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Roku Advertising (OneView)

Name: Roku Advertising (OneView)
Brand: Roku

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Pricing model: Not disclosed
Category: Video, CTV & Emerging Media
Engagement type: Self-serve
HQ: United States

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What it is

Connected TV advertising platform spanning Roku's owned inventory (The Roku Channel, Roku City, Roku Home Screen) and third-party streaming publishers, unified under OneView, an ad platform integrating Roku's first-party TV identity data with the demand-side/attribution tools of dataxu (acquired by Roku in November 2019). A separate, more self-serve product, Roku Ads Manager, targets smaller advertisers and DTC brands with Shopify integration and simplified campaign setup.

Financial standing

ROKU

NASDAQ

Publicly traded

Currently publicly traded (Nasdaq: ROKU); under a signed, not-yet-closed agreement to be acquired by Fox Corporation

Market cap intentionally not stored as a static figure since the pending Fox acquisition means the share price is now anchored near the deal terms (160 dollars/share equivalent, partly stock-based so it also moves with Fox's own share price) rather than trading purely on Roku fundamentals alone. Use the Google Finance link for a current quote, and check whether the Fox deal has closed before describing Roku as independent or as a Fox subsidiary.

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Product architecture

01OneView: Roku's managed CTV ad platform integrating first-party TV identity data with dataxu's demand-side/attribution tools (acquired November 2019), enabling planning, buying and measurement across OTT, desktop and mobile from one interface. Includes an OTT forecasting tool showing reach curves and inventory availability before committing spend.
02Roku Ads Manager: a distinct, more self-serve product for SMBs and DTC brands, with a direct Shopify integration (used in the Blu Dot case study) and simplified campaign setup, positioned as accessible without the scale or budget required for OneView-style managed buys.
03Owned inventory: The Roku Channel (Roku's own ad-supported streaming service), Roku City (an ambient/screensaver placement, used in a named McDonald's Canada partnership per client-success materials), and Roku Home Screen ad units (including Marquee/masthead placements and brand experience formats used in the Headspace case study).
04ACR (automatic content recognition): named specifically in the Rust-Oleum and Sport Chek case studies as the technology delivering incremental-reach measurement against existing linear TV campaigns, Roku's equivalent of the ACR capability central to both Samsung Ads and LG Ad Solutions' own platforms.
05Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) integration: per a February 2022 press release, OneView became the first TV streaming ad buying platform to offer Nielsen DAR audience guarantees, letting advertisers pay only for impressions reaching a specified age/gender demographic ahead of the annual upfronts.

Distinctive asset

Roku is vendor-stated to reach nearly half of all US broadband households directly, and 90% of AdAge's top 200 advertisers have chosen Roku as a TV streaming partner, both large claims worth independent verification but indicative of scale. A named, quantified claim worth flagging specifically: Roku states that 70 million people exposed to its Marquee (masthead) ad did not see the same brand's ad on linear TV, a concrete incrementality claim rather than a vague reach number, though the underlying methodology was not detailed on the page reviewed.

Market coverage

Roku Advertising operates region-specific storefronts including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and Brazil per its own country selector. This profile draws primarily from the US and cross-regional client-success pages; ad formats, pricing and inventory availability may vary by market.