TvNolly

TvNolly

Type	Video Streaming
Industry	Internet
Founder	Adeniyi Olutayo
Headquarters	Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
Number of locations	Ghana Nigeria United Kingdom United States Canada Australia China
Key people	Adeniyi Olutayo (Founder and CEO)
Services	Video Streaming, Video Editting, Video Production, Information and Communications Technology, Enterprise Solutions
Website	www.tvnolly.com

The name TvNolly is a coinage from Television and Nollywood. Nollywood is the controversially celebrated name of the movie industry in Nigeria and TV was abbreviated in front of it to form TvNolly.

Overview

TvNolly is an online video streaming platform that provides FREE movies to internet end-users and consumers around the globe. It is Nigeria’s online streaming site where Nigerian, Ghanaian and other African movies are streamed to numerous viewers all over the world.^[1] The site has 80,934 subscribers on its Facebook fan page as at 29 September 2014 and according to Alexa.com: tvnolly.com ranks 1,687,251 globally and is not currently among the first 500 highly rated sites in Nigeria.^[2]

TvNolly was started in January 2012 by Olutayo Adeniyi and its YouTube page has 175, 179 subscribers and 17, 627, 516 views as at September 2014. The site uses a dynamic video formats that either identifies Flash Video format in most computer devices and/or HTML 5 player for smart phones and movies are available in 288p, 360p, 480p, and in some cases, 720p or 1080p HD (high-definition video).

History

According to The Wayback Machine, tvnolly site was web crawled back to August, 2012;^[3] signifying the date of its recognition as a website on the internet. In 2012, TvNolly started a free web streaming and free online video viewing of African, Nigerian and Ghanaian movies. TvNolly is as an offshoot of Nultan Nigeria Ltd, a new generation technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products across video, e-commerce, enterprise, web, mobile, animation, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies. The company has locations in Lagos, London, Ghana, United States and Canada.

With other channels like; TvNolly, NewNollywood, NewYoruba, YorubaGo, YorubaFilms, NollywoodGo, GhallywoodGo, NewGhallywood, TwiMovies, GaMovies, NollywoodClips all on the TvNolly multi-network channel but syndicated with similar experiences yet different audience.

Services

TvNolly is a video streaming site with a huge database of African Films, mostly Nigerian (Yoruba and English spoken) and Ghanaian (English, Twi and Gha languages spoken). Visitors to the site are not charged any fee for watching movies like Iroko or Ibaka video websites. They simply click on any movie of their choice and can stream it live over any internet powered device.^[4]

TvNolly operates a completely free online movie viewing model with viewers clicking on any movie of their choice and being able to access it on the go without need to register or pay for it.

Modus Operandi

TvNolly works with Nollywood’s top film production houses and purchases the exclusive online licenses to their films. TvNolly’s audience are predominantly in the Diaspora, with top five countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and France.

TvNolly purchase copyrights from African movie producers, directors or any creative contents properly registered for a period of time (based on agreements between both parties) and gain exclusive rights to stream such video to its global audience for the period agreed upon.

Internet Video Streaming

TvNolly’s primary existence is to provide top free video on demand streaming service of Nigerian and African movies and TV shows to viewers across internet platforms.^[5] The site uses dynamic video formats that either identifies Flash Video in most computer devices and/or HTML 5 player in mostly smart phones.

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