Category: Roku
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More NFL Teams Launch Free Roku Channels
Over the last year, several NFL teams have launched dedicated Roku channels full of free content for their fans. Now, just before the start of the 2019-2020 season, even more NFL teams have launched a free Roku channel. With these channels, you can find a huge collection of videos from the team including interviews. You…
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How to Legally Watch Live TV on Roku Players & Roku TV Without Cable TV
We often get asked how you can legally watch live TV on Roku Players and Roku TVs. Many are concerned that they may accidentally get a pirate service, so we want to look at some of the most popular ways to watch live TV on your Roku and Roku TV legally. Some of these options…
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73% of All Roku Sales Comes From Amazon, Best Buy, & Walmart
Roku is one of the streaming players you can get at almost any store. From big-box stores like Walmart to lesser-known ones like Meijer. Even online, Roku is sold on almost every major electronics website including Amazon, but also others like newegg.com. Yet according to Roku, three companies make up 73% of Roku’s player revenue.…
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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…