Roku brings small yet powerful Roku Express to Canada

It’s small yet packs a big punch. The new Roku Express promises five times more power than its predecessor but it still keeps things simple for streaming. Retailing for just $39.99, you get the bare necessities in terms of accessories, including a simple-to-use remote and HDMI cable. But don’t discount the Roku Express. Just like its other brothers, it is powered by Roku OS and gives you access to 4,000+ streaming channels, including 150,000 movies and TV episodes. A free Roku app is available for iOS and Android and can also serve as a remote for the box as well as let you stream media from a mobile device. On top of that, you can use it as a keyboard and it has voice search and private listening capabilities. You can find the new Roku Express next month at Best Buy, Walmart, Amazon, Staples, The Source, London Drugs, and other retailers.

Roku announces 15 million active monthly accounts

Roku announced it reached 15 million monthly active accounts as of June 30, 2017 growing 43 per cent over the same period of the prior year. Users streamed nearly 7 billion hours on the Roku platform in the first half of 2017, growing 61 per cent over the same period of the prior year.

“Roku is the #1 TV streaming platform in the United States as measured by total hours streamed,” said Roku Founder and CEO Anthony Wood. “We are growing our active accounts by distributing our proprietary TV OS across a broad range of streaming devices with multiple price points and many new and highly rated Roku TV models from our TV brand partners.”

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Segment leader Roku announces 13.4 million accounts, 1 billion hours of streaming video and music in Dec 2016

Roku Inc., the leading TV streaming platform, today announced that 13.4 million active accounts streamed a record 1 billion hours of video and music in December 2016 and that Roku customers streamed a total of 9 billion hours in all of 2016. According to Nielsen, in December 2016, Roku accounted for 48 percent of active streaming players in the U.S. For the full year of 2016, the company experienced record growth resulting in nearly $400 million dollars in revenue. The Media and Licensing segment which includes content consumption and promotion, licensing, and advertising sales on the platform exceeded $100 million in high-margin revenue in 2016.

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Roku rumoured to be outing five new streaming devices

Roku will supposedly ditch its naming convention and shift from numbers to names for the new models the company is supposedly unveiling soon. Based on ZatzNotFunny.com’s correlation between an FCC leak and a Canadian computer sales site, there will be five new streaming devices coming out and will each be given a name instead of a number. The entry-level Roku 1 will be replaced by the Roku Express and Roku Express Plus, the Roku 2 and Roku 3 will be replaced by the Roku Premiere and Roku Premiere Plus, and the Roku 4 will be replaced by a Roku Ultra device. The Premiere Plus and the Ultra will reportedly support HDR. Roku has yet to confirm the release of these devices.

Source: CNET