion drive. In a blog post, Jason Njoku, founder and CEO IROKO said, "The big strategy for IROKOtv has been the ...
Nigeria's Envivo has launched a new OTT streaming video service dubbed nVIVO TV to offer its subscribers access to more 'Nollywood' and international video content on more devices throughout Africa. The firm aims to double-down on Nollywood which is the third-biggest movie industry in the world, after Hollywood and Bollywood. Regardless ...
IROKO is doubling down on Kenya and Ghana, and the firm is hiring sales managers for these markets to drive its customer-base and revenue by signing-up new subscribers, a move, Nollywood and Internet TV lovers say is an easy sell as Nollywood is already a household name in these two ...
IROKO is set to launch a dedicated, 100% Nigerian music & lifestyle channel on LES BOUQUETS CANAL+, channel 127 for the French Speaking Africa on 20 June 2017 to showcase top Nigerian Afrobeats hits, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Speaking at this year’s DISCOP Abidjan, Jason Njoku, ...
Afrostream, the YC-backed subscription video-on-demand service has today launched in 24 countries across French-speaking Africa marking its first major move outside Europe, where it is available in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, as well as the French overseas DOM-TOMs. The service, which delivers a mix of Afro-American, Caribbean, African and French content for ...
Africa’s Netflix, iROKOtv, has today launched its global content distribution and licensing division, iROKO Global, at DISCOP. with a dedicated team to license its extensive library of Nollywood films and TV series to both on and offline, across Pay TV, Internet TV, Inflight and YouTube channels. The London-based arm, iROKO ...
If you have used Netflix, then you will want more of it. To make it even more interesting, the firm is said to have penned a deal with iROKO to launch a section for Africa movies, so guys can watch Nollywood whenever and wherever they want. This deal, announced just ...
Launched in November last year, the African movie platform NollyLand has announced the availability of its Roku channel to audiences in the United States and Canada. The Roku Channel had been available since 2014 in Europe, Africa, and Asia. In a statement to TechMoran Dr. Ngozi Victoria Uti, NollyLand's founder ...
IROKOtv has inked a deal with StarTimes to distribute its two brand new linear TV channels, IROKO Play and IROKO Plus to over 14 countries in Africa with an expected reach of 4.6 million subscribers. The first for the OTT platform, the move is taking advantage of digital migration which ...
This can either break you or make you; depending on what you do, certainly it's a dream come true for guys who want to watch Hollywood around the clock. Today, Aflix (pronounced Aah-Flix), a mobile online video streaming app, has just launched its new service in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana, ...
Njoku and Gotter In a move that makes it among the continent's most funded companies, Nigerian movie platform for Africa iROKOtv, has received $8 million series D funding led by existing investor Tiger Global, with further participation from Sweden-based Kinnevik and introducing new investor to ...
Rocket Internet backed Jumia Nigeria is in the news for the wrong reasons today. A former employee of the e-commerce firm is claiming the firm rancorously abuse its staff with long working hours and frequent sacking without notice. Nigeria CommunicationsWeek is reporting that Uche Ajene, former Jumia Nigeria, head of ...
Michael Ugwu has been dismissed for gross misconduct and is no longer CEO of iROKING, an iROKO Partners music streaming outfit. According to iROKO, it came to light that, whilst under contract and salary of iROKING, Michael Ugwu set up and launched his own digital music platform, in direct competition ...
Nigeria's iROKOtv has began selling Nigerian DVDs online after they sealed a parternship with top online retailer Jumia.com.ng. Launching its new arm of the business with 17 Nollywood top titles in HD-quality, iROKOtv.com, said the move comes as it seeks to fill the gap in the current market for legally ...
