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Afrinolly is a mobile application (App) which enables African entertainment enthusiasts to watch African movies, movie trailers, short films and music videos that have been made public by content owners or their legal representative most especially from the Nollywood film industry. Afrinolly is available for free on Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Java-enabled phones. Afrinolly (Android version) was developed in 2011 in Nigeria and submitted for the Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa. After winning the competition,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Android Developer Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa Winners )〕 Afrinolly has been downloaded by over 4 million users and has grown to be the most downloaded Entertainment app, designed and developed in Africa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Africa Connected Success Story; Afrinolly )〕 == History == In September 2011, Afrinolly was announced winner in the Entertainment category of the first Google Android Developers Challenge, Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. After two rounds of scoring by an official panel of judges, one Nigerian app and two Kenyan apps emerged winners of the competition. Nigeria's Afrinolly app emerged winner in the Entertainment/Media/Games category, awarded $25,000 to help them build and grow their business.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Announces Winners for the Android Developer Challenge for Sub-Saharan Africa )〕 In March 2012, IT News Africa; a Technology News Leader in Africa listed Afrinolly at one of the Top Ten African Mobile Apps describing it as "well designed, loads quickly, easy to navigate and an African version of IMDB.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top Ten African mobile apps )〕 In May 2012, Afrinolly signed a partnership deal with leading African telecommunications provider MTN Nigeria to help drive app consciousness among Nigerians and promote the Nollywood industry on mobile devices. Through a co-branding deal, the MTN Afrinolly partnership was launched delivering the Afrinolly experience to MTN’s base of subscribers spread across Nigeria. In the same month Afrinolly announced that it has over 450,000 downloads of its app on Android, Blackberry and Java.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How Nigeria’s Afrinolly app got almost half a million downloads in 10 months )〕 In February 2013, Afrinolly announced that the app had crossed the 2 million app download mark. Afrinolly have seen a progressive growth rate in terms of downloads across Africa. Nigeria has the largest share of download with over 70%, Ghana, South-Africa and other African countries follow, USA, UK, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and India make up majority of the rest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Afrinolly crosses 2 million app downloads )〕 In March 2013, Afrinolly announced the first African Entertainment App for BlackBerry 10 with the release of its app for Blackberry Z10 and Q10 at the Blackberry 10 official launch in Lagos, Nigeria.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Afrinolly Launches First African Entertainment App For Blackberry 10 )〕 While in July 2013, Afrinolly announced the release of its app for Microsoft Windows Phone and Windows 8 scoring another first with its Windows 8 (PC) application as the first African entertainment app developed in Africa for the Windows 8 platform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Afrinolly App Now Available For Windows Phone And Windows 8 )〕 In September 2013, after having been downloaded over 3 million times across various mobile operating systems, Afrinolly signed a partnership deal with the leading African telecommunications giant MTN Group to not just drive app usage across the networks 16 operating countries in Africa but also to increase data usage. The MTN Afrinolly partnership was launched to deliver African Entertainment content via mobile devices to MTN’s subscribers across the continent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=South Africa )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Afrinolly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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