Roku has announced that millions of streamers watched the Roku Original series The Spiderwick Chronicles during its opening weekend, making it the most-watched on demand title to ever debut on The Roku Channel. The Spiderwick Chronicles amassed the highest reach and most hours streamed of any title in The Roku Channel’s history during its opening […]
PBS Distribution (PBSd), distributor of public media content around the world, has announced a new FAST Channel, PBS Retro, which has launched on Roku. PBS Retro is a dedicated channel where audiences can relive cherished memories through classic PBS shows from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s like Kratts Creatures, Thomas and Friends, Zoboomafoo, Reading Rainbow […]
Roku and ARTE.tv, the European streaming platform, have announced the launch of ARTE’s app on Roku’s TV streaming platform in the UK, Germany and France. “At Roku, we want to offer our customers a wide variety of entertainment across genres and formats, in all the languages they speak,” said Bernhard Gloeggler, Director of Content Distribution […]
Brightcove, the streaming technology company, has announced the launch of its new player platforms for Roku, Samsung and LG Smart TVs. The launch of the new Software Development Kits (SDKs) has unlocked advanced features within Brightcove’s player framework, including content protection, monetisation and analytics reporting capabilities. “Brightcove is committed to helping media companies deliver engaging […]
Roku is adding more ways to personalise and elevate the viewing experience. Over the next few months, Roku has announced it will introduce Backdrops, Roku Smart Picture, and updates across browse, discovery, and the mobile app across all US devices. “We want our platform to be relevant to how you watch TV, whether you purchased […]
Roku, the TV streaming platform , has partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to officially launch the first-ever NBA FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) channel and the NBA Zone, where basketball fans in the US can find NBA games, highlights, documentaries, original series, and more. The Roku Channel is the inaugural partner of the […]
The earliest of what we now consider smart TVs were first introduced around 2010. The usefulness of these systems when combined with an increased reliance on streaming quickly made them popular, to the point where smart functionality is now considered necessary. As useful as smart systems built into TVs are, however, they’re not without their […]
Roku has admitted a data breach impacting over 15,300 of the streaming platform’s users. According to Roku’s data breach notice, cybercriminals hijacked Roku accounts by using login and password combinations leaked from previous hacks at third-party services, gaining access to stored credit card information and login details. After breaching the accounts, cybercriminals were then able […]
NBCUniversal and Roku have announced that popular short-form video clips from Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers are now available on Roku in the US and will appear regularly after airing on NBC. Clips from NBC Sports will be launching in the coming weeks. Roku users […]
TrillerTV has announced that its FAST channel FITE by Triller 24/7 has been added to The Roku Channel in Canada. The 24-hour ad-supported channel is powered by a variety of combat sports and entertainment, refreshed every week. FITE by Triller 24/7 has been available on The Roku Channel in the US since November of 2022 […]