Roku Launches ‘Women’s Sports Zone’ To Help Fans Easily Find Games, Content
Roku announced Wednesday that has addressed the exploding popularity of women’s sports by launching from within Roku home screen a new “Women’s Sports Zone,” designed to make women’s sports events more discoverable and accessible to Roku platform. viewers. Beginning today, the new centralized Women’s Sports…
Roku Adds 1.6M Accounts In Q1-2023
Smart TV and streaming resource Roku issued its Q1-2023 financial report showing the number of active accounts climbed by a net of 1.6 million from Q4-2022 for a total of 71.6 million. The company said The Roku operating system was again the top-selling smart TV…
Disney+ Ad-Free Basic Tier Comes To Roku Devices
Roku TVs and streaming adapters are now compatible with the ad-supported Disney+ Basic app tier, the company announced this week. Disney+ Basic is the lower-cost ad-supported streaming tier that launched in December, but it’s taken a little time for certain smart TVs and streaming device…
Roku, Best Buy TV Sales Exclusive To Bring More Than Just Hardware Sales Benefits
Along with Roku’s announcement Thursday of its new exclusive relationship with Best Buy to sell its first Roku branded Roku TVs was the revelation that the partnership will include cross data sharing and advertising benefits between the streaming service and the big box retailer. The…
Roku-Branded TVs Go On Sale At Best Buy
Roku formally announced that its first own-branded Roku TVs will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com starting today. As announced at CES 2023 in January, the smart TV company is offering 11 models of high value-added Roku TV smart TVs…
Roku Grew Active Accounts In 2022’s Difficult Economic Conditions
Despite a difficult macro economic environment, causing a virtually flat gross profit performance for the year, streaming TV resource Roku managed to significantly increase its active accounts and total revenue during 2022, the company reported this week. In its Q4-2022 financial statements, Roku emphasized that…
Roku Officially Announces Marketing Plans For Its Own-Branded Roku TVs In 2023
At CES 2023, smart TV company Roku confirmed long-speculation that it will be offering its first-ever Roku-made and solely branded Roku TVs through two value-oriented model series — Roku Select and Roku Plus. The first fruits of the company’s own designed, built and self-marketed TVs…
Nordic Viaplay Content Comes To The Roku Channel
Roku this week had good news for U.S. fans of Nordic-originated television content through a deal to bring more than 1,500 hours of premium movies and programs from the region’s streaming content distributor Viaplay as a premium channel service partner available in the U.S. through…
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