In an SEC filing Roku said it will eliminate 200 jobs in the US, citing “current economic conditions”. “Due to the current economic conditions in our industry, we have made the difficult decision to reduce Roku’s headcount expenses by a projected 5 per cent, to slow down our opex growth rate,” the company added in […]
QVC and HSN, specialists in video commerce (vCommerce), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms, have launched on The Roku Channel, a leader in free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST). QVC and HSN are the first livestream shopping channels on The Roku Channel, which reaches US households with an […]
Sky’s streaming service, NOW, is now available on Google TV devices, including Chromecast with Google TV and eight of the UK’s most popular smart TV brands as it expands across Android TV OS devices. The latest Android roll-out makes the NOW app available on the latest models of Google TV devices, including Chromecast with Google […]
Adsmovil USA, a minority-owned and specialist in Hispanic mobile advertising and digital media, has announced an expansion for its Nuestra.TV, a free video-streaming service created to entertain, inform, and empower Hispanic audiences across cultural diversity, generations, languages, and devices. Nuestra.TV will now be available for 24/7 streaming on both Roku and Fire TV, offering Hispanic […]
AMC Networks and Roku have announced an expanded partnership that will feature AMC Networks’ content and targeted streaming services across The Roku Channel’s ecosystem. The agreement includes the addition of 11 free ad-supported streaming (FAST) channels created and programmed by AMC Networks to The Roku Channel, including an exclusive channel, AMC Showcase, which will feature […]
Roku and TCL Electronics have announced that TCL Roku TV models will be coming to Australia. Available from this November, Australian consumers can purchase 4K UHD TCL Roku TV models in 55- or 65-inch screen sizes. Australian Roku TV models include support for Freeview, giving consumers access to terrestrial (DVB-T) free-to-air TV channels such as […]
Roku has announced that total net revenue grew 12 per cent YoY in Q3 to $761 million (€781.5m), beating estimates. The US streaming specialist added 2.3 million incremental active accounts in the quarter to reach 65.4 million. In a letter to shareholders, Roku CEO Anthony Wood and CFO Steve Louden, said: “In Q3, we delivered […]
Findings from Hub Entertainment Research’s study, Streaming TV: Built-In vs Plugged-In?, suggest that whether people are using a smart TV or a streaming media player (SMP), their habits are very similar. In the past few years, streaming to a TV screen has primarily become the domain of smart TVs (via their built-in capability) and streaming […]
Streaming platform Roku has announced the arrival of The Roku Channel in Mexico. The Roku Channel is a free streaming channel available on Roku devices that offers users access to thousands of movies and TV episodes, including exclusive access to more than 30 Roku Originals. “Launching The Roku Channel in Mexico represents a pivotal moment […]
Audience measurement, data and analytics specialist Nielsen has confirmed that streaming platform Roku will enable four-screen measurement for the first time across traditional TV, connected TV, desktop, and mobile in Nielsen Total Ad Ratings. Marketers running ads with Roku can now deduplicate campaign reach and frequency across all four screens in the home. Nielsen Four-Screen […]