Enabling Your Channel for Video Ads
Roku Community, Just to make a quick intro - my name is John and I manage the video ad business for publishers at Roku. Ad-supported channels are now the fastest growing segment on Roku, making it ...
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I've been trying for over a year to get ads to show on one of my channels and I've done everything by the book. All I get is the in-house ads from Roku which makes me look like a rookie. If the channel is side-loaded from home I get random ads, but never after publishing. I've contacted Roku many times about this and have gotten nothing but the typical run-around. I'm seeing brand new channels showing up now with only 4 or 5 old classic movies on them but their ads are working, while my channel has thousands of subscribers. They're eating my lunch on the live streaming and 3-hour talk shows. I don't know how much longer I can take this, with up to 3 weeks to get a new update published to see if the new ad code works, which it never does. They're REALLY making it difficult to run an ad-based channel if you ask me. One doc says that the Neilson stuff isn't required while other docs say it is. So I did all that. Then I hear some people in the forums say that Roku will approach you about it or turn magically turn on a switch one day if they want to or not. REALLY? Then how are these new channels getting their ads to show on the first day they're published?
