CANAL+ Group and iROKO are launching the iRoko+ SVOD service for French-speaking Africa. The android app will be available across all of French-speaking
Africa, bringing 1500 hours of affordable, premium Nollywood and Telenovela
content to millions of Francophone entertainment fans.
Available now on the GooglePlay store, iRoko+ is free until 1 June 2016 and users
will be able to download movies and TV series as part of their subscription package.
The new Nollywood and Telenovelas app will showcase movies and TV series from Nollywood TV, Novelas TV and A+, becoming the world’s largest homegrown
content catalogue for French-speaking Africa. All content has been dubbed into
French, much of it for the first time.
iRoko+ has been designed to optimise data consumption and the service will be
aimed at building a new mobile-only subscriber base across Francophone Africa.
With over 250 million French-speakers across 30 countries in Africa, and as mobile
internet penetration continues to spread across the continent, the iRoko+ android
app will cater for a significant growth market, with 165 million smartphones
estimated to be in circulation before 2020.
