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Discovery+ premium subscriptions are now available on The Roku Channel, starting at $4.99 a month.
Roku grows to 60.1M active users in 2021, but stock drops dramatically after revenue growth slows.
Rent the Runway begins to rebound; Roku, Google and YouTube duke it out; and Snapchat adds NBCUniversal audio clips to platform.
Roku could lose YouTube TV app, Stripe acquires TaxJar, and NPR will offer paid podcast subscriptions.
Roku has purchased ‘This Old House,” its TV programs, the shows’ content library, digital assets and TV production studio.
Roku reports record streaming growth in the fourth quarter and for the full year 2020, including double-digit increases in every category.
Roku, an ad-supported platform for streaming video, confirmed its purchase of the global rights of Quibi’s short-form video content.
In our first Five on Friday of the year, Roku considers buying Quibi content, Discovery+ banks on reality TV, and AMC Theatres seeks cash.
Quartz is up for sale, Apple said “no, thank you” to Quibi, and GoPro and Bloomberg Media are focused on subscriber growth.
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