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Back to news homeRoku points finger at advertising slowdown for missing the mark on quarterly results
In this current climate, Roku needed a win. Despite the company reporting total net revenue growth of 18% year over year to $764 million– a nice increase from $737.7 million […]
Roku and Walmart partner up to bring shoppable ads to streaming
Roku and Walmart announced a new partnership that aims to crack the code on making purchases via TV streaming and shopping with remotes. On Thursday, the two companies introduce their […]
YouTube’s mobile app can now sync to your TV without casting for a ‘second screen’ experience
YouTube is improving its app’s experience for those who watch videos via their TVs, the company announced today. After observing that many YouTube users were already using the mobile app […]
Google TV app to add casting as Android TV ecosystem grows to 110M monthly active devices
Following last year’s makeover of the Google TV app, which added features like movie and TV recommendations, critics’ scores and more, the company today announced at its Google I/O developer […]
Discovery+ becomes The Roku Channel Premium Subscription’s first ad-supported plan offering
Roku and Warner Bros. Discovery announced today that discovery+ has launched as a Premium Subscription on The Roku Channel. Discovery+ will add its 70,000 episodes of network shows along with […]
Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round
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Roku experiences slow growth with only 1.1 million accounts added in first quarter
Roku’s first quarter of 2022 shows signs of slowdown, particularly with a slowing of total net revenue and subscriber growth, which was below what analysts estimated. There was a significant […]
Roku announces multi-year extension with Amazon for Prime Video and IMDb TV
While Roku had yet another rift with a tech giant, Amazon decided to play nice. As of today, the two companies reached a multi-year extension of their distribution agreement for […]
For startups, the message is clear: Grow fast or die
News that Databricks crossed the $800 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold last year was impressive, but more notable was its growth rate of greater than 80% during the same […]