Stop the spanish ads on english language chosen content!!!!
I see it on the Roku Channel, so I am reporting it. This has been happening for the past several months. Roku is responsible for the Roku channel, so Roku needs to fix the issue.
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So many do NOT want Spanish commercials posted and KUDO'd on other community strings. I have more acquaintances in St Louis that speak Czech or Bosnian than all those who speak Spanish. (I speak only English.) There are Spanish stations. How many English commercials are on them (or Bosnian, Czech, Chinese, etc.)? Why is Roku ignoring all the community complaints about Spanish commercials? I guess because Roku doesn't care. I'm finding alternatives on my TV to get away from this annoyance. Thank you (for ignoring this too, I'm sure).
i really don't want to get involved with this but, I'll throw in my $.02.
1. You actually pay attention to the commercials? I pay as little attention as possible.
2. I have much more important things to be concerned about than any ad I might come across.
3. If I happen to notice an ad in another language, I usually think "well they wasted their money on that as far as I'm concerned.
Just my opinion, You are entitled to feel how you do. However, is an ad language really anything to be that bugged about?
I haven’t cared for the Spanish commercials but you make a really good point actually. Yet I understand where the OP is coming from just bc those commercials tend to be loud so they feel intrusive when you don’t speak the language & can’t understand what they are saying.
it’s interesting to hear that’s happening in other areas because I’m in Texas so I simply assumed I get them a portion of the time due to the large number of Spanish speakers here - even if I personally don’t.
Hey if you start running some Chinese ads, please let me know where you are running them and I’ll watch. Getting a chance to practice my Chinese would (might!) be worth actually watching TV channels with commercials in them!
Why aren’t they paying attention? Well for starters, I think all the people who have complained amount to less than 0.0003% of Roku’s user base. And those users, in the commercial TV lingo, are “The Product”. It’s “The Customer” (the advertiser) who is calling the shots. Now, of course, the customer wants his ads to be as effective as possible, but he may be satisfied that this is about as good as it gets. In any case, it’s the customer who is paying for your TV. Maybe let them know their commercials are not well-targeted in your case. Who knows – they might be surprised. Then again, they might be the only customer that whatever-channel-you-are-watching can get!
We are Amercans and if you don't want to learn our language or assimilate, go back to your country. It just makes me mad that Roku accepts the opposite
Okay, Roku! You are losing subscribers and you don't seem to care. This is America, we speak English. There are many Spanish channels available for those who want to live here yet not learn the language of our country, so WHY are the rest of us stuck with all these Spanish commercials? After two YEARS of negative comments. Do we need to start calling your advertisers directly and telling them that we are now boycotting them specifically and leaving Roku? I have already called several companies to let them know that if people want to shave their groin areas, fine, but I don't need to watch their commercials on, in the middle of the day while young children are watching!
If I want Spanish ads I would learn Spanish and move to Mexico. Since there are no more Mexicans left in Mexico as they are all over here I can convert the language to English !
It's all about the money. These streaming channels don't give a flying **bleep** about the people that PAY to watch the programs. This is nothing but disrespect to all English speaking subscribers and it's getting worse everyday. To put this in perspective what if they targeted African Americans by putting only programming that spoke native African language that they can't understand. We're all being used by advertising companies that we don't care about in the first place. What we do care about is our cash being used in a way that favors them and gives the rest of us a bigđź–•
I'm unsubscribing from all paid content because of this & going forward I'll never purchase Roku products again. Keep track of advertisers who do this. Enough is enough.
I agree they are annoying. This is America people we speak ENGLISH ! If I was in Mexico then I would understand it and I would have to learn the language, but I’m NOT so cut this **bleep** out! If you don’t know ENGLISH learn it!
Hi Community users,
Thanks for reaching out here in the Roku Community!
We can understand your concern about the Spanish ads that you are seeing on the Roku device. We're sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. We understand that the ads displayed may not always meet everyone's preferences or expectations. However, we make efforts to ensure that offensive images and content that may be disagreeable to Roku users are avoided.
We'd be more than willing to further review this commercial concern you've mentioned. May we know where you are seeing the Spanish ads? Is it from a specific channel or inside The Roku Channel? Since when have you been facing this issue? If possible, kindly provide us with the name of the commercial and give us further information about it so we can assess your concern better.
We look forward to hearing from you and looking closely into this issue.
All the best,
Chel
ROKU, I understand "You would be more than willing to further review this commercial concern"
BUT SERIOUSLY? You actually don't even know where these Ads are running? That is pathetic.
How does your Advertising Dept or your Advertisers track where and how effective your advertising is. I believe your Advertising Dept KNOWS these statistics.
So do NOT ask your customers to do your homework for you!!! Wow, how naĂŻve can you be?
Talk to your own Departments and figure it out NOW!!!
Today is 06/24/24 and there are STILL random Spanish speaking commercials on my Live TV Roku streaming channels. This is a NEW experience for me and I too dislike it. If you want to reach a Spanish speaking audience target them not English speaking channels. It just makes me not want to support those products….. like TIDE laundry detergent.
There’s absolutely no need to tell people to “get used to it”! That’s like telling people to accept the new norm when Covid struck with all of its idiocy laws and demands of everyone taking the vaccine or being fired from their jobs. Don’t tell people this is the new norm or get used to **bleep**e that they don’t have to get used to. Protest! It’s our right. Boycott their products. Use the same slimy methods that the leftist population used to force wearing masks on everyone and used to try to shame everyone who wanted the choice of what was injected into their own bodies as well as the bodies of their children. You need to get used to the fact that people will never lie down quietly while you try to bulldoze and bamboozle them. There’s no need for Spanish speaking content when you have chosen English content.
Yes please STOP THE SPANISH SPEAKING LANGUAGE ON ENGLISH CHANNELS!!! THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CHANNELS!! PLZ GIVE US OUR ENGLISH CHANNELS AS WE ASK I ASK PLZ!! KEEP THE SPANISH OFF!!
I'm watching English-speaking content because I speak English. If I spoke Spanish and wanted Spanish content, I would watch Spanish-speaking channels. See how neat that works out? So knock it off--I don't want to see Spanish ads!!! I don't speak Spanish!!! Idiots!!!
I can’t stand it either. All tv services have required add channels for external languages outside of ENGLISH in the United States. I don’t want to learn a different language through tv. It’s redundant and annoying. 100% represent. Over it. Truthfully cultural integration is based off where you are not where you came from. This is the newcomers responsibility to learn the countries language predominantly spoken, not try to change a country that has existed before them.
