Omoni Oboli TV: We Brought Netflix & Cinema To YouTube – Omoni Speaks On The Success Of Her Channel She Started A Year Ago

Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli is looking back at her 2024, revealing what she has in store for 2025, and speaking about the painful effects piracy has had on not just her, but on Nollywood as an industry. Here’s what Omoni had to say.

Looking back at 2024, and revealing her plans for 2025, Omoni Oboli said:

2024 was a very very successful year, but very stressful. The year for Omoni Oboli TV in particular has been incredible. God has just been so good to us. Like we started this channel exactly a year ago, and in one year, we’ve surpassed everything; like we’ve broken all the records in one year and we’re very thankful, you know. We don’t take it for granted. It was a lot of hard work, but definitely God’s Grace saw us through the year and we know that 2025 is going to be even more amazing.

We’re releasing a new movie every week, you can imagine how and these are feature length films, you know. Yes they’re TV movies but everyone kept saying we brought Netflix to YouTube, we brought cinema to YouTube. Because that’s where we’re coming from. Our background is cinema and Netflix and all those platforms. But then when we came to YouTube, we decided we’re going to make a difference. We’re not going to do business as usual. So of course we released “The Uprising” this year in the cinemas. Everyone gave it 10 over 10. I think it’s the most reviewed film this year. People say it’s their best movie for the year, and that’s for us, it’s just amazing. It’s not about the accolades, it’s not about anything. It’s just the fact that we’ve set our heart to really making film that is meaningful and the way it was received was just you know, it was just mind blowing.

Speaking in an interview with BBC, Omoni Oboli also opened up about piracy and it’s effects on her business saying:

OMONI OBOLI: Piracy is really affecting us. You know, back in the day, it was cassette, DVD, VCD. Before, you do film like this, before you can say Jack Robinson, the film don full everywhere. It’s not your own, it’s other people that will be selling and going.

But now, digital piracy is what we’re now facing and it’s even worse. If your film comes out like this on any streaming platform, today today, 24 hours will not reach, the film is online. I don’t know what to do again let me not lie, because at the end of the day, how many people will you fight.

If they put it on Youtube, that’s fine cause I can write Youtube and they’ll take it down. But other small small platforms that you don’t have control, the matter is bad. I’ve never done film that I didn’t make the money back, but I have lost money to piracy. There’s no filmmaker that hasn’t lost money to piracy. The money you’re supposed to make would be more if they don’t pirate the films.

Source: Jide Okonjo

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