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Roku Wants to Integrate the Roku Channel into Roku Players & Roku TVs
Yesterday, Roku announced its fourth-quarter 2019 earnings. During the call, Roku’s CEO Anthony Wood opened up about the future of the Roku Channel. According to Wood, Roku is looking at ways to better integrate the Roku Channel into the OS on Roku players and Roku TVs. Roku has long hinted that the Roku Channel would…
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70% of Roku Users Stream Free Ad-Supported Content on Services like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, & More
Today during Roku’s 4th quarter 2019 earnings call Roku announced that 70% of Roku users stream free ad-supported content on services like Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and more. This comes as Roku reported that the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) has increased $5.19 year over year to $23.14. Roku noted that advertising played a…
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Roughly Half of All US Households Will Be Cable Free by 2024, Roku Predicts
Along with sharing news that the company exceeded $1.1 billion in revenue during 2019, Roku used their quarter 4 earnings report to give their opinion on the current state of streaming and the future of cord cutting. In a section labeled “The Streaming Decade Ahead,” Roku says that streaming has been embraced by many of…
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Roku Exceeded $1.1 Billion in Revenue in 2019 & Now Has 36.9 Million Active Accounts
Today, Roku shared their 4th quarter 2019 earnings results. In the release, Roku announced that revenue for 2019 exceeded $1.1 billion, with growth of 52% in Q4. The company is continuing to sell devices to new customers, along with bringing in advertising revenue. Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) increased $5.19 year over year to $23.14. Roku noted…
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Amazon Renews The Original Show ‘Bosch’ For a 7th & Final Season
Amazon today announced it has renewed the Amazon Original Series Bosch for a seventh and final season according to a report from Deadline. Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, the hour-long series Bosch stars Titus Welliver (Lost) as Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector (The Wire) as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino (Being Human) as Lt. Grace…
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YouTube TV is Ending Support For Apple In-App Purchases for Existing Subscribers
Today YouTube TV announced that they are ending support for in-app purchases for existing subscribers on March 13th, 2020. Last year YouTube stopped letting new subscribers sign-up through in-app purchases on iOS devices. Instead, new subscribers had to go make an account on YouTube TV’s website. If you already had an account you could continue…
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FCC Approves $240 Million for Rural Broadband Expansion
The FCC has authorized over $240 million in funding to continue to expand rural broadband access. The funding will be used in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, and Wyoming and will connect over 100,000, the FCC said in a statement today. “Today’s announcement is another important step in our efforts to…
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Samsung and Netflix Partnership Will Include Mobile Integration and Exclusive Content
Samsung’s Unpacked event this week included one unexpected guest. Netflix was at the event, as the two companies announced a new partnership that will integrate Netflix into Samsung smart phones and bring exclusive Netflix content to Samsung customers. Forbes described the partnership in two parts. First, Samsung will allow users to use voice commands through…
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Disney+ is Rebooting Turner & Hooch, Starring Josh Peck
Josh Peck has been chosen as the lead in a Tuner & Hooch reboot, a 12 episode series for Disney+. Peck will take the role of U.S Marshal Scott Turner in the reboot of the 1989 film. Tom Hanks originally played the character. Like the movie, the series will focus on the character of Scott…
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The War on Piracy is Heating Up With New Technology
Recently, Intertrust and Friends MTS announces a partnership agreement to enhance Intertrust’s ExpressPlay content protection platform with cutting-edge Friend MTS anti-piracy and watermarking technology services. This partnership will add another layer of protection to the ExpressPlay content security suite. The goal is to tackle piracy with an anti-piracy platform that can effectively shut down a…
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More PBS Stations Are Going Live on YouTube TV Today
For the second week in a row YouTube TV has added more PBS stations to their lineup. After being announced in July, in December 2019 PBS Kids and PBS are live on YouTube TV in select markets. PBS said at the time more than 100 PBS stations are now live on YouTube TV. Later YouTube…
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AT&T TV vs. AT&T TV NOW: What’s the Difference?
With AT&T TV set to launch nationwide soon, there has been some confusion about this new service and the existing AT&T TV NOW streaming service. In this post, we’re taking a look at the difference between the two. To put it simply, AT&T TV is the new version of DIRECTV, a cable-like service requiring a…
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SpaceX’s Home Internet Service May Be Spun Off into a Public Company
One hot cord cutting topic these days is the new high-speed Internet services. SpaceX has been one of the leaders in this effort with a new high-speed Internet service offered from space. Now SpaceX is looking at spinning the company off into a publicly traded company. “Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink…
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Was Your Hulu Account Hacked? Here Is How to Find Out…
In 2019, a huge black market of hacked streaming service accounts started to be sold online. With Hulu being one of the largest streaming services, it has also become one of the most popular hacking targets. So, what is happening? How do hackers get your password and username? Let’s take a look, and then we…
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Everyday Edisons Will Air Exclusively on Crackle This March
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment and Edison Nation, Inc. have announced that the 5th season of the Emmy Award winning series Everyday Edisons will air exclusively on Crackle, beginning this March. The series originally ran on PBS for four seasons beginning in 2006. Each episode of the upcoming season will feature three inventors who…
