Tag: Roku
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Roku & Walmart Are Teaming Up to Launch Exclusive New Roku Players & Audio Products This year
This week Roku and Walmart quietly announced a deal to release Roku branded streaming players and audio devices under the Walmart ONN brand. Hidden inside Roku’s earning statement was a short line that said “We recently agreed with Walmart to offer several new Roku devices including audio products to their customers under their onn brand.…
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Updated: Roku Has Reportedly Canceled Plans For its Own Voice Assistant That Would Have Challenged Siri, Google, & Alexa
For some time now, we have heard that Roku was working on building its own voice assistant. Back in January 2018, at CES it was even shown off but now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Roku has canceled plans to introduce its own voice assistant that would take on Alexa and Siri. Update;…
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Roku Wants to Keep Ads on The Roku Channel Low
Roku says they run 8 minutes of ads per hour of streaming on The Roku Channel. According to Roku, they want to keep the number of ads per hour low. This comes as Roku reported revenue from ads and subscriptions through places like the Roku Channel went up 65% in the 2nd quarter year over…
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Roku’s CEO is Spending More Time on International But Not Ready To Confirm Plans For Expansion
Back in July Variety reported that Roku was looking at expanding internationally. According to reports Roku was planning to expand into Brazil and other countries around the world. Roku is already in a few markets outside of the United States including Mexico and Canada but is not as widespread as some of their competitors. Now…
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Roku’s Revenues Are up 59% in The 2nd Quarter of 2019 & Roku Now has 30 Million Active Accounts
Today Roku announced its 2nd quarter 2019 earnings and Roku’s ad/subscription revenue has continued to climb to a new record outpacing revenues from Roku player sales. In the 2nd quarter of 2019 Roku’s revenues was $250.1 million up 59% year over year. Gross profits also went up 47% year over year to $114.2 million. Roku…
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Roku Reportedly Controls 43% of All Connected TVs Compared to Amazon Fire TV’s 18%
Today Conviva released their “State of the Streaming TV Industry” report that looked at many aspects of streaming TV. One of the areas it considered was the most popular streaming player and according to Conviva Roku controls 43% of all connected TVs in the United States. According to the report, Amazon’s Fire TV is the second…
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Roku Makes Setting Up New Roku Players & Roku TVs Easier
Roku is the most popular streaming player in the United States, and now they are making setting up a new Roku even easier. In the past, when you set up your Roku you possibly got a handful of Roku channel suggestions that you wanted to add. Roku has updated its set-up process to help you…
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Scammers Are Targeting Roku Owners, Especially New Roku Owners
For years now we have been warning Roku owners that scammers have been trying to target them. One of these scams has been targeting new Roku owners and, for some reason, in the last week scammers have once again been focusing on new Roku owners. We have been getting a growing number of complaints from…
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The Winner of The Tablo DVR, Roku Ultra, & $100 Netflix Gift Card Is…
Today I am very excited to announce the winner of the Tablo DVR, Roku Ultra, & Netflix gift card! First about the Roku Ultra: Our most powerful and feature-packed media player that streams HD/4K/HDR Ultimate connectivity with dual-band wireless and ethernet port; Power input: 12V – 1.5A power adapter Voice remote with buttons for TV power and…
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The Roku Stick+ With 4K HDR & Roku Stick HD Are Both on Sale
Good news! The Roku Streaming Stick+ with 4K HDR support is still on sale and this time it is just $49 down from $59.99. This is the same price that Roku had the Roku Stick+ at for Amazon Prime Day 2019. The Roku Stick HD is also on sale but not at the same price…