The streaming hardware company cites Nielsen numbers showing that, as of December 2016,
Roku accounted for 48 % of the active streaming players in the U.S. (with Amazon, Apple, and Google all trailing behind).
I already have
a Roku account.
A Roku account gives you.
Create
your Roku account.
Click «Add Channel» and the channel will be added to
your Roku account and queued for installation on your Roku.
Then you can link
your Roku account to the TV and add a few apps.
If you don't already have
a Roku account, you'll need to sign up for one.
Once you have connected the TV to the internet and powered it on, it will automatically apply a series of updates before prompting you to log into
your Roku account (or to create one, if you haven't already).
You also need a smartphone or PC nearby so you can go to Roku's website to link the Express to
a Roku account.
However, multiple Roku players can be connected to one single home
Roku account, so all Roku players in the house are synched.
Roku players can only be linked to one
Roku account at a time.
You'll then need to add the Roku Streaming Stick to
your Roku account via its registration website, or create a new account.
Click on «Add the private PlayOn» channel, sign into
your Roku account, and click «Yes, Add Channel.»
Handily, billing for Rdio is also now integrated with Roku's platform, so you can pay using
your Roku account.
Not exact matches
Roku currently boasts roughly 14 million active
accounts — up 40 % year - over-year — and the company says its users streamed 9 billion hours of content last year, a 70 % increase from the previous year.
[Laughs] You'd have to have a lot of scale, even more scale than
Roku [with 14 million active
accounts].
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account required to watch on
Roku.
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No silly
account memberships to buy with a
Roku.
«Our licensing platform is the fastest growing way we acquire active
accounts at
Roku,» adds Ely, of the existing
Roku TV licensing program.
Across both
Roku players and
Roku TVs, the company has grown its user base 47 percent since last year to 16.7 million active
accounts as of Q3 2017.
And going the
Roku route won't save you from other below - the - line Comcast charges, such as HD programming and cloud DVR, both of which cost $ 10 per month, per
account.
Sign into your
account on Roku's website and access the My Accoun
account on
Roku's website and access the My
AccountAccount page.
Just checked my bank
account and still no payment from
Roku in there.
Roku TVs
account for one out of every five smart TVs sold in the U.S. during the first nine months of 2017, the company said.
Various other settings and features can be accessed through the web portal too: it lets you view and manage your existing subscriptions, for example, link to new
Roku devices or delete old ones, change your
account information (email address and password) and update your payment information.
Unlike with cable subscriptions, you can cancel whenever you want by logging into your
account New subscribers can get a
Roku Premiere +, which is capable of 4K HDR streaming, for 50 percent off when you prepay for three months of Sling TV.
According to The Verge, which spoke to
Roku executive Mark Ely,
Roku wants to expand its OS and assistant to new devices like speakers, sort of how Amazon allows other companies to build Alexa - powered speakers, because it is «the fastest way to acquire active
accounts,» even more so than selling media players.
While the
Roku offers search over perhaps the widest selection of apps of any streaming device, the Mi Box's personalized curation via your Google
account (especially pertinent to Android users) would appear to make this one a tie.
Roku says that its active
accounts for the quarter totaled 16.7 million, up 48 % year - over-year, with «the largest and fastest - growing portion coming from
Roku TVs,» according to the release.
Roku has over 5,000 channels, but in its S - 1 filing, it said Netflix
accounts for a third of its streaming hours.
Roku will use this time to help you get signed in to apps like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Vudu, should you have
accounts with those services.
You'll have to sign into your
account (you can create one during this step if you didn't before) and enter the alphanumeric sequence that
Roku gave you.
To do that, you need only to download the Xfinity TV app beta to your
Roku device, connect your
account, and you'll be good to go.
Then link your
account by entering a code and now you can listen to the music from your computer on
Roku.
The Amazon Fire TV has a similar setup to that of the
Roku Streaming Stick +, in that you'll sign in with an Amazon
account, then download additional apps and sign in to them one by one.
Those of you with multuple
Roku players in your home can log into your
Roku.com
account and rename your devices, making it easier for you to differentiate your players when using the
Roku mobile app or casting from Netflix or YouTube.
For the
Roku Stick, plug it in, hook it up to a Wi - Fi network, then use a phone or computer to link it to your
account.
Annoyingly, however,
Roku does require you to input a credit card when you make a new
account, which allows for easy debiting should you decide to shell out for pay - to - view content.
Boot up Plex on your
Roku and link your
account by entering a code on Plex's website.
The company's filing reveals several details about its business, including that it had 15.1 million active
accounts at the end of June, and that the first half of 2017 saw over 6.7 billion hours of content streamed on the
Roku platform.