How Having A Simple Website or Blog Can Help You Make More with Your Roku TV Channel So, you’ve created your TV channel and published it on Roku—awesome! That’s a big step, and you should be proud. However, once the channel is up and running, most people are unsure of what else they should
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Training and support Updates 16th of June 2025
We have some updates regarding our Training-Workshop Schedule and new One-on-One support options. Please take the time to read the whole article. Let’s start with the Support. Over the past month or so, we have seen many users struggling to get started. I get it; it can be overwhelming, as there’s a lot of
Standard vs. Pro – Choosing the Right Channel Plan for You
Developing and managing TV channels shouldn’t get as confusing as a maze. If you are a business, media publisher, app developer, or tech geek, then a TV channel is essential to connect with your audience. With TV Boss Fire, you can build, customize, and launch TV Channels to the public in just a few clicks with our user-friendly
Introduction to Live Streaming for TV Channels
What is Live Streaming?Live-streaming means broadcasting video content in real time over the Internet. Live streaming is more accessible than traditional television programming, which is restricted by sharing/reruns and geography. In contrast, live streams are available for anyone to watch if connected to the Internet. It’s also a good way to engage more directly and interactively with your audience.
How to Generate Subtitles for Free with Clipchamp
According to Roku’s requirements, developers must offer subtitles for all videos on their channels. This prerequisite guarantees that content is available to everyone, catering to all viewers and adhering to industry standards for video production. Video subtitling helps to make videos more accessible, engaging, and understandable.
Important Platform updates for May 2025
As we all know by now, Roku adds new requirements to its Channel Certification Criteria. To make sure that channels built with TV Boss Fire are compliant, we adapt our platform and SDK as many times as needed. Most of these updates are technical and don’t affect how we build channels in TV Boss Fire
How can subtitles and closed captions help grow your channel and profits?
Subtitle or Closed Caption? First, we need to know what the main differences between subtitles and closed captions are: Purpose: Subtitles are designed primarily for viewers who do not understand the language being spoken in the video. They translate the spoken dialogue and are often used in foreign films and TV shows. Closed captions, on
FREE – Basic Channel Promo for Pro-VIP channels
We all know that Roku and Amazon are two massive data-driven search engines. Both collect user behavior data and adjust their search results to serve more accurate information so users can install/download channels/TV apps they are interested in, display more ads, and earn more. Some of the most important pieces of information are…. How many
Channel Design Overview
Channel Design Overview. Using our SDK generation service, you can request two different designs. The Default Design is available for free for all channel types, Standard and Pro! And the Elite Design, which comes with customizable options.
Roku Search Feed and Search Feed Submission best practices
What is the Roku Search Feed? The Roku Search Feed is a structured JSON file that allows Roku channels to integrate their content into Roku’s search functionality. This feed contains metadata for an app’s video catalog, including details like title, description, duration, rating, language, artwork, and availability. Thanks to this feed, channel developers and owners
Channel creation asset list.
To create a channel, you need certain assets. This article lists all the assets you need to build and publish a TV Channel. Some assets are specific to Roku, some to Amazon, and some are common. It is only a list with assets you must create/provide during setup. You must also make appropriate settings in
Channel Monetization – Leads– List Building
Let’s begin with a short introduction to Lead Generation– List building. List building, or list structure, is a strategic procedure utilized to collect information about potential customers or clients, referred to as leads. This info generally consists of contact details and beneficial information to assist services in learning and classifying their potential customers’ choices and
Lead generation and Client Management
If we are to talk about client management or list building – email automatization, the only tool I can recommend is the one we use (I will never, ever recommend something I don’t use myself!) Fluent CRM Most importantly, it has a free version that allows you to capture leads, send emails, and do some
Channel Branding Tips
Your channel branding images are the most important visual asset you can use to boost your channel installation and give your channel the look you want. In the SDK request document, we require some images – images we need to “build” into the SDK package – that will give your channel “the look”
SDK Request – Best Practices
SDK Request – Best Practices A short guide about “When and How to request your SDK.” Let’s start with the “When.” Aaron
Mandatory Legal Pages
Roku requires terms and conditions and a privacy policy for every TV Channel/App. This article helps you understand why Roku requires terms and conditions and a privacy policy for every TV channel. Roku is a streaming platform allowing users to access various content providers through Roku devices, sites, channels, and apps. Roku respects and values
Trick Play images – Bif Files – Short How to
Trick play thumbnails. Channels must display thumbnails during trickplay for VOD content that is 15 minutes or longer. Trick play thumbnails may be generated using either Roku’s proprietary BIF file format or the new DASH and HLS standards for generating thumbnail tiles, which were announced as part of the Roku 9.3 OS update. What are Trick play thumbnails? According
How to Launch a FAST Channel
Free ad-supported television (FAST) has been a rapidly rising element of the streaming industry since the beginning of the pandemic. As Jason Thibeault noted in a Streaming Media Magazine article earlier this year, FAST is a familiar business concept for the industry. However, these free services offer an audience increasingly burdened by inflationary pressures and
Holiday TV Channels
There is such a thing as a holiday channel. It is a channel whose content focuses on a holiday. Is it profitable? Well.. a good planned and built holiday channel has two life stages. The first one is … the immediate stage. It starts about a month before the holiday and focuses on direct
7 tips to start a successful TV Channel building Business
Starting a new business can be challenging. Starting a business in a field (like CTV) still in its diapers, more so.So, what makes the TV Channel Business work for some and not work for others?Read along to see our top 7 tips to build a profitable and successful business model. Table of Contents 1 – Learn
Roku – Productivity Trick – monitor your stats automatically
We all know – or should know already, that Roku is constantly changing, adding new options and suspending others. Sometimes these changes are made public, but most of the time, they don’t announce publicly when they “tweak” the platform. And most of the time, these “minor tweaks” (according to Roku) can make a huge difference