Roku


About Roku

Roku launched the first product designed to deliver movies from Netflix instantly on TV, using the power of the Internet. Roku is the original, best-selling streaming player for your TV. With Roku, it’s a snap to enjoy the best movies and TV shows, live sports, music, games and more—all instantly on your TV.

Mediafly mPlatform and Roku

In 2009, Mediafly was the first company to be announced to support the Roku application platform.  Since that time, Mediafly has helped many dozens of customers bring their media to life on Rokus around the world.

Media-focused Broadcaster customers use mPlatform to drive interest, purchases, and subscription revenue with Mediafly on Roku.  Corporate customers and media companies use Mediafly and Roku to distribute highly secure, sensitive media, as well as conduct live streaming events, with Roku.


What can we do?

With Mediafly's "Apps as a Managed Service" philosophy, we create the apps and manage the submission process for you.  Because of our extensive experience with Roku's platform, we are able to launch your apps within days in most cases.  Product features include:

  • A fully branded Roku channel. Your graphics, media, images, titles, descriptions, and more.  Mediafly's white-label service puts you in control.
  • Multiple navigation models. Flat channels, filter bars, and other complex layouts.
  • Generate revenue. Your channels can be free, require a one-time charge, or require a monthly subscription charge.
  • Authentication. We offer multiple formats of authentication for your apps: single password, username/password, or username/password/PIN
  • Encryption. We can provide your videos using industry-standard DRM, with the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) AES-128 encryption mechanism
  • Live streaming events. Want to host a live streaming event to your TV?  With Mediafly and Roku, you can do so easily.
  • User-level analytics. Identify strong and weak videos, and learn more about how your users consume your media.

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Compare Tech Specs

Need to figure out which platform is best for your content? See our full chart of technical specifications for our primary platforms here.