Seeking to Replace Roku as TV Show Distributor - Suggestions Anyone?

Seeking to Replace Roku as TV Show Distributor - Suggestions Anyone?

This is the image you see when you log onto my Roku channel "Debórah" which was launched during the start of the pandemic. "Live" Entertainment had ceased. It was so painful to see how so many artists invested so much into their upcoming projects that were now just hanging in the balance; it was a critical time for us all.

March 15 2020, I had just returned from a 30-day music performance tour in Australia, and I had numerous other performance gigs on the books, and like everyone else, mine also came to a screeching halt. But I was still doing TV so, after a great deal of research, I decided to expand onto the Roku platform with Debórah TV channel on Roku. This was new territory for me, but my friends, 'The Whispers had released a new project and they wanted to be sure to reach our mutual fans. They asked me to do an interview, and I was honored to participate in the launch of The Whispers new single "How Long." We did the 'zoom style' tv interview, added a few bells and whistles and presented the show as the first on my new Roku channel. That turned out to be a great reboot for me and so I worked to create more content going forward.

It has been a long hard journey developing more content in the midst of enormous challenges: 1) The impact of COVID on my industry which directly affected me, 2) Schools close due to COVID, so I lose my teaching employment . 3) My Hubby got diagnosed with leukemia, was hospitalized out of town for months at a time throughout 2021 4) I have to be the legs and voice and much more for the planning of the Ohio 'hometown' wedding for my daughter who was living in Atlanta, 5) I'm also producing a new complete season (13 episodes) of my TV show for the new Roku channel.

But I made it. Our analytics show that our TV show has been attracting an average of 35K viewers each month - not too shabby for an operation as small as mine. Now, finally here we are in 2023 and I have a full new season of shows ready to publish on my Roku channel, and what happens? "ROKU" - that's what happens. My Multimedia team and I have been trying for nearly a solid month to publish the new content on the Roku platform and something is wrong on the Roku direct publishing feature, and no one from Roku will respond to our repeated complaint form submissions, phone calls and emails. Meanwhile my audience numbers are dwindling rapidly. Roku is growing by leaps and bounds, so I guess they don't care about Direct Publishers content like mine - even though I have attracted many viewers to Roku to watch my content.

So, where to from here? I'm looking for another popular and user-friendly distribution platform. If you have any recommendations, please inbox me right away. #GoodbyeRoku #RokuReplacement

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