The new Roku Smart Home line product line includes security cameras, video doorbells, lighting, and plugs. The products will be exclusively available in almost 3,500 Walmart stores and corporate websites beginning on Oct. 17. The integration of home smart home…
A dispute between Roku and Google over placement of the YouTube TV app on the Roku platform is the latest reminder that legacy content skirmishes from the linear TV world are still present in the new streaming world. According to…
SAN JOSE – Jan. 8, 2021 – Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) today announced that Roku® OS was the No. 1 smart TV OS sold in the U.S. and Canada according to NPD’s Weekly Retail Tracking Service. Roku TV™ held 38%…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 6, 2021 — Roku Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) today shared a significant milestone for the company and the industry. The company announced preliminary estimated data for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 2020, of 51.2 million…
Removing channels from a TV lineup over carriage disputes is common in the pay-TV business. That legacy has found its way into the streaming TV business, but the blackouts are now about apps, with Roku removing the Charter Spectrum app…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Legacy pay-tv consumers have been the victims of ugly battles between TV networks and pay-tv distributors (cable, DBS, and telcotv providers) for quite some time. Those same battles have come…
More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
Two-thirds of U.S. broadband households own Internet-connected video devices, according to a new report from Parks Associates. The firm says that the devices, which include smart TVs, streaming media players, Internet-connected gaming consoles and connected PVR/DVRs, are serving for longer…
Roku is the leading provider of streaming video devices and has played a large part in bringing streaming OTT video to the mainstream. The device manufacturer just announced a revamp to its streaming player lineup with seven devices that are…
Thirty-nine percent of U.S. broadband households own a streaming media player. That’s an uptick of 1% from 2018, according to Parks Associates. Despite the nearly flat growth, however, Parks’ “360 Deep Dive: Adoption and Use of Connected Video Devices” found…
Streaming TV provider Roku accounted for more than 30% of platform sales during the first quarter of 2019, according to new streaming TV market share data from Strategy Analytics. The firm said that there now are more than 41 million…
New streaming video devices research from Nielsen suggests that those devices will play a key role in “the new living room” and can enable brands and publishers to reach demographics with whom it is difficult to connect in traditional linear…
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