Category: Roku
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Roku Updates Its Home Screen With New “All Things” Destinations
Today, Roku announced that they are updating their home screen with two new destinations to make finding content even easier. Roku’s goal with this new area is to make watching some of the post popular content on TV easier to find. These new content includes All Things Food, which will help you find programming about…
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The Price Is Right: The Barker Era Channel Adds 60 “New” Episodes
The Price Is Right: The Barker Era streaming channel is getting a batch of “new” episodes from the first season of the longest-running game show in U.S. TV history this November. Starting November 27, fans can catch 60 fresh episodes of The Price Is Right hosted by Bob Barker, which debuted in 1972. New episodes…
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Roku Boasts 75.8 Million Active Accounts As Streaming Hours Hit 26.7 Billion
Roku on Wednesday reported continued growth in active users in the third quarter, but saw its loss widen from a year ago. The smart TV platform company said it had 75.8 million active accounts in the period, up 2.3 million from the second quarter. Streaming hours totaled 26.7 billion, up 4.9 billion, or 5%, over…
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The Recap: Huge Cable TV Losses, Prime Video’s Ad-Free Tier Gets Priced, and More
It was another busy week of earnings, which meant a load of revelations from the various companies. It was a bloodbath for the cable companies, while the wireless companies once again saw strong growth in 5G home internet. Amazon also finally shared how much you’ll have to pay to get rid of ads in its…
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DIRECTV is Releasing a Fix For ‘Down Arrow’ TV Guide Shortcut on Roku Remotes
An update from DIRECTV Stream that came out a week ago removed a beloved feature for Roku users: The ability to immediately pull up the TV guide by hitting down on the Roku remote. DIRECTV said on Thursday that a fix is here. “A fix has been released for accessing the guide which started going…
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Your Roku TV & Roku Player Will Soon Get Some Great New Features & 400+ Free Live Channels With Roku OS 12.5
Today, Roku announced multiple new features coming to the latest version of its operating system coming to its Roku TVs and Roku players designed to make finding what you want easier. It also said that its Roku Channel’s TV guide now offers more than 400 live channels. “As the leaders in streaming TV, we’ve made…
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Video Ads Are Coming to Spotify’s Roku App
Video Ads Will Start Appearing on Spotify’s App on Roku. Today, Roku said it is partnering with Spotify to include video ads in the music service’s app on its platform. “This deepens the long-time partnership we’ve had with Spotify that began with the introduction of the Spotify app on Roku over a decade ago –…
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Roku Dominates Connected TV Platforms, With Fire TV a Distant Second
Roku continues to be the connected TV platform to beat, nabbing nearly 40% of all ad impressions in the first half. That’s according to a report from Beachfront, which sells software to help with the distribution of ads. Roku had 38.8% of connected TV ad impressions, while Amazon’s Fire TV came in second with 15.7%.…
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Roku’s ‘NFL Draft’ Documentary Scores Big With Roku Channel
The results are in on the latest Roku Original film, and they look good. NFL Draft: The Pick Is In debuted last weekend and quickly rose to become the #1 Roku Original Documentary. NFL Draft: The Pick Is In gathered more new and returning members to The Roku Channel than any other Roku Original Documentary,…
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Roku is Testing a Roku Ultra With an Improved Remote. Here’s What it Looks Like
Roku is beta testing a new model that appears to be an updated Roku Ultra with a remote packing new buttons, based on photos of a development units obtained by Cord Cutters News. Pictures of the new unit show a model number of 4850X on the device and a “SKU” number of 4850R on the…