The new “NFL Zone” experience is rolling out to Roku’s line-up of streaming devices and connected TV sets. (Courtesy image)
Roku saw its customer base grow to 80 million monthly active users during 2023, helping to push the company’s total net revenue beyond $3.5 billion, executives revealed on Thursday.
The net revenue figure cited in Roku’s fourth quarter (Q4) and full-year earnings report for 2023 represented an 11 percent increase compared to the $3.1 billion the company disclosed at the end of 2022.
Platform revenue from Roku devices soared to $3.0 billion during the year, or 10 percent higher when compared to 2022. Gross profit increased 6 percent to $1.5 billion.
Roku’s average revenue per user (Arpu), a key metric weighed by Wall Street investors, dropped 4 percent on a year-over-year basis to $39.92, erasing all gains made during the previous quarter when Roku saw its Arpu increase to just over $41.
Like other streaming hardware companies, Roku has increasingly focused...
Roku saw its customer base grow to 80 million monthly active users during 2023, helping to push the company’s total net revenue beyond $3.5 billion, executives revealed on Thursday.
The net revenue figure cited in Roku’s fourth quarter (Q4) and full-year earnings report for 2023 represented an 11 percent increase compared to the $3.1 billion the company disclosed at the end of 2022.
Platform revenue from Roku devices soared to $3.0 billion during the year, or 10 percent higher when compared to 2022. Gross profit increased 6 percent to $1.5 billion.
Roku’s average revenue per user (Arpu), a key metric weighed by Wall Street investors, dropped 4 percent on a year-over-year basis to $39.92, erasing all gains made during the previous quarter when Roku saw its Arpu increase to just over $41.
Like other streaming hardware companies, Roku has increasingly focused...
- 2/15/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
Doc is about characters in a small village in Ireland who have an unfortunate relationship with Christmas.
Austrian docs specialist Autlook has just taken on world sales on I Hate Christmas, the latest feature from Irish director Ken Wardrop
Produced by Andrew Freedman and Samantha Corr of Venom Films, it’s about different characters in a small village in Ireland who have an unfortunate relationship with Christmas.
“It’s a very beautiful, heartwarming story about people who have issues with Christmas for different reasons,” Autlook’s Salma Abdalla commented of the project.
The project is currently in production, and Autlook...
Austrian docs specialist Autlook has just taken on world sales on I Hate Christmas, the latest feature from Irish director Ken Wardrop
Produced by Andrew Freedman and Samantha Corr of Venom Films, it’s about different characters in a small village in Ireland who have an unfortunate relationship with Christmas.
“It’s a very beautiful, heartwarming story about people who have issues with Christmas for different reasons,” Autlook’s Salma Abdalla commented of the project.
The project is currently in production, and Autlook...
- 5/20/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Veteran entertainment publicist Andrew Freedman died Feb. 8 in New York after being diagnosed with liver cancer in August. He was 67.
Freedman worked with clients including Gayle King, Barbara Walters, Joan Collins, Margo Martindale, Christopher McDonald and Harry Shearer. Prior to his career as a publicist, Freedman served as communications specialist to Sen. Ted Kennedy during his 1980 presidential campaign, which was followed by his campaign work for Sen. George McGovern in South Dakota and Reps. Jim Howard and Andy Maguire in New Jersey.
Following his campaigning involvement, from 1984-1991 Freedman worked at NBC and served as a spokesman for the network’s programming. Freedman oversaw the network’s press operation for the U.S.-Russian Reykjavík and Geneva summits, the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the network’s presidential election coverage and managed media relations for NBC Nightly News, “Meet the Press” and the “Today” show.
By 1990, Freedman launched Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations,...
Freedman worked with clients including Gayle King, Barbara Walters, Joan Collins, Margo Martindale, Christopher McDonald and Harry Shearer. Prior to his career as a publicist, Freedman served as communications specialist to Sen. Ted Kennedy during his 1980 presidential campaign, which was followed by his campaign work for Sen. George McGovern in South Dakota and Reps. Jim Howard and Andy Maguire in New Jersey.
Following his campaigning involvement, from 1984-1991 Freedman worked at NBC and served as a spokesman for the network’s programming. Freedman oversaw the network’s press operation for the U.S.-Russian Reykjavík and Geneva summits, the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the network’s presidential election coverage and managed media relations for NBC Nightly News, “Meet the Press” and the “Today” show.
By 1990, Freedman launched Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Freedman, the news and entertainment publicist who ran the New York-based Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations for more than three decades, died February 8 following a cancer diagnosis last year. He was 67.
His death was announced by sons Al and Chris on the firm’s website.
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“To us, he was our best friend, our biggest supporter, our inspiration, and our hero,” Al and Chris Freedman said of their father. “We’re thankful that he’s without pain and with our beloved mother, Patty, and our family dog Riley.”
Born on March 26, 1955, Freedman’s first major PR post came within the news division of NBC during the 1980s.
His death was announced by sons Al and Chris on the firm’s website.
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“To us, he was our best friend, our biggest supporter, our inspiration, and our hero,” Al and Chris Freedman said of their father. “We’re thankful that he’s without pain and with our beloved mother, Patty, and our family dog Riley.”
Born on March 26, 1955, Freedman’s first major PR post came within the news division of NBC during the 1980s.
- 2/16/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrew Freedman, the veteran news and entertainment publicist whose clients included Gayle King, Barbara Walters, Joan Collins, Margo Martindale, Christopher McDonald and Harry Shearer, has died. He was 67.
Freedman died Feb. 8 at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York, his son Chris told The Hollywood Reporter. He was diagnosed with liver cancer in August.
Freedman served as a senior spokesman for all NBC News programming from 1984-91 — managing media relations for NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press and the Today show — then was vp corporate communications for Special Olympics International for a year.
Those jobs overlapped with the launch of Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations in 1990 in New York.
His wife of 30 years and business partner, actress Patty Dworkin, died in February 2017 of breast cancer at age 64. She appeared on Broadway with Jackie Gleason, on TV shows including Eight Is Enough and The Love Boat and in such films as Airplane II and Mr. Mom.
Freedman died Feb. 8 at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York, his son Chris told The Hollywood Reporter. He was diagnosed with liver cancer in August.
Freedman served as a senior spokesman for all NBC News programming from 1984-91 — managing media relations for NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press and the Today show — then was vp corporate communications for Special Olympics International for a year.
Those jobs overlapped with the launch of Andrew E. Freedman Public Relations in 1990 in New York.
His wife of 30 years and business partner, actress Patty Dworkin, died in February 2017 of breast cancer at age 64. She appeared on Broadway with Jackie Gleason, on TV shows including Eight Is Enough and The Love Boat and in such films as Airplane II and Mr. Mom.
- 2/16/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
American acting icon Christopher Lloyd is set to join Simon Pegg and Minnie Driver in the cast of a dark comedy called “Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose,” TheWrap can reveal exclusively.
“Nandor” comes from writer and director Adam Sigal (“Chariot”) and is filming now in Leeds in the United Kingdom, with Lloyd due to arrive on set later this week.
The film stars Pegg as Dr. Nandor Fodor, a real-life, famed Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, author, journalist and “parapsychologist” who was a leading authority on poltergeists, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena and in the 1930s advanced the theory that such hauntings could be the result of past unresolved mental tensions. The film is based on a true story of Fodor’s pursuit of “Gef,” an allegedly talking mongoose that inhabited the home of a family on the Isle of Man and attracted many ghost hunters, as well as the British tabloids,...
“Nandor” comes from writer and director Adam Sigal (“Chariot”) and is filming now in Leeds in the United Kingdom, with Lloyd due to arrive on set later this week.
The film stars Pegg as Dr. Nandor Fodor, a real-life, famed Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, author, journalist and “parapsychologist” who was a leading authority on poltergeists, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena and in the 1930s advanced the theory that such hauntings could be the result of past unresolved mental tensions. The film is based on a true story of Fodor’s pursuit of “Gef,” an allegedly talking mongoose that inhabited the home of a family on the Isle of Man and attracted many ghost hunters, as well as the British tabloids,...
- 5/23/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
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