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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20549 FORM 10-Q (Mark One) ☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2025 OR ☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission File Number: 001-38211 Roku, Inc. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 26-2087865 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 1173 Coleman Avenue San Jose, California 95110 (Address of principal executive offices including zip code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (408) 556-9040 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of Each Class: Trading Symbol(s): Name of Exchange on Which Registered: Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value ROKU The Nasdaq Global Select Market Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Large Accelerated Filer ☒ Accelerated filer ☐ Non-accelerated filer ☐ Smaller reporting company☐ Emerging growth company☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒ As of March 31, 2025, the registrant had 129,527,936 shares of Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, and 17,129,064 shares of Class B common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, outstanding.
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Table of Contents Table of Contents Page PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION 1 Item 1. Financial Statements (Unaudited) 1 Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets 1 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations 2 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss 3 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity 4 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 5 Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 7 1. The Company 7 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies 7 3. Revenue 9 4. Goodwill and Intangible Assets 10 5. Balance Sheet Components 11 6. Content Assets 12 7. Strategic Investments 13 8. Fair Value Disclosure 13 9. Leases 15 10. Debt 16 11. Stockholders’ Equity 16 12. Commitments and Contingencies 18 13. Income Taxes 19 14. Net Loss Per Share 19 15. Segment Information 20 16. Restructuring Charges 21 17. Subsequent Event 22 Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 23 Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 30 Item 4. Controls and Procedures 30 PART II. OTHER INFORMATION 31 Item 1. Legal Proceedings 31 Item 1A. Risk Factors 31 Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds 62 Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities 62 Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 62 Item 5. Other Information 63 Item 6. Exhibits 64 Signatures 65 i
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Table of Contents GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TERMS As used in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (“Quarterly Report”), unless the context otherwise requires, references to thefollowing terms have the respective meaning as defined below. Ad-supported Video on Demand (AVOD): Streaming content supported by advertising that does not charge a fee to theviewer. Apps: Primarily refers to the direct-to-consumer streaming applications on the Roku platform (e.g., The Roku Channel orNetflix). We also use “apps” to refer to mobile applications (such as our Roku Smart Home app). Average Revenue per User (ARPU): Platform revenue for the trailing four quarters divided by the average of the number ofStreaming Households at the end of the current period and the end of the corresponding period in the prior year. Demand-side platform (DSP): Programmatic advertising technology that allows advertisers and advertising agencies to buyadvertising inventory across multiple platforms and publishers through one interface. FAST: Free, ad-supported linear streaming TV, which does not include on-demand content. Licensed Roku TV partners: TV original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) that license the Roku TV OS and leverage oursmart TV reference designs to build TVs. Linear TV: A TV format that provides programming at specifically scheduled times. Premium Subscriptions: Subscription-based streaming services from content partners (e.g., Paramount) offered throughThe Roku Channel. Roku-branded TVs: TVs powered by the Roku TV OS that are designed, made, and sold by Roku. Roku-branded TVsinclude the Roku Select, Roku Plus, and Roku Pro Series TVs. Roku Experience: The user experience on the Roku platform, representing all the features that Roku builds and operates toengage, delight, and help our viewers easily find great entertainment. Roku Home Screen: The first screen the viewer sees when they begin streaming with a Roku streaming device. The vieweris also returned to the Roku Home Screen by pressing the home button on the Roku remote or when exiting apps. Roku Home Screen Menu: The left-hand navigation bar on the Roku Home Screen. Roku Originals: Original content programming created by Roku. Roku TV OS (or Roku platform): Roku operating system that is purpose built for TV and powers Roku streaming devices. Roku TV models: TVs powered by the Roku TV OS that are made and sold by our licensed Roku TV partners. Supply-side platform (SSP): Programmatic advertising technology that enables publishers to sell their advertising inventoryto multiple demand sources. Streaming: The distribution of video, music, or other media content via the internet. Streaming device: Any device that enables streaming. Roku streaming devices include Roku streaming players, Roku TVmodels, and Roku-branded TVs. Streaming Hours: The aggregate amount of time streaming devices stream content on Roku’s streaming platform in a givenperiod. See Item 2, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, KeyPerformance Metrics and Non-GAAP Measures, elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for additional detail. Streaming Households: The number of distinct user accounts that have streamed content on our platform within the last 30days of the period. Streaming platform: The technology that delivers the viewer experience and streaming apps (e.g., The Roku Channel andNetflix) over an internet connection to a user’s TV. Streaming players: A device that connects to a TV via an HDMI connection to enable streaming to the TV (such as the RokuExpress, Roku Express 4K, Roku Streaming Stick 4K, Roku Ultra, Roku Streambar, and Roku Streambar Pro). Smart TV: A television that is connected to the internet through an operating system (e.g., the Roku TV OS). Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD): Streaming content that is available on demand, requires a paid subscription, andcan be ad-supported or ad-free. TV streaming: The act of streaming content over the internet on a TV. The Roku Channel: Roku’s owned and operated streaming service. The Roku Channel aggregates three types of content—AVOD, FAST, and Premium Subscriptions—within The Roku Channel app and through viewing experiences integratedthroughout the Roku platform (e.g., Live TV on the Roku Home Screen Menu). i
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Table of Contents NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This Quarterly Report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933,as amended (“Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), about usand our industry that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts in thisQuarterly Report, including statements regarding our future results of operations and financial condition, business strategy, andplans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-lookingstatements may be identified by words such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “design,” “developing,”“estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potentially,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would,” “target,” or the negative ofthese terms or other similar expressions. We caution you that the foregoing may not encompass all of the forward-lookingstatements made in this Quarterly Report. Forward-looking statements are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currentlyavailable. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including risks described in the section titled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report, regarding, among other things: • our financial performance, including our revenue, cost of revenue, operating expenses, profitability, and key performance metrics;• the impact of macroeconomic conditions and uncertainties, such as tariffs, inflation, and geopolitical conflicts, on our business, operations, and the markets and communities in which we and our advertisers, content partners, licensed Roku TV partners, other device licensees, manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, and viewers operate; • our ability to attract and retain viewers and increase Streaming Hours; • our ability to attract and retain advertisers to purchase advertising on our streaming platform; • our ability to attract and retain TV brands and manufacturing partners to license and deploy our technology; • our ability to produce or acquire rights to distribute popular content on our streaming platform on favorable terms, or at all, including the renewals of our existing agreements with content partners; • changes in TV viewing habits and the growth of TV streaming; • the growth of our relevant markets, including the growth in advertising spend on TV streaming platforms, and our ability to successfully grow our business in those markets;• our ability to adapt to changing market conditions and technological developments; • our ability to develop and launch new products and provide ancillary services and support; • our ability to integrate acquired businesses, products, and technologies; • our ability to expand our products and services into adjacent markets, scale our operations in these markets, and do so profitably over time; • our ability to compete effectively with existing competitors and new market entrants; • our ability to successfully manage domestic and international expansion; • our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; • our ability to address potential and actual cybersecurity incidents and system failures involving our products, systems, and operations; • our ability to maintain, protect, and enhance our intellectual property;• our ability to obtain financing on favorable terms, or at all; • our ability to manage the selling prices of our products to increase Streaming Households; and • our ability to comply with laws and regulations that currently apply or may become applicable to our business both in the United States and internationally, including compliance with privacy and data protection regulations. Other sections of this Quarterly Report may include additional factors that could harm our business and financialperformance. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risk factors emerge from timeto time, and it is not possible for our management to predict all risk factors nor can we assess the impact of all factors on ourbusiness or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ from those contained in,or implied by, any forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We cannot assure you that the eventsand circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. Although we believe that theexpectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity,performance, or achievements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-lookingstatements for any reason after the date of this Quarterly Report or to conform these statements to actual results or to changesin our expectations. You should read this Quarterly Report, and the documents referenced in and filed as exhibits to thisQuarterly Report, with the understanding that our actual future results, levels of activity, performance, and achievements may bematerially different from what we expect. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements. Investors and others should note that we may announce material business and financial information to our investors usingour investor relations website (roku.com/investor), our blog (roku.com/blog), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)filings, webcasts, press releases, and conference calls. We use these mediums to communicate with investors and the generalpublic about our company, our products and services, and other issues. It is possible that the information that we make availablemay be deemed to be material information. We therefore encourage investors, the media, and others interested in our companyto review the information that we post on our investor relations website. Roku, the Roku logo, and other trade names,trademarks, or service marks of Roku appearing in this report are the property of Roku. Trade names, trademarks, and servicemarks of other companies appearing in this report are the property of their respective holders. Information contained on oraccessible through the websites listed above is not incorporated by reference nor otherwise included in this Quarterly Report,and any references to these websites are intended to be inactive textual references only. i
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Table of Contents PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION Item 1. Financial Statements ROKU, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (in thousands, except par value data) (unaudited) As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Assets Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,256,153 $ 2,160,236 Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $50,240 and $72,657 as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively 650,187 812,510 Inventories 135,297 158,271 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 105,404 103,146 Total current assets 3,147,041 3,234,163 Property and equipment, net 203,619 213,690 Operating lease right-of-use assets 292,146 304,505 Content assets, net 227,862 237,321 Intangible assets, net 23,976 27,501 Goodwill 161,519 161,519 Other non-current assets 123,711 125,234 Total Assets $ 4,179,874 $ 4,303,933 Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity Current liabilities: Accounts payable $ 194,576 $ 273,985 Accrued liabilities 788,758 852,799 Deferred revenue, current portion 115,839 105,718 Total current liabilities 1,099,173 1,232,502 Deferred revenue, non-current portion 25,122 25,050 Operating lease liability, non-current portion 496,084 512,706 Other long-term liabilities 33,786 40,938 Total Liabilities 1,654,165 1,811,196 Commitments and contingencies (Note 12) Stockholders’ Equity: Common stock, $0.0001 par value 15 15 Additional paid-in capital 3,980,854 3,921,432 Accumulated other comprehensive loss (756) (1,737) Accumulated deficit (1,454,404) (1,426,973) Total stockholders’ equity 2,525,709 2,492,737 Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity $ 4,179,874 $ 4,303,933 See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. 1
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Table of Contents ROKU, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (in thousands, except per share data) (unaudited) Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Net revenue: Platform $ 880,817 $ 754,935 Devices 139,855 126,534 Total net revenue 1,020,672 881,469 Cost of revenue: Platform 416,506 360,566 Devices 159,121 132,612 Total cost of revenue 575,627 493,178 Gross profit (loss): Platform 464,311 394,369 Devices (19,266) (6,078) Total gross profit 445,045 388,291 Operating expenses: Research and development 184,579 180,459 Sales and marketing 223,693 202,124 General and administrative 94,503 77,744 Total operating expenses 502,775 460,327 Loss from operations (57,730) (72,036) Other income, net: Interest expense (433) (10) Other income, net 17,649 25,956 Total other income, net 17,216 25,946 Loss before income taxes (40,514) (46,090) Income tax (benefit) expense (13,083) 4,765 Net loss $ (27,431) $ (50,855) Net loss per share — basic and diluted $ (0.19) $ (0.35) Weighted-average common shares outstanding — basic and diluted 146,197 143,751 See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. 2
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Table of Contents ROKU, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (in thousands) (unaudited) Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Net loss $ (27,431) $ (50,855) Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax: Foreign currency translation adjustment 981 (337) Comprehensive loss $ (26,450) $ (51,192) See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. 3
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Table of Contents ROKU, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (in thousands) (unaudited) Common Stock Additional Paid-in Capital Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Accumulated Deficit Total Stockholders’ EquityThree Months Ended March 31, 2025 Shares Amount Balance—December 31, 2024 145,910 $ 15 $3,921,432 $ (1,737) $(1,426,973) $ 2,492,737 Issuance of common stock pursuant to equity incentive plans 1,226 — 2,436 — — 2,436 Stock-based compensation expense — — 95,494 — — 95,494 Shares withheld for taxes related to net share settlement of equity awards (479) — (38,508) — — (38,508) Foreign currency translation adjustment — — — 981 — 981 Net loss — — — — (27,431) (27,431) Balance—March 31, 2025 146,657 $ 15 $3,980,854 $ (756) $(1,454,404) $ 2,525,709 Common Stock Additional Paid-in Capital Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Accumulated Deficit Total Stockholders’ EquityThree Months Ended March 31, 2024 Shares Amount Balance—December 31, 2023 143,502 $ 14 $3,623,747 $ 159 $(1,297,587) $ 2,326,333 Issuance of common stock pursuant to equity incentive plans 1,013 — 8,262 — — 8,262 Stock-based compensation expense — — 94,632 — — 94,632 Shares withheld for taxes related to net share settlement of equity awards (350) — (22,206) — — (22,206) Foreign currency translation adjustment — — — (337) — (337) Net loss — — — — (50,855) (50,855) Balance—March 31, 2024 144,165 $ 14 $3,704,435 $ (178) $(1,348,442) $ 2,355,829 See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. 4
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Table of Contents ROKU, INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (in thousands) (unaudited) Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Cash flows from operating activities: Net loss $ (27,431) $ (50,855) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation and amortization 15,192 16,473 Stock-based compensation expense 95,494 94,632 Amortization of right-of-use assets 11,575 11,876 Amortization of content assets 48,044 47,891 Foreign currency remeasurement losses 243 997 Change in fair value of strategic investment in convertible promissory notes 6,284 (574) Impairment of assets 2,870 851 Provision for (recoveries of) doubtful accounts 1,285 (7) Other items, net (425) (748) Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable 161,122 99,500 Inventories 22,974 (2,402) Prepaid expenses and other current assets (12,381) 6,665 Content assets and liabilities, net (43,113) (50,059) Other non-current assets 2,790 (4,763) Accounts payable (79,459) 919 Accrued liabilities (57,984) (109,591) Operating lease liabilities (18,783) (12,704) Other long-term liabilities 242 170 Deferred revenue 10,193 (1,588) Net cash provided by operating activities 138,732 46,683 Cash flows from investing activities: Purchases of property and equipment (1,931) (672) Purchase of strategic investments (7,000) — Net cash used in investing activities (8,931) (672) Cash flows from financing activities: Proceeds from equity issued under incentive plans 2,436 8,262 Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards (38,508) (22,206) Net cash used in financing activities (36,072) (13,944) Net increase in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 93,729 32,067 Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 2,188 (2,230) Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash—beginning of period 2,160,639 2,066,604 Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash—end of period $ 2,256,556 $ 2,096,441 5
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Table of Contents Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at end of period: Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,256,153 $ 2,055,728 Restricted cash, current 403 40,713 Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash—end of period $ 2,256,556 $ 2,096,441 Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information: Cash paid for interest $ 28 $ 29 Cash paid for income taxes $ 2,162 $ 2,144 Supplemental disclosures of non-cash investing and financing activities: Unpaid portion of property and equipment purchases $ 36 $ 86 See accompanying Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. 6
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Table of Contents ROKU, INC. NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1. THE COMPANY Organization and Description of Business Roku, Inc. (the “Company” or “Roku”), was formed in October 2002 as Roku LLC under the laws of the State of Delaware. On February 1, 2008, Roku LLC was converted into Roku, Inc., a Delaware corporation. The Company operates intwo reportable segments and generates platform revenue from the sale of digital advertising (including direct andprogrammatic video advertising, ads integrated into the Company’s user interface, and related services) and streamingservices distribution (including subscription and transaction revenue shares, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons on remote controls). The Company generates devices revenue from the sale of streaming players,Roku-branded TVs, smart home products and services, audio products, and related accessories. 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation The condensed consolidated financial statements, which include the accounts of Roku and its wholly-ownedsubsidiaries, have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S.GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) regarding interim financial reporting. Certain information and note disclosures normally included in the financial statements prepared inaccordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. These condensedconsolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements contained in theCompany’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025 (the “Annual Report”). The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024 has been derived from the audited consolidatedfinancial statements as of that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes included in the Company’s AnnualReport. The interim financial information is unaudited, but reflects all normal recurring adjustments that are, in the opinion of management, necessary to fairly present the information set forth herein. The results of operations for the three monthsended March 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results to be expected for the full year or any futureperiods. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain prior period amountsreported in our condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes have been reclassified to conform tothe current period presentation. Use of Estimates The preparation of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAPrequires management to make certain estimates, judgments, and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets,liabilities, net revenue, and expenses. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include: • revenue recognition: determining the nature and timing of satisfaction of performance obligations, variable consideration, determining the stand-alone selling prices of performance obligations, gross versus net revenuerecognition, and evaluation of customer versus vendor relationships; • amortization and impairment of content assets; • the impairment of long-lived assets; • inventory reserves; • valuation of strategic investments (see Note 7); • useful lives of tangible and intangible assets; • allowances for sales returns and sales incentives; and • the valuation of deferred income tax assets. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that the Companybelieves to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from the Company’s estimates and assumptions. Cash and Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less at thedate of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents consist primarily of bank deposit accounts andinvestments in money market funds. 7
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Table of Contents The Company’s restricted cash balance is included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets in the condensedconsolidated balance sheets and is used to secure outstanding letters of credit related to operating leases for office facilities. The Company maintains its cash, cash equivalent, and restricted cash balances with financial institutions of high creditquality and continuously monitors the amount of exposure to any one institution and diversifies as necessary in order tominimize its concentration risk. Such balances often exceed regulated insured limits. Accounts Receivable, Net Accounts receivable are typically unsecured and are derived from revenue earned from customers. They are stated atinvoice value less estimated allowances for sales returns, sales incentives, doubtful accounts, and other miscellaneousallowances. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers to determine allowances for potential creditlosses and doubtful accounts. The Company considers historical experience, ongoing promotional activities, historical claim rates, and other factors to determine the allowances for sales returns and sales incentives. Allowance for Sales Returns: Allowance for sales returns consisted of the following activities (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Beginning balance $ 6,427 $ 7,808 Add: Charged to revenue 4,326 3,608 Less: Utilization of sales return reserve (5,387) (4,650) Ending balance $ 5,366 $ 6,766 Allowance for Sales Incentives: Allowance for sales incentives consisted of the following activities (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Beginning balance $ 63,367 $ 23,024 Add: Charged to revenue 51,650 23,261 Less: Utilization of sales incentive reserve (73,978) (29,765) Ending balance $ 41,039 $ 16,520 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts: Allowance for doubtful accounts consisted of the following activities (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Beginning balance $ 1,895 $ 2,213 Provision for (recoveries of) doubtful accounts 1,285 (7) Adjustments for write-off (100) (550) Ending balance $ 3,080 $ 1,656 Customer J accounted for 13% of the Company’s accounts receivable, net balance as of March 31, 2025. Customers Jand B accounted for 12% and 10%, respectively, of the Company’s accounts receivable, net balance as of December 31, 2024. Inventories The Company’s inventories consist primarily of finished goods and are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value with cost determined on a first-in, first-out basis. Provisions are made if the cost of the inventories exceeds their net realizablevalue. The Company evaluates inventory levels for excess and obsolete products, based on its assessment of future demandand market conditions. The Company recognized inventory provisions charged to the Cost of revenue, devices, of $6.8 millionand $1.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. As of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the ending inventory reserve was $20.3 million and $28.7 million, respectively. In addition, the Company records a liability for expected losses on firm, noncancelable, and unconditional purchasecommitments with contract manufacturers and suppliers. The Company recorded losses on purchase commitments, recordedin Cost of revenue, devices, of $0.3 million and $4.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The associated liabilities related to the anticipated losses on firm purchase commitments were immaterial as ofMarch 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. 8
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Table of Contents Recent Accounting Pronouncements In November 2024, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40) - Disaggregation of IncomeStatement Expenses, which requires additional disclosures of specific expense categories in the notes to the financialstatements on an annual and interim basis. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026 andinterim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027 on a retrospective or prospective basis. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the effects of the new guidance. In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740) - Improvements to Income TaxDisclosures, that requires incremental disclosures within the income tax disclosures that increase the transparency and usefulness of income tax disclosures. The updated disclosures primarily require specific categories and greaterdisaggregation within the rate reconciliation, disaggregation of income taxes paid, and modifications of other income tax-related disclosures. The guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Retrospectiveapplication is also permitted. The Company is currently in the process of evaluating the effects of the new guidance. 3. REVENUE The Company’s disaggregated revenue is represented by the two reportable segments discussed in Note 15. The contract balances include the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Accounts receivable, net $ 650,187 $ 812,510 Contract assets (included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets) 1,339 1,687 Deferred revenue: Deferred revenue, current portion 115,839 105,718 Deferred revenue, non-current portion 25,122 25,050 Total deferred revenue $ 140,961 $ 130,768 Accounts receivable are recorded at the amount invoiced, net of an allowance for sales returns, sales incentives, and doubtful accounts. Payment terms can vary by customer and contract. The timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of invoicing to customers. Contract assets are createdwhen invoicing occurs subsequent to revenue recognition. Contract assets are transferred to accounts receivable when theright to invoice becomes unconditional. The Company’s contract assets are current in nature and are included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets. Contract assets decreased by $0.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025due to the timing of billing to customers. Deferred revenue reflects consideration invoiced prior to the completion of performance obligations and revenue recognition. Deferred revenue increased by $10.2 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025 primarily due to thetiming of fulfillment of performance obligations related to advertising arrangements as well as growth in PremiumSubscriptions. Revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2025, from amounts included in the total deferred revenue as of December 31, 2024, was $45.0 million. Revenue recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2024,from amounts included in the total deferred revenue as of December 31, 2023, was $67.3 million. Revenue allocated to remaining performance obligations represents estimated contracted revenue that has not yetbeen recognized which includes unearned revenue and amounts that will be invoiced and recognized as revenue in future periods. Remaining performance obligations exclude contracts with original expected terms of one year or less. Estimatedcontracted revenue for these remaining performance obligations was $811.1 million as of March 31, 2025, of which theCompany expects to recognize approximately 76% over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter. Revenue recognized from performance obligations that were satisfied in previous periods due to changes in the estimated transaction price of the Company’s revenue contracts was not significant during the three months ended March 31,2025 and 2024. Customer J accounted for 11% of the Company’s total net revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2025. TheCompany did not have any customer that individually accounted for 10% or more of its total net revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2024. 9
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Table of Contents 4. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS Goodwill Goodwill represents the excess of purchase consideration in a business combination over the fair value of tangible andintangible assets acquired net of the liabilities assumed. Intangible Assets The following tables summarize the Company’s intangible assets for the periods presented (in thousands, exceptyears): As of March 31, 2025 Gross Carrying Amount Accumulated Amortization Net Carrying Amount Weighted-Average Useful Lives (in years) Developed technology $ 73,367 $ (63,848) $ 9,519 5.9 Customer relationships 14,100 (14,100) — 4.0 Tradename 20,400 (8,466) 11,934 9.8 Patents 4,076 (1,553) 2,523 14.0 Total Intangible assets $ 111,943 $ (87,967) $ 23,976 6.7 As of December 31, 2024 Gross Carrying Amount Accumulated Amortization Net Carrying Amount Weighted-Average Useful Lives (in years) Developed technology $ 73,367 $ (60,896) $ 12,471 5.9 Customer relationships 14,100 (14,100) — 4.0 Tradename 20,400 (7,966) 12,434 9.8 Patents 4,076 (1,480) 2,596 14.0 Total Intangible assets $ 111,943 $ (84,442) $ 27,501 6.7 Amortization expense related to intangible assets was approximately $3.5 million and $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company recorded amortization of developed technology in Cost ofrevenue, platform, amortization of customer relationships and tradename in Sales and marketing expenses, and amortizationof patents in General and administrative expenses in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented. As of March 31, 2025, the estimated future amortization expense for intangible assets for the next five years andthereafter is as follows (in thousands): Year Ending December 31, 2025 (remaining 9 months) $ 9,008 2026 4,074 2027 2,737 2028 2,291 2029 2,291 Thereafter 3,575 Total $ 23,976 10
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Table of Contents 5. BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS Accounts Receivable, net: Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Accounts receivable, gross $ 700,427 $ 885,167 Less: Allowances Allowance for sales returns 5,366 6,427 Allowance for sales incentives 41,039 63,367 Allowance for doubtful accounts 3,080 1,895 Other allowances 755 968 Total allowances 50,240 72,657 Accounts receivable, net $ 650,187 $ 812,510 Property and Equipment, net: Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Computers and equipment $ 52,740 $ 51,741 Leasehold improvements 285,871 286,585 Internal-use software 5,916 5,916 Office equipment and furniture 36,007 35,691 Property and equipment, gross 380,534 379,933 Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization (176,915) (166,243) Property and equipment, net $ 203,619 $ 213,690 Depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment assets for the three months ended March 31, 2025and 2024 was approximately $11.7 million and $12.8 million, respectively. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recorded impairment charges of $0.5 million related to property and equipment associated with the leased office facilities that are part of its restructuring efforts. See Note 16 to thecondensed consolidated financial statements for additional details. Impairment charges related to property and equipmentduring the three months ended March 31, 2025 were not significant. Accrued Liabilities: Accrued liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Revenue share payable $ 280,578 $ 267,163 Accrued cost of revenue 126,846 149,135 Marketing, retail, and merchandising expenses 52,631 112,001 Operating lease liability, current 81,034 79,221 Content liability, current 61,481 69,710 Other accrued expenses 186,188 175,569 Total Accrued liabilities $ 788,758 $ 852,799 11
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Table of Contents Deferred Revenue: Deferred revenue consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Platform, current $ 85,436 $ 75,026 Devices, current 30,403 30,692 Total deferred revenue, current 115,839 105,718 Platform, non-current — — Devices, non-current 25,122 25,050 Total deferred revenue, non-current 25,122 25,050 Total Deferred revenue $ 140,961 $ 130,768 Other Long-term Liabilities: Other Long-term liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Content liability, non-current $ 12,236 $ 18,453 Other long-term liabilities 21,550 22,485 Total Other long-term liabilities $ 33,786 $ 40,938 6. CONTENT ASSETS Content assets, net consisted of the following (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Licensed content, net and advances $ 136,001 $ 152,851 Produced content: Released, less amortization 67,827 65,990 Completed, not released 14,571 23,267 In production 11,896 7,565 Total produced content, net 94,294 96,822 Total Content assets, net and advances $ 230,295 $ 249,673 Current portion (included in Prepaid expenses and other current assets) $ 2,433 $ 12,352 Non-current portion $ 227,862 $ 237,321 Amortization of content assets is included in Cost of revenue, platform in the condensed consolidated statements ofoperations and is as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Licensed content $ 37,661 $ 37,001 Produced content 10,383 10,890 Total amortization costs $ 48,044 $ 47,891 12
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Table of Contents 7. STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS Investment in Convertible Promissory Notes In June 2022, the Company agreed to provide financing of up to $60.0 million in the aggregate to a counterparty withwhom the Company has a commercial relationship. The advances are in the form of convertible promissory notes and are included in Other non-current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The convertible promissory notesaccrue interest at 5% per annum, and have maturity dates as reflected in the table below or are due upon a redemption eventor in the event of a default. The convertible promissory notes and their date of investment and maturity are as follows (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 Date of Investment Amount of Investment Date of Maturity June 15, 2022 $40,000 June 15, 2025 March 23, 2023 $5,000 March 23, 2026 May 23, 2023 $5,000 May 23, 2026 The convertible promissory notes contain certain redemption features that meet the definition of embedded derivativesand require bifurcation. The Company elected to apply the fair value option and account for the hybrid instrument containingthe host contract and the embedded derivatives at fair value as a single instrument, with any subsequent changes in fair value included in Other income, net in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. See Note 8 to the condensedconsolidated financial statements for additional details on the fair value of the convertible promissory notes. Investment in Preferred Stock In September 2024, the Company invested $20.0 million in cash in exchange for preferred stock in a privately-heldcompany. The Company elected to apply the measurement alternative for equity securities without readily determinable fairvalues as there are no quoted market prices for the preferred stock. The investment is measured at cost and adjusted to fair value when there is an observable price change from orderly transactions of identical or similar investments, and assessed forimpairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. There were noadjustments recognized in the three months ended March 31, 2025. As of March 31, 2025, the carrying value of the Company’s investment was $20.0 million, and is included within Other non-current assets on the condensed consolidatedbalance sheet. 8. FAIR VALUE DISCLOSURE The Company’s financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis are as follows (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 Fair Value Level 1 Level 3 Assets: Cash and cash equivalents: Cash $ 888,659 $ 888,659 $ — Money market funds 1,367,494 1,367,494 — Restricted cash, current 403 403 — Other non-current assets: Strategic investment - convertible promissory notes 48,941 — 48,941 Total assets measured and recorded at fair value $ 2,305,497 $ 2,256,556 $ 48,941 13
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Table of Contents As of December 31, 2024 Fair Value Level 1 Level 3 Assets: Cash and cash equivalents: Cash $ 794,213 $ 794,213 $ — Money market funds 1,366,023 1,366,023 — Restricted cash, current 403 403 — Other non-current assets: Strategic investment - convertible promissory notes 55,225 — 55,225 Total assets measured and recorded at fair value $ 2,215,864 $ 2,160,639 $ 55,225 The following table reflects the changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial assets (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Beginning balance $ 55,225 $ 53,816 Change in estimated fair value of strategic investment - convertible promissory notes (6,284) 574 Ending balance $ 48,941 $ 54,390 Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in the principal market (or most advantageous market, in the absence of a principal market) for the asset or liability in an orderly transactionbetween market participants at the measurement date. Further, the Company maximizes the use of observable inputs andminimizes the use of unobservable inputs in measuring fair value and utilizes a three-level fair value hierarchy that prioritizesthe inputs used to measure fair value. The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows: Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Financial assets and liabilities measuredusing Level 1 inputs include cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, prepaid expenses, accountspayable and accrued liabilities. Level 2—Observable inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1, including quoted prices for similar assetsor liabilities in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active; andinputs other than quoted prices that are observable or are derived principally from, or corroborated by, observable marketdata by correlation or other means. The Company did not have any Level 2 instruments as of March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity, are significant to the fair value of theassets or liabilities and reflect the Company’s own assumptions about the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. As of March 31, 2025, the Company measured its strategic investment in convertible promissory notes using Level 3inputs. The fair value of the strategic investment in convertible promissory notes on the date of purchase was determined tobe equal to its principal amount. The Company recorded an unrealized loss of $6.3 million and an unrealized gain of $0.6 million in Other income, net related to the change in the fair value of the strategic investment in convertible promissory notesduring the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company classified the strategic investment in convertible promissory notes as Level 3 due to the lack of relevantobservable market data over fair value inputs. The fair value of the strategic investment in convertible promissory notes was estimated using a scenario-based probability weighted discounted cash flow model. Significant assumptions include thediscount rate, and the timing and probability weighting of the various redemption scenarios that impact the settlement of thestrategic investment in convertible promissory notes. Assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis Non-financial assets such as goodwill, intangible assets, property and equipment, operating lease right-of-use assets,and content assets are evaluated for impairment and adjusted to fair value using Level 3 inputs, only when impairment isrecognized. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded impairment charges of $2.9 million related tooperating lease right-of-use assets associated with the leased office facilities that are part of its restructuring efforts. Duringthe three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company recorded impairment charges of $0.5 million related to property andequipment, and $0.6 million related to operating lease right-of-use assets, both associated with the leased 14
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Table of Contents office facilities that are part of its restructuring efforts. See Note 16 to the condensed consolidated financial statements foradditional details. 9. LEASES The Company has entered into operating leases primarily for office real estate. The leases have remaining termsranging from less than one year to nine years and may include options to extend or terminate the lease. The depreciable lifeof operating lease right-of-use assets is limited by the expected lease term. The components of lease expense are as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Operating lease expense $ 17,797 $ 18,133 Variable lease expense 6,086 5,522 Sublease income (5,114) (910) Total operating lease expense $ 18,769 $ 22,745 Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: Operating cash outflows from operating leases $ 24,688 $ 21,257 Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations: Operating leases $ 2,260 $ — Decrease in operating lease right-of-use assets due to impairment (See Note 16 for details) $ 2,870 $ 576 Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases is as follows (in thousands, except lease term and discount rate): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 Operating lease right-of-use assets $ 292,146 $ 304,505 Operating lease liability, current (included in Accrued liabilities) 81,034 79,221 Operating lease liability, non-current 496,084 512,706 Total operating lease liability $ 577,118 $ 591,927 Weighted-average remaining term for operating leases (in years) 6.8 7.0 Weighted-average discount rate for operating leases 3.99 % 3.98 % 15
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Table of Contents Future lease payments under operating leases as of March 31, 2025 are as follows (in thousands): Year Ending December 31, Operating Leases 2025 (remaining 9 months) $ 76,561 2026 103,655 2027 101,627 2028 99,997 2029 96,380 Thereafter 185,718 Total future lease payments 663,938 Less: imputed interest (83,561) Less: expected tenant improvement allowance (3,259) Total $ 577,118 Total lease liabilities include liabilities related to operating lease right-of-use assets which were included in theimpairment charges as part of the Company’s restructuring efforts. See Note 16 for additional details. Non-cancelable sublease proceeds for the fiscal years ending December 31, 2025 (remaining 9 months), 2026,2027, 2028, and 2029 of $13.3 million, $18.6 million, $18.8 million, $18.8 million, and $12.0 million, respectively, are not included in the table above. As of March 31, 2025, the Company had approximately $5.1 million in commitments relating to operating leases thathave not yet commenced. 10. DEBT On September 16, 2024, the Company entered into a Credit Agreement, by and among the Company, as borrower, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries, as guarantors, the lenders and issuing banks party thereto, and with Citibank N.A., asadministrative agent (the “Credit Agreement”), which provides for (i) a five-year revolving credit facility in an aggregateprincipal amount of up to $300.0 million, and (ii) an uncommitted increase option of up to an additional $300.0 millionexercisable upon the satisfaction of certain customary conditions. The Credit Agreement provides for a $100.0 million sub- facility for the issuance of letters of credit, and certain existing letters of credit were deemed outstanding under this facility.The Credit Agreement will mature on September 16, 2029. Proceeds from the Credit Agreement may be used for generalcorporate purposes, including to finance working capital requirements. The Company’s obligations under the Credit Agreement are secured by substantially all the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries that are guarantors under the Credit Agreement. The Company may prepay, and in certain circumstanceswould be required to prepay, loans under the Credit Agreement without payment of a premium. The Credit Agreement alsocontains customary representations and warranties, customary affirmative and negative covenants, financial covenantsrequiring the maintenance of a minimum interest coverage ratio and a maximum total net leverage ratio, as well as customary events of default, the occurrence of which could result in amounts borrowed under the Credit Agreement becoming due andpayable and remaining commitments terminated prior to its scheduled September 16, 2029 termination date. Debt issuance costs incurred in connection with the Company’s Credit Agreement, which are recorded in Prepaid expenses and other current assets and Other non-current assets, are amortized over the five-year term and recognized as acomponent of interest expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. The Company had outstanding letters of credit secured by the Credit Agreement of $39.7 million as of March 31, 2025.As of March 31, 2025, the Company had not borrowed against the Credit Agreement, and the Company was in compliance with all of the covenants of the Credit Agreement. 11. STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY Preferred Stock The Company has 10 million shares of undesignated preferred stock authorized but not issued with rights andpreferences determined by the Company’s Board of Directors at the time of issuance of such shares. As of March 31, 2025and December 31, 2024, there were no shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding. (2) (1) (1) (2) 16
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Table of Contents Common Stock The Company has two classes of authorized common stock, Class A common stock and Class B common stock. Holders of Class A common stock are entitled to one vote for each share of Class A common stock held on all matterssubmitted to a vote of stockholders and holders of Class B common stock are entitled to ten votes for each share of Class Bcommon stock held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Except with respect to voting, the rights of the holdersof Class A and Class B common stock are identical. Shares of Class B common stock are voluntarily convertible into shares of Class A common stock at the option of the holder and are generally automatically converted into shares of the Company’sClass A common stock upon sale or transfer. Shares issued in connection with exercises of stock options or vesting ofrestricted stock units are generally automatically converted into shares of the Company’s Class A common stock. Common Stock Reserved for Issuance As of March 31, 2025, the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance in the future is as follows (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 Common stock awards granted under equity incentive plans 13,154 Common stock awards available for issuance under the 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan 5,089 Common stock awards available for issuance under the 2017 Amended and Restated Equity Incentive Plan 40,044 Total reserved shares of common stock 58,287 The Company has not issued any common stock pursuant to the 2017 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Equity Incentive Plans The Company currently grants equity awards under the Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2017 Plan”). The 2017 Plan became effective September 2017 in connection with the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”). The2017 Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options to the Company’s employees and for the grant of non-statutorystock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, performance stock awards,performance cash awards, and other forms of equity compensation to the Company’s employees, directors and consultants. The outstanding equity relates to the 2017 Plan and the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (“2008 Plan”), a pre-IPO plan. Noadditional equity grants have been made pursuant to the 2008 Plan subsequent to the IPO. The equity awards granted under the 2017 Plan vest subject to continuous service. Stock options granted under the2017 Plan generally are granted at a price per share equivalent to the fair market value on the date of grant. Recipients of incentive stock option grants who possess more than 10% of the combined voting power of the Company are subject tocertain limitations, and incentive stock options granted to such recipients are at a price no less than 110% of the fair marketvalue at the date of grant. Restricted Stock Units Restricted stock unit activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025 is as follows (in thousands, except per sharedata): Number of Shares Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value per Share Balance as of December 31, 2024 8,657 $ 74.80 Awarded 188 78.51 Released (1,064) 96.49 Forfeited (235) 78.56 Balance as of March 31, 2025 7,546 $ 71.71 As of March 31, 2025, the Company had $437.1 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related tounvested restricted stock units that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 1.7 years. * * 17
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Table of Contents Stock Options Stock option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2025 is as follows (in thousands, except per share data and years): Number of Shares Weighted- Average Exercise Price Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) Aggregate Intrinsic Value Balance as of December 31, 2024 5,759 $ 75.24 6.6 Granted 11 74.49 — Exercised (162) 15.00 — Forfeited and expired — — — Balance as of March 31, 2025 5,608 $ 76.88 6.5 $ 81,821 Options exercisable as of March 31, 2025 4,108 $ 79.32 5.8 $ 65,330 As of March 31, 2025, the Company had $47.6 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related tounvested stock options that is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 1.7 years. Stock-based Compensation The Company measures the cost of employee services received in exchange for an equity award based on the grantdate fair value of the award. Stock options granted to employees generally vest over one to four years and have a term of ten years. Restricted stock units generally vest over one to four years. The following table presents the total stock-based compensation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2025and 2024 (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Cost of revenue, platform $ 384 $ 414 Cost of revenue, devices 70 899 Research and development 35,858 37,590 Sales and marketing 34,786 32,521 General and administrative 24,396 23,208 Total stock-based compensation $ 95,494 $ 94,632 12. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Purchase Commitments The Company has non-cancelable purchase commitments with various parties to purchase products and services suchas licensed intellectual property and content, manufacturing supplier agreements, and data center capacity and other goodsand services. The following table presents details of the aggregate future non-cancelable purchase commitments as of March 31, 2025 (in thousands): Years Ended December 31, Total Remaining2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 Thereafter Content $ 191,776 $ 111,030 $ 50,489 $ 14,329 $ 10,410 $ 3,373 $ 2,145 Manufacturing 134,764 134,764 — — — — — Other obligations 167,993 97,144 69,444 1,405 — — — Total commitments $ 494,533 $ 342,938 $ 119,933 $ 15,734 $ 10,410 $ 3,373 $ 2,145 18
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Table of Contents Contingencies The Company accounts for loss contingencies, including liabilities for intellectual property licensing and other claims,when it believes such losses are probable and reasonably estimable. These contingencies are reviewed at least quarterly andadjusted to reflect the impact of negotiations, estimated settlements, legal rulings, advice of legal counsel, and otherinformation and events. The resolution of these contingencies and of other legal proceedings can be, however, inherently unpredictable and subject to significant uncertainties. The Company is, and may become, subject to various lawsuits, stockholder derivative actions, class action lawsuits,individual or mass arbitration proceedings, and other types of legal proceedings, as well as other disputes, claims, and regulatory or governmental inquiries and investigations in the ordinary course of business, relating to commercial, contract,consumer protection, privacy, data protection, intellectual property, tax, employment, corporate governance, and othermatters. Although the results of these legal proceedings, disputes, claims, and inquiries and investigations cannot bepredicted with certainty, the Company does not believe that the final outcome of any matters that it is currently involved in is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, or results of operations. Regardless ofthe outcome, such legal proceedings, disputes, claims, and inquiries and investigations can have an adverse impact on theCompany because of legal fees, other litigation costs, and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, reputationalharm, and other factors. During the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company did not have any loss contingencies that were material. Indemnification In the ordinary course of business, the Company has entered into contractual arrangements which provide indemnification provisions of varying scope and terms to business partners and other parties with respect to certain matters,including, but not limited to, losses arising out of the Company’s breach of such agreements and out of intellectual propertyinfringement claims made by third parties. The Company’s obligations under these agreements may be limited in terms oftime or amount, and in some instances, the Company may have recourse against third parties for certain payments. In addition, the Company has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and certain of its officers that will requireit, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service asdirectors or officers. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these indemnification obligations due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each agreement. To date, theCompany has not incurred any material costs as a result of such obligations and has not accrued any liabilities related to suchobligations in the condensed consolidated financial statements. 13. INCOME TAXES Income tax benefit was $13.1 million and income tax expense was $4.8 million for the three months ended March 31,2025 and 2024, respectively. The decrease in income tax expense to reflect an income tax benefit for the three months endedMarch 31, 2025 is primarily attributable to current U.S. income tax benefit expected to be realized during the year from year- to-date losses. A valuation allowance must be established for deferred tax assets when it is more likely than not that they will not berealized. As of March 31, 2025, the Company analyzed all available objective evidence, both positive and negative, andbelieves it is more-likely-than-not that some deferred tax assets will not be realizable. Accordingly, the Company continues to provide a valuation allowance against its U.S. deferred tax assets. 14. NET LOSS PER SHARE The Company’s basic net loss per share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number ofshares of common stock outstanding for the period. The Company uses the two-class method to calculate net loss per share. Except with respect to certain voting, conversion, and transfer rights and as otherwise expressly provided in the Company’samended and restated certificate of incorporation or required by applicable law, shares of the Company’s Class A commonstock and Class B common stock have the same rights and privileges and rank equally, share ratably, and are identical in all respects as to all matters. Accordingly, basic and diluted net loss per share are the same for both classes. For purposes of the calculation of diluted net loss per share, options to purchase common stock and restricted stockunits are considered common stock equivalents. Dilutive shares of common stock are determined by applying the treasurystock method. 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Table of Contents The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share (in thousands, except per sharedata): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Numerator: Net loss $ (27,431) $ (50,855) Denominator: Weighted-average common shares outstanding — basic and diluted 146,197 143,751 Net loss per share — basic and diluted $ (0.19) $ (0.35) Common stock equivalents (comprised of stock options and restricted stock units) excluded from the calculation ofdiluted net loss per share because of their anti-dilutive effect were 13.2 million and 12.8 million shares for the three monthsended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. 15. SEGMENT INFORMATION An operating segment is defined as a component of an entity for which discrete financial information is available that isevaluated regularly by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) for purposes of allocating resources and evaluatingfinancial performance. The CODM evaluates performance and makes decisions about allocating resources to its operating segments based on financial information presented on a consolidated basis and on gross profit for each operating segment.For both the Platform and Devices reportable segments, Cost of revenue is the significant segment expense that is regularlyprovided to the CODM. While not considered significant segment expenses, the Company has separately disclosed content amortization (refer to Note 6) and stock-based compensation expense (refer to Note 11) charged to Cost of revenue, platform. The Companydisclosed charges related to the inventory provision and inventory losses on purchase commitments (refer to Note 2) andstock-based compensation expense (refer to Note 11) included within Cost of revenue, devices. The Company reports its financial results consistent with the manner in which financial information is viewed by management for decision-making purposes. The Company does not manage operating expenses such as research anddevelopment, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses at the segment level. The Company does notallocate property and equipment or any other assets or capital expenditures to reportable segments. Descriptions of the Company’s two reportable segments are as follows: Platform Platform revenue is generated from the sale of digital advertising (including direct and programmatic video advertising, ads integrated into the Company’s user interface, and related services), as well as streaming services distribution (includingsubscription and transaction revenue shares, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons onremote controls). Devices Devices revenue is generated from the sale of streaming players, Roku-branded TVs, smart home products andservices, audio products, and related accessories. Customers accounting for 10% or more of segment revenue, net, were as follows: Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Platform segment revenue: Customer J 13 % * Devices segment revenue: Customer A 17 % 23 % Customer B 27 % 17 % Customer C 28 % 29 % Customer K 15 % * * Less than 10% 20
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Table of Contents Revenue by geography is determined based on the location where the Company’s products and services are delivered. Revenue in international markets was less than 10% in each of the periods presented. Long-lived assets, net The following table presents long-lived assets, net, which consist primarily of property and equipment and operatinglease right-of-use assets, by geographic area (in thousands): As of March 31, 2025 December 31, 2024 United States $ 386,421 $ 401,464 United Kingdom 85,762 92,110 Other countries 23,582 24,621 Total $ 495,765 $ 518,195 16. RESTRUCTURING CHARGES The Company began efforts to reduce its operating expense growth rate due to economic conditions in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. During fiscal 2023, the Company implemented additional measures, including consolidating its officespace utilization, performing a strategic review of its content portfolio, reducing outside services expenses, and slowing itsyear-over-year headcount expense growth rate through a workforce reduction and limiting new hires, among other measures. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the Company recorded restructuring charges associated withdecisions to sub-lease and cease the use of certain office facilities. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, theCompany recorded restructuring charges associated with employee termination expenses consisting primarily of severancepayments, employee benefits contributions, payroll taxes and related costs, and impairment charges related to decisions tosub-lease and cease the use of certain office facilities and related property and equipment. Restructuring charges are recorded as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 Facilities ExitCosts AssetImpairmentCharges Total EmployeeTerminationsFacilities ExitCosts AssetImpairmentCharges Total Cost of revenue, platform $ — $ — $ — $ (10) $ — $ — $ (10) Cost of revenue, devices — — — 1 — 5 6 Research and development 194 2,133 2,327 383 37 533 953 Sales and marketing — 175 175 686 2 173 861 General and administrative — 562 562 (130) (24) 140 (14) Total restructuring charges $ 194 $ 2,870 $ 3,064 $ 930 $ 15 $ 851 $ 1,796 The asset impairment charges for the three months ended March 31, 2025 were primarily comprised of $2.9 million of operating lease right-of-use assets impairment. The asset impairment charges for the three months ended March 31, 2024include $0.6 million of operating lease right-of-use assets impairment and $0.5 million of property and equipment impairment, partially offset by $0.3 million of adjustments to other long-term liabilities and assets. A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balance of employee termination restructuring charges and facilities exit costs, which are included in Accrued liabilities in the condensed consolidated balance sheets, is as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 EmployeeTerminations Facilities ExitCosts Total EmployeeTerminations Facilities ExitCosts Total Beginning balance $ — $ 1,381 $ 1,381 $ 12,661 $ 1,198 $ 13,859 Restructuring charges incurred — 194 194 930 15 945 Payments made — (258) (258) (11,248) (309) (11,557) Ending balance $ — $ 1,317 $ 1,317 $ 2,343 $ 904 $ 3,247 21
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Table of Contents 17. SUBSEQUENT EVENT On April 30, 2025, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Frndly TV, Inc., a subscription streaming servicethat offers live TV, on-demand video and cloud-based DVR for an affordable price. The total purchase price for the acquisitionwill be $185 million, to be paid in cash, which includes $75 million to be held back and paid upon the achievement of certain financial and operating metrics and milestones over the two years following closing of the acquisition. The Company expectsthe transaction to close in the second quarter of 2025. 22
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Table of Contents Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and withour audited consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed onFebruary 14, 2025 with the SEC. Overview Our two reportable segments are the platform segment and the devices segment. Platform revenue is generated fromthe sale of digital advertising (including direct and programmatic video advertising, ads integrated into our user interface(“UI”), and related services) and streaming services distribution (including subscription and transaction revenue shares, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons on remote controls). Devices revenue is generated from the sale of streaming players, Roku-branded TVs, smart home products andservices, audio products, and related accessories. We expect to continue to manage the average selling prices of Rokustreaming devices in an effort to sell more devices, which we believe will increase our Streaming Households. We expect that this trade off from devices gross profit or loss to grow Streaming Households should result in increased platform revenue andplatform gross profit over time. Business Conditions and Macroeconomic Factors Our business is subject to risks related to the evolving macroeconomic environment, including the effects of increased volatility in financial markets, higher inflation and interest rates, potential economic slowdown or recession, geopoliticaldevelopments, and changes in economic or government policies, including the unknown impact of tariffs. While we intend toremain vigilant in monitoring the impacts of these circumstances on our business and adapt accordingly, the effects of thesemacroeconomic factors on our business, results of operations, and financial condition remain uncertain. See Item 1A, Risk Factors, and the Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements elsewhere in this Quarterly Report for additional details. Key Performance Metrics and Non-GAAP Measures Since our IPO in 2017, the streaming TV industry has evolved meaningfully, with Americans now spending significantly more TV time streaming than watching cable. Our business has also grown and evolved, and we are now primarily focusedon growing Platform revenue and profitability. As a result and as previously disclosed, starting in the first quarter of 2025, wehave updated our Key Performance Metrics (KPMs) to better align with these priorities. The key performance metrics we use to evaluate our business, measure our performance, develop financial forecasts and make strategic decisions are Streaming Hours, Platform Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes,Depreciation and Amortization (Adjusted EBITDA), and Free Cash Flow. Streaming Hours We believe the number of Streaming Hours on our platform is an effective measure of user engagement and that the growth in the number of hours of content streamed across our platform reflects our success in addressing the growing userdemand for TV streaming. We define Streaming Hours as the aggregate amount of time Roku streaming devices streamcontent on our platform in a given period. Hours streamed from The Roku Channel on non-Roku platforms are not included inthis metric. Additionally, smart home products do not contribute to our Streaming Hours. Additionally, we believe that over time, increasing user engagement on our streaming platform increases our platformmonetization because we earn platform revenue from various forms of user engagement, including advertising, as well asrevenue shares from subscriptions and transactional video on-demand. However, our revenue from content partners is not tied to the hours streamed on their streaming apps, and the number of Streaming Hours does not correlate to revenue earnedfrom such content partners or ARPU on a period-by-period basis. Moreover, Streaming Hours on our platform are measuredwhenever a Roku streaming device is streaming content, whether a viewer is actively watching or not. For example, if a Rokuplayer is connected to a TV, and the viewer turns off the TV, steps away, or falls asleep and does not stop or pause the player, then the particular streaming app may continue to play content for a period of time determined by the streaming app. Webelieve that this also occurs across a wide variety of non-Roku streaming devices and other set-top boxes. Since 2020, all of our Roku streaming devices include a Roku TV OS feature that is designed to identify when contenthas been continuously streaming on an app for an extended period of time without user interaction. This feature, which we refer to as “Are you still watching,” periodically prompts the user to confirm that they are still watching the selected app andcloses the app if the user does not respond affirmatively. We believe that the implementation of this feature across the Rokuplatform benefits us, our customers, content partners, and advertisers. Some of our leading content partners, including Netflix,also have implemented similar features within their apps. This Roku TV OS feature supplements these app features. This feature has not had and is not expected to have a material impact on our financial performance. We streamed 35.8 billion and 30.8 billion hours during the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively,reflecting an increase of 16%. 23
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Table of Contents Platform Revenue We use Platform revenue as a primary metric to measure the performance of our business because it represents our ability to successfully monetize our platform. Platform revenue growth is one of our strategic priorities. Platform revenue was$880.8 million and $754.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP Measure) We use Adjusted EBITDA as a primary metric to measure the performance of our business because it represents ourability to successfully manage profitability. Our goal is to grow Adjusted EBITDA over time, driving continued growth instockholder value. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Adjusted EBITDA reconciliation excludes total other income,net, stock-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, restructuring charges, and income tax (benefit)expense from the net loss of the period. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful as a supplement in evaluating our ongoingoperational performance and enhancing an overall understanding of our past financial performance. However, this non-GAAPfinancial measure has limitations, and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our GAAP financialinformation, such as GAAP net loss. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled metrics of othercompanies due to differences in methods of calculation. The following table presents a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financialmeasure for each of the periods indicated (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Net loss $ (27,431) $ (50,855) Total other income, net (17,216) (25,946) Stock-based compensation 95,494 94,632 Depreciation and amortization 15,192 16,473 Restructuring charges 3,064 1,796 Income tax (benefit) expense (13,083) 4,765 Adjusted EBITDA $ 56,020 $ 40,865 Restructuring charges for the three months ended March 31, 2025 include asset impairment charges of $2.9 million and facilities exitcosts of $0.2 million. Restructuring charges for the three months ended March 31, 2024 include severance and related charges of $0.9million, asset impairment charges of $0.9 million, and facilities exit costs of less than $0.1 million. Free Cash Flow (Non-GAAP Measure) We use Free Cash Flow as a primary metric to measure the performance of our business because we believemaximizing Free Cash Flow helps indicate the financial strength of our business, as well as provide an indication of cashgenerated or (used) by the business. Our goal is to continuously increase Free Cash Flow over time. We define Free Cash Flow as our trailing 12-month (“TTM”) cash flows from operating activities excluding purchases of property and equipment andthe effects of exchange rates on cash. Our Free Cash Flow was $298.4 million and $426.8 million for the TTM periods ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Free Cash Flow is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Free Cash Flow reconciliation excludes purchases of propertyand equipment and effects of exchange rates on cash from the cash flows from operating activities, in each case whereapplicable. We believe Free Cash Flow is useful as a supplement in evaluating our ongoing operational performance and enhancing an overall understanding of our past financial performance. However, this non-GAAP financial measure haslimitations, and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our GAAP financial information, such as GAAPcash flows from operating activities. For additional information about cash flows from operating activities, see “Liquidity andCapital Resources” below. In addition, Free Cash Flow may not be comparable to similarly titled metrics of other companies due to differences in methods of calculation. The following table presents a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow to the most directly comparable GAAP financialmeasure for each of the periods indicated (in thousands): (1) (1) 24
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Table of Contents Trailing Twelve Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Net cash provided by operating activities $ 310,094 $ 455,951 Less: Purchases of property and equipment (6,320) (29,048) Add/(Less): Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restrictedcash (5,328) (149) Free cash flow (TTM) $ 298,446 $ 426,754 Components of Results of Operations Revenue Platform Revenue We generate platform revenue from the sale of digital advertising (including direct and programmatic video advertising,ads integrated into our UI, and related services), as well as streaming services distribution (including subscription andtransaction revenue shares, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons on remote controls). Ourad inventory includes video ad inventory from AVOD content in The Roku Channel, native display ads throughout the Roku Experience, as well as ad inventory we obtain through our streaming services distribution agreements with our contentpartners. To supplement supply, we purchase advertising inventory from our content partners, on an as needed basis. Todate, we have generated most of our platform revenue in the United States. Devices Revenue We generate devices revenue from the sale of streaming players, Roku-branded TVs, smart home products andservices, audio products, and related accessories. We generate most of our devices revenue in the United States. In ourinternational markets, we primarily sell our devices through wholesale distributors which, in turn, sell to retailers. Cost of Revenue Cost of Revenue, Platform Cost of revenue, platform primarily consists of costs associated with acquiring advertising inventory, content amortization costs for both licensed and produced content, costs for licensed premium subscriptions, and revenue sharepayments on licensed content. Cost of revenue, platform also includes other costs such as payment processing fees,allocated expenses associated with the delivery of our services that primarily include costs of third-party cloud services andsalaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation for our platform operations personnel, and amortization of acquired developed technology. Cost of Revenue, Devices Cost of revenue, devices is comprised mostly of manufacturing costs payable to third-party manufacturers for deviceswe sell which include streaming players, Roku-branded TVs, audio products and smart home products. Cost of revenue, devices also includes technology licenses or royalty fees on devices we sell, inbound and outbound freight, duty and logisticscosts, third-party packaging, inventory provisions, and allocated overhead costs related to facilities, third-party cloud services,and salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation for operations personnel. Operating and Other Expenses Research and Development Research and development expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation for ourdevelopment teams as well as outsourced development expenses. In addition, research and development expenses include allocated facilities and overhead expenses. Sales and Marketing Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits, commissions, and stock-based compensation for our employees engaged in sales and sales support, marketing, communications, data science and analytics, businessdevelopment, product management, and partner support functions. Sales and marketing expenses also include marketing,retail and merchandising expenses, consulting and outside services, and allocated facilities and overhead expenses. General and Administrative General and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits, and stock-based compensation for ourfinance, legal, information technology, human resources, and other administrative personnel. General and administrativeexpenses also include outside legal, accounting, and other professional service fees as well as allocated facilities andoverhead expenses. 25
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Table of Contents Other Income, Net Other income, net primarily consists of interest income on cash and cash equivalents, foreign currency remeasurement, transaction gains and losses, and net change in the fair value of our strategic investments. Income Tax (Benefit) Expense Our income tax (benefit) expense consists primarily of income tax expense in certain foreign jurisdictions where weconduct business and income tax (benefit) expense in the United States. We have a full valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets in the United States, and expect to maintain this valuation allowance for the foreseeable future. Results of Operations The following table sets forth selected condensed consolidated statements of operations data as a percentage of total revenue for each of the periods indicated. Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Net revenue: Platform 86 % 86 % Devices 14 % 14 % Total net revenue 100 % 100 % Cost of revenue: Platform 41 % 41 % Devices 16 % 15 % Total cost of revenue 57 % 56 % Gross profit (loss): Platform 45 % 45 % Devices (2)% (1)% Total gross profit 43 % 44 % Operating expenses: Research and development 18 % 20 % Sales and marketing 22 % 23 % General and administrative 9 % 9 % Total operating expenses 49 % 52 % Loss from operations (6)% (8)% Other income, net: Interest expense — % — % Other income, net 2 % 3 % Total other income, net 2 % 3 % Loss before income taxes (4)% (5)% Income tax (benefit) expense (1)% 1 % Net loss (3)% (6)% 26
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Table of Contents Comparison of the Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 Net Revenue Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Change $ Change % (in thousands, except percentages) Platform $ 880,817 $ 754,935 $ 125,882 17 % Devices 139,855 126,534 13,321 11 % Total net revenue $ 1,020,672 $ 881,469 $ 139,203 16 % Platform Platform revenue increased by $125.9 million, or 17%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared tothe three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily due to higher revenue from streaming servicesdistribution, specifically increased revenue share on content subscriptions and higher Premium Subscriptions revenue, in addition to higher advertising revenue, despite continued weakness in the media and entertainment vertical. Devices Devices revenue increased by $13.3 million, or 11%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared tothe three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily due to higher revenue from Roku-branded TVs. This waspartially offset by lower revenue from streaming players. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the average selling price of all devices shipped decreased by 2% and the volume of all devices shipped increased by 13% as compared to thethree months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease in average selling price was due to higher promotions on Roku-brandedTVs and streaming players. The increase in the volume of devices shipped was mainly due to higher sales of Roku-brandedTVs, and to a lesser extent higher sales of streaming players. Cost of Revenue and Gross Profit (Loss) Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Change $ Change % (in thousands, except percentages) Cost of revenue: Platform $ 416,506 $ 360,566 $ 55,940 16 % Devices 159,121 132,612 26,509 20 % Total cost of revenue $ 575,627 $ 493,178 $ 82,449 17 % Gross profit (loss): Platform $ 464,311 $ 394,369 $ 69,942 18 % Devices (19,266) (6,078) (13,188) 217 % Total gross profit $ 445,045 $ 388,291 $ 56,754 15 % Platform The Cost of revenue, platform increased by $55.9 million, or 16%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher costs of acquiring contentand higher costs of Premium Subscriptions. Gross profit for the platform segment increased by $69.9 million, or 18%, during the three months ended March 31,2025 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily driven by the overall growth in our platform revenue. Devices The Cost of revenue, devices increased by $26.5 million, or 20%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 ascompared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher manufacturing costs of$17.4 million, driven by the higher cost of manufacturing Roku-branded TVs, and higher freight costs of $13.0 million. Gross loss for the devices segment increased by $13.2 million, or 217%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily driven by Roku-branded TVs representing a higherproportion of device sales. We manage the average selling prices of our products to grow our Streaming 27
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Table of Contents Households, which we expect should result in increased platform revenue and platform gross profit over time. Operating Expenses Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Change $ Change % (in thousands, except percentages) Research and development $ 184,579 $ 180,459 $ 4,120 2 % Sales and marketing 223,693 202,124 21,569 11 % General and administrative 94,503 77,744 16,759 22 % Total operating expenses $ 502,775 $ 460,327 $ 42,448 9 % Research and development Research and development expenses increased by $4.1 million, or 2%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher consulting expenses of$5.2 million. Sales and marketing Sales and marketing expenses increased by $21.6 million, or 11%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 ascompared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher marketing, retail, and merchandising expenses of $11.1 million and higher personnel-related expenses of $8.2 million. General and administrative General and administrative expenses increased by $16.8 million, or 22%, during the three months ended March 31,2025 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by higher legal and consulting expenses of $10.1 million and higher personnel-related expenses of $4.7 million. Other Income, Net Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Change $ Change % (in thousands, except percentages) Interest expense $ (433)$ (10) $ (423) nm Other income, net 17,649 25,956 $ (8,307) (32)% Total other income, net $ 17,216 $ 25,946 $ (8,730) (34)% Total other income, net, decreased by $8.7 million, or 34%, during the three months ended March 31, 2025 ascompared to the three months ended March 31, 2024. The decrease was primarily driven by the change in the fair value ofthe strategic investment in convertible promissory notes of $6.3 million and a decrease in interest income of $2.4 million fromlower interest rates on our cash balances. Income Tax (Benefit) Expense Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Change $ Change % (in thousands, except percentages) Income tax (benefit) expense $ (13,083)$ 4,765 $ (17,848) (375)% Income tax expense decreased by $17.8 million, to reflect an income tax benefit during the three months ended March31, 2025 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024, primarily due to U.S. current income tax benefit expected to be realized during the year as a result of year-to-date losses. Liquidity and Capital Resources As of March 31, 2025, we had cash and cash equivalents of $2,256.2 million. Approximately 4% of our cash was heldoutside the United States in accounts held by our foreign subsidiaries, which are used to fund foreign operations. 28
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Table of Contents Our primary sources of cash are receipts from platform and devices revenue. The primary uses of cash are costs ofrevenue including costs to acquire advertising inventory, costs to license and produce content, third-party manufacturing costs for our products, as well as operating expenses such as personnel-related expenses, consulting and professional serviceexpenses, facility expenses, and marketing expenses. Other uses of cash include purchases of property and equipment andmergers and acquisitions. We have pursued merger and acquisition activities in the past, and we may pursue additional merger and acquisition activities in the future, including the acquisition of rights to programming and content assets. Though we do not expect toincur expenses for facilities and building related costs at the same level as the last few fiscal years, we will continue to incurexpenses on the maintenance of our facilities and purchases of computer systems, and other property and equipment, inorder to support future growth in our business. These activities may materially impact our liquidity and capital resources. We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents balance, and our undrawn available balance under our CreditAgreement (as discussed below), will be sufficient to meet our working capital, capital expenditures, and material cashrequirements from known contractual obligations for the next twelve months and beyond. Our future capital requirements, theadequacy of available funds, and cash flows from operations could be affected by various risks, uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those detailed in Part II, Item 1A, Risk Factors in this Quarterly Report and the effects of the currentmacroeconomic environment. While the current macroeconomic environment has not severely impacted our liquidity andcapital resources to date, it has contributed to disruption and volatility in local economies and in capital and credit markets, which could adversely affect our liquidity and capital resources in the future. We may attempt to raise additional capital through the sale of equity securities or other financing arrangements. If weraise additional funds by issuing equity, the ownership of our existing stockholders will be diluted. If we raise additionalfinancing by the incurrence of indebtedness, we may be subject to fixed payment obligations and also to restrictive covenants. Additionally, we may be unable to obtain debt or equity financing on terms that are acceptable to us. Credit Agreement On September 16, 2024, we entered into a Credit Agreement, by and among the Company, as borrower, certain of oursubsidiaries, as guarantors, the lenders and issuing banks party thereto, and with Citibank N.A., as administrative agent (the“Credit Agreement”), which provides for (i) a five-year revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $300.0 million, and (ii) an uncommitted increase option of up to an additional $300.0 million exercisable upon the satisfaction ofcertain customary conditions. The Credit Agreement provides for a $100.0 million sub-facility for the issuance of letters ofcredit, and certain existing letters of credit were deemed outstanding under this facility. The Credit Agreement will mature onSeptember 16, 2029. Proceeds from the Credit Agreement may be used for general corporate purposes, including to finance working capital requirements. Our obligations under the Credit Agreement are secured by substantially all the assets of the Company and oursubsidiaries that are guarantors under the Credit Agreement. We may prepay, and in certain circumstances would be required to prepay, loans under the Credit Agreement without payment of a premium. The Credit Agreement also contains customaryrepresentations and warranties, customary affirmative and negative covenants, financial covenants requiring the maintenanceof a minimum interest coverage ratio and a maximum total net leverage ratio, as well as customary events of default, theoccurrence of which could result in amounts borrowed under the Credit Agreement becoming due and payable and remaining commitments terminated prior to its scheduled September 16, 2029 termination date. We had outstanding letters of credit secured by the Credit Agreement of $39.7 million as of March 31, 2025. As ofMarch 31, 2025, we had not borrowed against the Credit Agreement, and we were in compliance with all of the covenants ofthe Credit Agreement. Cash Flows The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented (in thousands): Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 March 31, 2024 Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Data: Cash flows provided by operating activities $ 138,732 $ 46,683 Cash flows used in investing activities $ (8,931) $ (672) Cash flows used in financing activities $ (36,072) $ (13,944) 29
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Table of Contents Cash Flows from Operating Activities Our operating activities provided cash of $138.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Our net loss of$27.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was adjusted by non-cash charges of $180.6 million comprised primarily of stock-based compensation, amortization of content assets, depreciation and amortization of property andequipment and intangible assets, amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets, fair value change of strategic investmentin convertible promissory notes, and impairment of assets as part of restructuring charges. The negative impact from changesin our operating assets and liabilities of $14.4 million was primarily due to decreases in accounts payable and accrued liabilities due to timing of payments, payments made to acquire content, and payments made for operating lease liabilities, aswell as an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets. This was partially offset by a decrease in accountsreceivable, a decrease in inventories, and an increase in deferred revenue. Cash Flows from Investing Activities Net cash used in investing activities of $8.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 included purchases of property and equipment of $1.9 million and a purchase of a strategic investment of $7.0 million. Cash Flows from Financing Activities Net cash used in financing activities of $36.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was primarily due totax payments of $38.5 million to net settle equity awards vested during the period, partially offset by proceeds from employeestock option exercises. Material Cash Requirements from Known Contractual Obligations For a description of our purchase obligations and operating lease obligations, refer to Note 12 and Note 9 to ourcondensed consolidated financial statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report, respectively. Critical Accounting Estimates Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reportedamounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, and related disclosures. These estimates and assumptions are based on historical experience, current trends, and other factors that we believe to be reasonable at the time our condensedconsolidated financial statements are prepared. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Therehave been no material changes to our critical accounting policies and estimates as compared to the critical accounting policies and estimates described in our Annual Report. Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk Interest Rate Fluctuation Risk Our exposure to interest rate risk relates to the interest income generated by cash and cash equivalents. The primary objective of our investment policy is to preserve principal while maximizing income without significantly increasing risk. Webelieve that an increase or decrease in interest rates of 100 basis points on our cash and cash equivalents balance wouldincrease or decrease our interest income by approximately $22.6 million. Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk Most of our revenue is generated within the United States and as such we have minimal foreign currency risk related toour revenue. Our foreign currency risk primarily relates to operating expenses, cash balances, and lease liabilitiesdenominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars, primarily British pounds and Euros. Our results of current and future operations and cash flows are, therefore, subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. We have experienced and will continue to experience fluctuations in our net loss as a result of transaction gains orlosses related to revaluing monetary asset and liability balances that are denominated in currencies other than the functionalcurrency of the entities in which they are recorded. We have not entered into any derivatives or other financial instruments in an attempt to hedge our foreign currency exchange risk, but we may do so in the future. Item 4. Controls and Procedures Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated theeffectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the ExchangeAct) as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report. Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer andChief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report, our disclosure controls and procedures were, in design and operation, effective at a reasonable assurance level. 30
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Table of Contents Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosurecontrols and procedures or our internal controls will prevent all errors and all fraud. Any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objective andmanagement necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2025 that hasmaterially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. PART II—OTHER INFORMATION Item 1. Legal Proceedings Information with respect to this item may be found in Note 12 to the condensed consolidated financial statements inPart I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report, which is incorporated herein by reference. Item 1A. Risk Factors Our business involves significant risks, some of which are described below. You should carefully consider the risks anduncertainties described below, together with all the other information in this Quarterly Report, including “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the condensed consolidated financialstatements and the related notes. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, reputation, financial condition,results of operations, revenue, key performance metrics, and future prospects could be seriously harmed. In addition, youshould consider the interrelationship and compounding effects of two or more risks occurring simultaneously. Unless otherwise indicated, references to our business being harmed in these risk factors will include harm to our business,reputation, financial condition, results of operations, revenue, key performance metrics, and future prospects. In that event,the market price of our Class A common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment. You should notinterpret our disclosure of any of the following risks to imply that such risks have not already materialized. The risks facing our business have not changed substantively from those discussed in our Annual Report, filed with the SEC on February 14,2025, except for those risks marked with an asterisk (*). Risk Factors Summary Below is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in our Class A common stock speculative or risky: Risks Related to Our Business and Industry • the highly competitive nature of the TV streaming industry that is rapidly evolving; • our ability to successfully grow revenues from advertising on our platform; • maintaining an adequate supply of quality video advertising inventory on our platform and effectively selling theavailable supply; • irrelevant or unengaging advertising campaigns on our streaming platform; • our ability to successfully utilize programmatic advertising technology; • advertiser or advertising agency delayed payment or failure to pay; • our ability to further monetize our streaming platform; • our ability to successfully operate and monetize The Roku Channel; • our ability to establish and maintain relationships with important content partners; • popular or new content publishers not publishing their content on our streaming platform; • the non-renewal or early termination of our agreements with content partners; • content partners electing not to participate in platform features that we develop; • users signing up for offerings and services outside of our platform; • our ability to develop, maintain, and expand relationships with licensed Roku TV partners and manufacturingpartners; • our and our licensed Roku TV partners’ ability to develop, maintain, and expand relationships with important retailsales channels that we and they rely on to sell our streaming devices and other products; • our ability to build a strong brand and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty; • our and our licensed Roku TV partners’ reliance on contract manufacturers and limited manufacturing capabilities; • our reliance on licensed Roku TV partners’ operations for the supply of Roku TV models; 31
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Table of Contents Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock • the dual class structure of our common stock; • volatility in the market price of our Class A common stock; • potential dilution or a decline in our stock price caused by future sales or issuance of our capital stock or rights topurchase capital stock; • a decline in our stock price caused by future sales by existing stockholders; • dependency on favorable securities and industry analyst reports; • the significant legal, accounting, and other expenses associated with being a publicly traded company; • the absence of dividends on our common stock; • anti-takeover provisions in our charter and bylaws; and • the limitations resulting from our selection of the Delaware Court of Chancery and the U.S. federal district courts asthe exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders. Risks Related to Our Business and Industry If we fail to differentiate our streaming platform and compete successfully with our competitors, it will bedifficult for us to attract and retain users and our business will be adversely impacted. The TV streaming industry—including the sale of TV streaming devices as well as the sale of advertising on TVstreaming platforms—is highly competitive and global. Our success depends in part on user acquisition and retention and theeffective monetization of our streaming platform. To attract and retain users, we must respond efficiently to changes in user tastes and preferences and offer our users access to the content they demand on terms that they accept. Effectivemonetization requires us to continue to update the features and functionality of our streaming platform for users, contentpartners, and advertisers. We also must effectively support popular sources of streaming content that are available on ourplatform, such as Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, and YouTube. And we must respond rapidly to actual and anticipated market trends in the TV streaming industry. Large companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Google offer TV streaming devices that compete with Roku streamingdevices and those of our licensed Roku TV partners and the Roku TV OS. Google licenses its Android operating systemsoftware for integration into smart TVs, including those of certain of our existing TV partners, and service provider set-top boxes, and Amazon licenses its operating system software for integration into smart TVs and sells Amazon-branded smartTVs. We may also face increased competition from Walmart (which makes and sells Onn. branded streaming products,including co-branded Roku TV models), in light of Walmart’s recent acquisition of Vizio (which makes and sells smart TVs witha proprietary operating system). These companies have greater financial resources than we do and can subsidize the cost of their streaming devices or licensing arrangements to promote their other products and services, which could make it harderfor us to acquire new users, retain existing users, increase Streaming Hours, and monetize our streaming platform. Thesecompetitors could also implement standards or technology that are not compatible with our products or that provide a better streaming experience and have greater resources to more aggressively promote their brands through advertising than we do. In addition, we compete for Streaming Hours with many TV brands, including certain of our existing TV partners, thatoffer their own TV streaming solutions within their TVs, mobile streaming applications on smartphones and tablets, and otherdevices and platforms, such as game consoles with TV streaming functionality. Similarly, some service operators, such as Comcast and Charter Communications (and their joint venture, Xumo, LLC), offer TV streaming applications and devices aspart of their cable service plans and can leverage their existing user bases, installation networks, broadband deliverynetworks, and name recognition to gain traction in TV streaming. If viewers of TV streaming content prefer alternativeproducts to Roku streaming devices, we may not be able to achieve our expected growth in platform revenue, gross profit, and our key performance metrics. We expect continued competition in TV streaming, which could result in pricing pressure, lower revenue andgross profit, declines in our key performance metrics, or the failure of Roku streaming devices, our streamingplatform, or our other products to gain or maintain broad market acceptance. To remain competitive and maintain our position as a leading TV streaming platform, we need to continuously invest inour platform, product development, marketing, service and support, and device distribution infrastructure. In addition, evolvingTV standards and unknown future developments may require further investments in the development of Roku streaming devices, our streaming platform, and our other products. We may not have sufficient resources to continue to make theinvestments needed to maintain our competitive position. In addition, many of our competitors have longer operating histories,greater name recognition, larger customer bases and significantly greater financial, technical, sales, marketing, and otherresources than us, which provide them with advantages in developing, marketing, or servicing new products and offerings. As a result, they may be able to respond more quickly to market demand, devote greater resources to the development,promotion, sales, and distribution of their products or their content, and influence market acceptance of their products betterthan we can. These competitors may also be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging technologies or standards andmay be able to deliver products and services at a lower cost. Sustained competition could reduce our sales volume, revenue, and operating margins, increase our operating costs, harm our competitive position, and otherwise harm our business. 33
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Table of Contents To enhance our users’ experience, we also offer Roku-branded smart home products and services, and audio products,including wireless speakers and subwoofers. As a result, we face additional competition from other brands of smart home and audio products. If our smart home and audio products do not operate as designed or do not enhance the Roku Experience aswe intend, our users’ overall viewing experience may be diminished, which may impact the overall demand for our productsand our partners’ Roku TV models. Our competitors offer content and other advertising mediums that may be more attractive to advertisers than our streaming platform. We operate in a highly competitive advertising industry and compete for revenue from advertising with other streamingplatforms and services, social media platforms, and other digital platforms, as well as traditional media, such as radio,broadcast, cable and satellite TV, and satellite and internet radio. These competitors offer content and other advertising mediums that may be more attractive to advertisers than our streaming platform. These competitors are often very large andhave more advertising experience and financial resources than we do, which may adversely affect our ability to compete foradvertisers and may result in lower revenue and gross profit from advertising. Many major SVOD services, including Netflix,Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video, now have ad-supported SVOD tiers, which has further increased competition for streaming TV advertising revenue. These services, as well as other services such as YouTube and services that have FASTchannels (such as Tubi and Pluto), sell (either through direct sales or programmatically through third parties) advertisinginventory in their ad-supported content that is distributed on our streaming platform. Our business and growth prospects may be harmed if we are unable to increase our revenue from advertising by, among other things, continuing to improve ourstreaming platform’s capabilities to further optimize and measure advertisers’ campaigns; continuing to increase ourstreaming platform’s reach; increasing, differentiating, and selling our advertising inventory, including video advertisinginventory we sell in The Roku Channel, video advertising inventory that we acquire through our streaming services distribution agreements, and display ads included throughout the Roku Experience; innovating our ad product offerings; and maintaininga strong advertising sales team and programmatic capabilities. See also “—If we are unable to maintain an adequate supplyof quality video advertising inventory on our streaming platform or generate sufficient demand to effectively sell our availablevideo advertising inventory, our business may be harmed.” If advertisers continue to devote a substantial portion of their advertising budgets to advertising in traditionalmedia or on other digital platforms rather than on advertising on our streaming platform, the future growth of ourbusiness may be negatively impacted.* Many advertisers continue to devote a substantial portion of their advertising budgets to advertising in traditional media or on other digital platforms, such as traditional TV, radio, print publications, and social media. The future growth of ourbusiness depends on the growth of advertising on TV streaming platforms and on advertisers increasing their spending onadvertising on our TV streaming platform. Although traditional TV advertisers have shown growing interest in advertising on TV streaming platforms, we cannot be certain that their interest will continue to increase or that they will not revert totraditional TV advertising or shift their advertising spending to social media and other digital platforms. In addition, if we areunable to compete with social media and other digital platforms to win business from advertisers and advertising agencieswho have traditionally advertised on these platforms, such as direct-to-consumer and small or medium-sized businesses, our ability to grow our business may be limited. If advertisers, or their agency relationships, do not perceive meaningful benefits ofadvertising on our TV streaming platform, the market may develop more slowly than we expect, which could adversely impactour operating results and our ability to grow our business. Finally, there is political or regulatory pressure in some countries to limit streaming TV advertising (including limiting the advertising that may be associated with children’s content) or impose local content or prominence requirements on streamingTV services, which could pose a threat to our operating results and our ability to grow our business. If we are unable to maintain an adequate supply of quality video advertising inventory on our streamingplatform or generate sufficient demand to effectively sell our available video advertising inventory, our business may be harmed. Our business model depends on our ability to grow video advertising inventory on our streaming platform and sell it toadvertisers. While The Roku Channel has historically served as a valuable source of video advertising inventory for us to sell,there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so in the future. If The Roku Channel is unable to secure content that is appealing to our users and advertisers, or is unable to do so on terms that provide a sufficient supply of advertising inventoryat reasonable cost, our supply of video advertising inventory will be negatively impacted. We are also dependent on our abilityto monetize video advertising inventory within other ad-supported apps on our streaming platform and seek to sell such inventory from the content partners of such apps. We may fail to attract content partners that generate a sufficient quantity orquality of ad-supported content hours on our streaming platform or fail to obtain access to a sufficient supply of suchadvertising inventory from the publishers. Our access to video advertising inventory in ad-supported streaming apps on our streaming platform varies greatly among apps and the amount, quality, and cost of video advertising inventory available to us can change at any time.Accordingly, we may not have access to a significant portion of the video advertising inventory on our streaming platform. Forcertain apps, including YouTube’s ad-supported app, we have no access to video advertising inventory at this time, and wemay not secure access in the future. Moreover, when existing SVOD services introduce new ad- 34
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However, a small number of advertisers andcontent partners historically have accounted for a significant portion of the spending on ads integrated into our UI. If our advertisers and content partners decrease spending on ads integrated into our UI, our financial condition and operatingresults may suffer, and our business may be harmed. For example, consolidation among content partners has in the pastresulted, and may in the future result, in decreased spending on ads integrated into our UI. In addition, existing and prospective advertisers may not be successful in serving advertising campaigns that lead to and maintain viewer engagement. Those ads and campaigns may seem irrelevant, repetitive, or overly targeted and intrusive.For example, viewers may dislike the content and frequency of advertising that appears on the Roku Home Screen. We arecontinuously seeking to balance the objectives of our advertisers with our desire to provide an optimal viewer experience, but we may not be successful in achieving a balance that continues to attract and retain viewers, advertisers, and contentpartners. If the advertising campaigns that run on our streaming platform are not relevant, are overly intrusive or too frequent,or are an impediment to the use of our platform, our viewers may stop using our platform, resulting in a reduction of our userbase and Streaming Hours, which will harm our business, financial condition, and operating results. We are subject to various risks in connection with programmatic advertising. The market for programmatic streaming TV ad buying is growing, and advertisers and advertising agencies canprogrammatically purchase and manage their streaming TV, desktop, and mobile advertising campaigns both off and on theRoku platform through third-party demand sources (such as third-party DSPs and SSPs) and through our media buying channels. If our current and potential advertising partners do not continue to shift to programmatic ad buying from otherbuying methods, or if we are unable to expand our programmatic demand by maintaining and developing third-party demandrelationships in a way that is competitive with other advertising platforms, our business could be harmed. In addition, if DSPsor SSPs do not have the functionality or services expected by advertisers or advertising agencies, they may take their advertising spend to a non-Roku platform. We also may not be able to adapt to changes or trends in programmatic streamingTV advertising, which would harm our ability to grow our advertising revenue and harm our business. Furthermore, the programmatic advertising ecosystem is large, distributed, and complex, requiring us to integrate with several key third-party advertising partners. Our compliance with applicable laws and regulations therefore may depend inpart on these partners’ commitment to handling user data with the care that we require or expect of them. Because integrationof our respective systems is complex and rapidly evolving, we and our partners may be susceptible to breaches, failures, andother errors (whether inadvertent or intentional). We expect to encounter more of these challenges and issues as the number of partners we integrate with increases. We are subject to credit and payment-related risks if our advertisers, advertising agencies, or programmaticpartners do not pay or dispute their invoices, which could harm our business. Many of our contracts with advertising agencies provide that if the advertiser does not pay the agency, the agency is not liable to us, and we must seek payment solely from the advertiser, a type of arrangement called sequential liability.Contracting with these agencies, which in some cases have or may develop higher-risk credit profiles, may subject us togreater credit risk than if we were to contract directly with advertisers. This credit risk may vary depending on the nature of an advertising agency’s aggregated advertiser base. In addition, typically, we are contractually required to pay advertising inventory data suppliers within a negotiated period of time,regardless of whether our advertisers or advertising agencies pay us on time, or at all. Further, we typically experience slowpayment cycles by advertising agencies as is common in the advertising industry. While we attempt to balance paymentperiods with our suppliers and advertisers and advertising agencies, we are not always successful. As a result, we can often face a timing issue with our accounts payable on shorter cycles than our accounts receivables, requiring us to remit paymentsfrom our own funds, and accept the risk of credit losses. We may also be involved in disputes with agencies, their advertisers, or our programmatic partners over the operation of our streaming platform, the terms of our agreements, or our billings for purchases made by them through our streamingplatform, our DSP, or other programmatic partners. If we are unable to collect or make adjustments to bills, we could incurcredit losses, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for the periods in which the write-offsoccur. In the future, bad debt may exceed reserves for such contingencies, and our bad debt exposure may increase over time. Any increase in write-offs for bad debt could have a materially negative effect on our business, financial condition, andoperating results. Though we have not experienced significant credit losses to date, if we are not paid by our advertisers oradvertising agencies on time or at all, our business may be harmed. 35
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Table of Contents We may not be successful in our efforts to further monetize our expanding user base and streaming activity aswe increase the amount of content offered and streamed across our platform, which may harm our business. Our business model depends on our ability to generate platform revenue from advertisers and content partners throughad-supported content. We generate platform revenue primarily from the sale of digital advertising (including direct andprogrammatic video advertising, ads integrated into our UI, and related services) and streaming services distribution(including subscription and transaction revenue shares, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons on remote controls). As such, we are seeking to expand our user base and increase Streaming Hours in an effort tocreate additional platform revenue opportunities. As our user base grows and as we increase the amount of content offeredand streamed across our platform, we must effectively monetize our expanding user base and streaming activity. The totalnumber of Streaming Hours does not correlate with platform revenue on a period-by-period basis, primarily because we do not monetize every hour streamed or every user on our platform. Moreover, Streaming Hours on our platform are measuredwhenever a Roku streaming device is streaming content, whether a viewer is actively watching or not. For example, if ourstreaming player is connected to a TV, and the viewer turns off the TV, steps away, or falls asleep without stopping or pausingthe player, then a particular streaming app may continue to play content for a period of time determined by the streaming app. Roku TV OS’s “Are you still watching?” feature, which prompts users to confirm they are still watching, does not resolve thislack of correlation. Our ability to deliver advertisements relevant to our users and to increase our streaming platform’s value to advertisers and content partners depends on the collection of user engagement data, and the degree to which our users consent to, optout of, or limit the collection or use of data for advertisements, including as a result of product changes and controls that wehave implemented or may implement in the future related to new applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, regulatoryactions, or litigation that impact our ability to use data for advertising purposes. Content partners may also refuse to allow us to collect data regarding user engagement or refuse to implement mechanisms we request to ensure compliance with ourlegal obligations or technical requirements. For example, we are not able to fully utilize program level viewing data from manyof our most popular apps to improve the relevancy of advertisements provided to our users. Other apps available on our streaming platform, such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu, and YouTube, are focused on increasing user engagement and time spent within their apps by allowing users to purchase additional content andstreaming services within their apps. When users purchase these products and services in-app rather than from us, we mayearn less revenue than when such products and services are purchased directly from us. Additionally, if our users spend mostof their time within particular apps where we have limited or no ability to place advertisements or leverage user information, or our users opt out from our ability to collect data for use in providing more relevant advertisements, we may not be able toachieve our expected growth in platform revenue, gross profit, or certain key performance metrics. Additionally, ourdistribution agreements with our most popular apps are renegotiated periodically; thus, even if we are currently able to monetize Streaming Hours within an app, we may not be able to do so in the future. If we are unable to further monetize ourstreaming platform, our business may be harmed. Our efforts to monetize our streaming platform may not continue to grow as we expect, and at times our platformrevenue growth has been, and may in the future be, lower than expected due to advertising inventory supply and demand imbalances; advertisers significantly curtailing or pausing advertising spending due to macroeconomic factors or other factorsbeyond our control; competitive pressures from video advertising offerings on other TV streaming platforms or services; or thenon-binding nature of advertisers’ spending commitments. For example, spending commitments we obtain in connection withannual TV Upfront presentations are typically not fully binding, and the revenue we receive from such commitments may be less than the initially committed amount. To materially increase the monetization of our streaming platform through the sale ofvideo advertising, we must generate significantly more advertising revenue on our streaming platform as well as deliver ad-supported content that results in our users streaming significantly more ad-supported content. We cannot assure you that wewill be successful in monetizing our streaming platform through the distribution of ad-supported content. We are subject to various risks in connection with our operation and monetization of The Roku Channel. We operate The Roku Channel, which offers ad-supported free access for users to a collection of films, televisionseries, live linear television, and other content. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, costs and expenses in connectionwith the development, expansion, and operation of The Roku Channel, which we monetize primarily through advertising. We also commission original content that we own and distribute on The Roku Channel. From time to time, we may removeunderperforming content from The Roku Channel and record an impairment charge related to such removal. If our users do not continue to stream the ad-supported content we make available on The Roku Channel, we will not have the opportunity to monetize The Roku Channel through revenue generated from advertising. In order to attract users tothe ad-supported content on The Roku Channel and drive streaming of ad-supported video on The Roku Channel, we mustsecure rights to stream content that is appealing to our users and advertisers. In part, we do this by directly licensing certaincontent from content owners, such as television and movie studios. Our agreements with these content owners have varying terms and provide us with rights to make specific content available through The Roku Channel during certain periods of time.Upon expiration of these agreements, we must re-negotiate and renew these agreements with the existing content owners, orenter into new agreements with other content owners, to obtain rights to distribute 36
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We have limited experienceproducing content, and we may not succeed in doing so in a cost-effective manner that furthers the growth of The RokuChannel and increases its appeal to our users and advertisers. We also assume risks associated with content production, such as completion and key talent risks, and the risk of litigation and claims related to our content production. Furthermore, if the advertisements on The Roku Channel are not relevant to our users or are overly intrusive andimpede our users’ enjoyment of the available content, our users may not stream content and view advertisements on TheRoku Channel, and The Roku Channel may not generate sufficient revenue from advertising to be cost effective for us to operate. In addition, we distribute The Roku Channel on platforms other than our own streaming platform, and we may not besuccessful in attracting a large number of users or generating significant revenue from advertising through the distribution ofThe Roku Channel on such other streaming platforms. The sale of Premium Subscriptions on The Roku Channel also generates platform revenue and carries certain non-advertising related risks. See “—If our users sign up for offerings and services outside of our streaming platform or throughother apps on our streaming platform, our business may be harmed.” We depend on a small number of content partners for nearly half of our Streaming Hours, and if we fail to maintain these relationships, our business could be harmed.* Historically, a small number of content partners have accounted for a significant portion of the hours streamed on ourplatform. In the three months ended March 31, 2025, the top three streaming services (excluding The Roku Channel)represented nearly half of all hours streamed in the period. If, for any reason, we cease distributing apps that have historically streamed a large percentage of the aggregate Streaming Hours on our platform, our Streaming Hours, user base, or Rokustreaming device sales may be adversely affected, and our business may be harmed. If popular or new content publishers do not publish content on our streaming platform, we may fail to retainexisting users and attract new users. We must continuously maintain existing relationships and identify and establish new relationships with contentpublishers to provide popular streaming apps, streaming app features, and content on our platform. In order to remaincompetitive, we must consistently meet user demand for popular streaming apps, streaming app features, streaming app bundles, and content, particularly as we launch new streaming devices, introduce new TVs powered by the Roku TV OS, orenter new markets, including international markets. This may be challenging as the industry continues to evolve, includingthrough consolidation of content publishers, joint ventures among content publishers, and licensing of content betweencontent publishers. If we are not successful in helping our content publishers launch, maintain, and expand their streaming apps and streaming app features that attract and retain a significant number of users on our streaming platform or if we arenot able to do so in a cost-effective manner, our business will be harmed. Our success in assisting our content publishersmaintain and expand their app offerings on a cost-effective basis largely depends on our ability to effectively promote andmarket streaming apps, minimize launch delays or downtime of streaming apps, and minimize streaming platform downtime and other technical difficulties. In addition, if service operators, including traditional TV providers, refuse to grant our users access to stream certainapps or only make content available on devices they prefer, our ability to offer a broad selection of popular streaming apps orcontent may be limited, which could adversely affect our business. The non-renewal or early termination of agreements with our content partners may result in the removal ofcertain apps or app features from our streaming platform and harm our streaming device sales, user base growth,and engagement. Our agreements with content partners generally have terms of one to three years and can be terminated before the end of the term by the content partner under certain circumstances, including if we materially breach the agreement, becomeinsolvent, enter bankruptcy, commit fraud, or fail to adhere to the content partners’ security or other platform certificationrequirements. Upon expiration of these agreements, we are required to re-negotiate and renew them in order to continue providing content from these content partners on our streaming platform. We have in the past been unable, and in the futuremay not be able, to reach a satisfactory agreement with certain content partners before our existing agreements haveexpired. If we are unable to renew such agreements on a timely basis on mutually agreeable terms, or if a content partnerterminates an agreement with us prior to its expiration, we may be required to temporarily or permanently remove certain apps or app features from our streaming platform. The loss of such apps or app features from our streaming platform for any period of time may harm our business. Morebroadly, if we fail to maintain our relationships with the content partners on terms favorable to us, or at all, or if 37
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See also “—Wemay not be successful in our efforts to further monetize our expanding user base and streaming activity as we increase theamount of content offered and streamed across our platform, which may harm our business.” In addition, our streaming platform utilizes our proprietary Brightscript scripting language to allow our content partners to develop and create apps onour streaming platform. Certain content partners may find other languages, such as HTML5, more attractive to develop forand shift their resources to developing their apps on other platforms. If key content partners do not find our streaming platformsimple and attractive to develop apps for, do not value and participate in all of the features and functionality that our streaming platform offers, or determine that our software developer kit or new features of our platform do not meet their requirements,our business may be harmed. If our users sign up for offerings and services outside of our streaming platform or through other apps on our streaming platform, our business may be harmed. We earn revenue by acquiring subscribers for certain of our content partners activated on or through our streamingplatform, including Premium Subscriptions on The Roku Channel, which allow our users to pay for content from variouscontent partners. If users reduce their use of our streaming platform for these purchases or subscriptions for any reason, including opting to pay for services directly with content partners or by other means for which we do not receive attribution,our business may be harmed. In addition, certain apps available on our streaming platform allow users to purchase additional streaming services fromwithin those apps. The revenue we earn from these transactions, if any, is not always equivalent to the revenue we earn from sales of such additional services on a stand-alone basis through our streaming platform. If users increase their spending onsuch in-app transactions at the expense of stand-alone purchases through our streaming platform, our business may beharmed. Our growth depends in part on our ability to develop, maintain, and expand relationships with our licensed Roku TV partners and manufacturing partners. We license the Roku TV OS and our smart TV reference designs to certain TV brand and manufacturing partners forthe development, manufacture, and commercialization of licensed Roku TV models and, for a number of years, the sale of Roku TV models by our licensed Roku TV partners has materially contributed to growth in our user base and StreamingHours and supported our platform monetization efforts. As our Roku TV licensing program has expanded to certain marketsoutside the United States, international users are representing an increasing share of our user base. We have developed, andintend to continue to develop and expand, relationships with these TV brand and manufacturing partners as we continue to invest in the growth and expansion of our Roku TV program both in the United States and international markets. We typicallydo not receive or expect license revenue from these license arrangements but incur operating expenses to establish andsupport them. The economic benefits that we derive from these license arrangements are and will likely continue to beindirect, primarily growth of our user base and increasing Streaming Hours, and both enabling us to generate more streaming services distribution and advertising-related revenue on our platform. If these arrangements do not continue to result inincreased user base and Streaming Hours, and if that growth does not in turn lead to successfully monetizing that increaseduser activity, our business may be harmed. See also “—We may not be successful in our efforts to further monetize ourexpanding user base and streaming activity as we increase the amount of content offered and streamed across our platform, which may harm our business.” The loss of a relationship with a licensed Roku TV partner (including as a result of our launch of Roku-branded TVs thatare designed, made, and sold by us) could harm our results of operations, damage our reputation, increase pricing andpromotional pressures from other partners and retail distribution channels, increase our marketing costs, and result in the loss of revenue. If we are not successful in maintaining existing and creating new relationships with any of these licensed Roku TVpartners, or if we encounter technological, content licensing, or other impediments to these relationships, our ability to grow ormaintain our business could be adversely impacted. Our Roku TV licensing arrangements are complex and time-consuming to negotiate and complete. Under these licensearrangements, we generally have limited or no control over the amount and timing of resources our licensing partners maydedicate to the relationship. In the past, our licensed Roku TV partners have failed to meet their forecasts and anticipatedmarket launch dates for distributing Roku TV models, and they may fail to do so in the future. If our licensed Roku TV partners fail to meet their forecasts or launch dates for distributing our streaming devices or choose to deploy competing streamingsolutions within their product lines, our business may be harmed. 38
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As we are still arecent entrant in international markets, we may not have established a strong reputation or relationships with retailers for those markets as compared to our retail sales channels in the United States or our competitors in international markets. Seealso “—We may be unable to successfully expand our international operations, and our international expansion plans, ifimplemented, will subject us to a variety of risks that may harm our business.” Our retailers and distributors also sell products that compete with our products and our licensed Roku TV partners’ products, including house-branded televisions sold by such retailers that utilize TV operating systems other than the Roku TVOS. We have no minimum purchase commitments or long-term contracts with any of these retailers or distributors, and therecan be no assurance that we will reach agreements with our retailers and distributors on terms we find acceptable or that will be consistent with our past practices. We may be reliant on certain retailers or distributors. Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart in total accounted for 87%and 73% of our devices revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Furthermore, ourlicensed Roku TV partners may be reliant on the same or other retailers and distributors for a significant portion of their unit sales of Roku TV models. If one or several retailers or distributors were to discontinue selling our or licensed Roku TVpartners’ products, choose not to prominently display those products in their stores or on their websites, or close or severelylimit access to their brick and mortar locations, the volume of our or our licensed Roku TV partners’ products sold coulddecrease, which would harm our business. These risks may be exacerbated by our reliance on certain retailers or distributors, or when a major retailer in a jurisdiction commercializes televisions under brands that the retailer controls. In addition, if any of our existing licensed Roku TV partners choose to work exclusively with, or divert a significantportion of their business with us, to other operating system developers, this may adversely impact our ability to continue tolicense the Roku TV OS and our smart TV reference design to TV brands and to grow our user base and monetize the Roku TV OS. Traditional retailers have limited shelf and end cap space in their stores and limited promotional budgets, and onlineretailers have limited prime website product placement space. Competition is intense for these resources, and a competitorwith more extensive product lines, stronger brand identity, and greater marketing resources, such as Amazon or Google, possesses greater bargaining power with retailers. In addition, one of our online retailers, Amazon, sells its own competitivestreaming devices, smart TVs, and smart home devices, is able to market and promote these products more prominently onits website, and could refuse to offer or promote our products on its website. We also may face increased competition withWalmart (which currently makes and sells Onn. branded streaming products, including co-branded Roku TV models), in light of Walmart’s acquisition of Vizio (which also makes and sells smart TVs with a proprietary operating system). See also “—Ifour efforts to build a strong brand and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty are not successful, we may not be able toattract or retain users, and our business may be harmed” and “—If we fail to differentiate our streaming platform and competesuccessfully with our competitors, it will be difficult for us to attract and retain users and our business will be adversely impacted.” Any reduction in our ability to place and promote our products, or increased competition for available shelf orwebsite placement, could require us to increase our marketing or other expenditures to maintain our product visibility or couldresult in reduced visibility for our products, which may harm our business. In particular, the availability of product placementduring peak retail periods, such as the holiday season, is critical to our revenue growth, and if we are unable to effectively sell our products during these periods, our business would be harmed. If our efforts to build a strong brand and maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty are not successful, we maynot be able to attract or retain users, and our business may be harmed. Building and maintaining a strong brand is important to attract and retain users, as potential users have a number of TV streaming choices. Successfully building a brand is a time-consuming and comprehensive endeavor, and our brand may benegatively impacted by factors, some which are beyond our control, such as the quality and reliability of the Roku TV modelsmade by our licensed Roku TV partners and the quality of the content provided by our content partners. Our competitors may be able to achieve and maintain brand awareness and consumer demand for their products more quickly and effectively thanwe can. Many of our competitors are larger companies and may have greater resources to devote to the promotion of theirbrands through traditional advertising, digital advertising, or website product placement. See also “—If we fail to differentiateour streaming platform and compete successfully with our competitors, it will be difficult for us to attract and retain users and our business will be adversely impacted.” If we are unable to execute on building a strong brand, it may be difficult todifferentiate our business and streaming platform from our competitors in the marketplace, which may adversely affect ourability to attract and retain users and harm our business. 39
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Table of Contents Our streaming platform allows our users to choose from a wide variety of apps, representing a variety of content from awide range of content partners. While we have policies that prohibit the publication of content that is unlawful, incites illegal activities, or violates third-party rights, among other things, we may distribute apps that include controversial content.Controversies related to the content included on certain apps that we distribute have resulted in, and could in the future resultin, negative publicity, cause harm to our reputation and brand, or subject us to claims and may harm our business. If we encounter problems with the limited number of contract manufacturers we primarily depend upon, our operations could be disrupted.* We do not have any internal manufacturing capabilities and rely on a limited number of contract manufacturers to buildour players, smart home products, and Roku-branded TVs. Our contract manufacturers are vulnerable to, among otherissues: • capacity constraints; • reduced component availability; • production, supply chain, or shipping disruptions, delays, or increased costs, including from labor disputes, strikes,mechanical issues, quality control issues, natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, and public health crises; and • the impact of U.S. or foreign tariffs, trade, or sanctions restrictions on components, finished goods, software, otherproducts, or data transfers. As a result, we have limited control over delivery schedules, manufacturing yields, and costs, particularly when components are in short supply or when we introduce new products. We also have limited control over our contract manufacturers’ quality systems and controls, and therefore must rely onthem to manufacture our products to our quality and performance standards and specifications. Delays, componentshortages, quality issues, and other manufacturing and supply problems in the past have impaired, and could in the future impair, the retail distribution of our products and ultimately our brand. Furthermore, any adverse change in our contractmanufacturers’ financial or business condition could disrupt our ability to supply our products to our retailers and distributors. We also rely upon our contract manufacturers and other contractors to perform some of the development work on ourproducts. The contract manufacturers or other contractors may be unwilling or unable to successfully complete desired development or fix defects or errors in a timely manner. Delays in development work by contract manufacturers or contractorscould delay launch of new or improved products. Our contracts with our contract manufacturers generally may not contain terms that protect us against development,manufacturing, and supply disruptions or risks. For example, such contracts may not obligate our contract manufacturers to supply our products in any specific quantity or at any specific price. If our contract manufacturers are unable to fulfill ourproduction requirements in a timely manner, if their costs increase because of inflationary pressures, U.S. or internationaltariffs, sanctions, export or import restrictions, or if they decide to terminate their relationship with us, our order fulfillment may be delayed or terminated, and we would have to attempt to identify, select, and qualify acceptable alternative contractmanufacturers. Alternative contract manufacturers may not be available to us when needed or may not be in a position to satisfy ourproduction requirements at commercially reasonable prices, to our quality and performance standards on a timely basis, or at all. Any significant interruption in manufacturing at our contract manufacturers for any reason could require us to reduce oursupply of products to our retailers and distributors, which in turn would reduce our revenue, or incur higher freight costs thananticipated, which would negatively impact our devices gross margin. In addition, our contract manufacturers’ facilities, and the facilities of our contract manufacturers’ suppliers, are located in various geographic areas that may be subject to political, economic, labor, trade, public health, social, and legaluncertainties, including Brazil, China, Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, and such uncertainties may harm or disrupt ourrelationships with these parties or their ability to perform. For example, if the tensions between Taiwan and China escalateand impact the operations of our contract manufacturers and their Taiwanese suppliers, our supply chain and our business could be adversely affected. We believe that the international location of these facilities increases supply risk, including therisk of supply interruptions, tariffs, and trade restrictions on exports or imports. The supply of Roku TV models to the market could be disrupted if our licensed Roku TV partners encounterproblems with their internal operations or with their contract manufacturers, assemblers, or component suppliers. Some of our licensed Roku TV partners have internal manufacturing capabilities, while others rely primarily orexclusively upon contract manufacturers to build the Roku TV models that our licensed Roku TV partners sell to retailers.Regardless of whether their manufacturing capabilities are internal or contracted, our licensed Roku TV partners’ manufacturers may be vulnerable to capacity constraints and reduced component availability; increases in tariffs on imports ofRoku TV models; future possible changes in regulations on exports; restrictions, by the United States or otherwise, ondealings with certain countries, companies, or imported inputs; tariffs on parts or components for Roku TV models; and supplychain disruptions, increased shipping costs, and shipping delays. 40
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Furthermore, any manufacturing, design, or other issues affecting the quality or performance of Roku TV models couldharm our brand and our business. If we fail to accurately forecast our manufacturing requirements for our products and manage our inventorywith our contract manufacturers, we could incur additional costs, experience manufacturing delays, and loserevenue. We bear risks of excess and insufficient inventories under our contract manufacturing arrangements. For example, our contract manufacturers order materials and components in advance in an effort to meet our projected needs for our products.Lead times for the materials and components that our contract manufacturers order on our behalf through differentcomponent suppliers may vary significantly and depend on numerous factors outside of our control, including the specific supplier, contract terms, shipping and freight, market demand for a component at a given time, and trade and governmentrelations. Lead times for certain key materials and components incorporated into our products are currently lengthy and mayrequire our contract manufacturers to order materials and components many months in advance. If we overestimate ourproduction requirements, our contract manufacturers may purchase excess components and build excess inventory. If our contract manufacturers, at our request, purchase excess components or build excess products, we could be required to payfor these excess components or products. In the past, we have agreed to reimburse our contract manufacturers for purchasedcomponents that were not used as a result of our decision to discontinue a certain model or the use of particular components.If we incur costs to cover excess supply commitments, our business may be harmed. Conversely, if we underestimate our product requirements, our contract manufacturers may have inadequate material orcomponent inventory, which could interrupt the manufacturing of our products, result in insufficient quantities available to meetdemand, and result in delays or cancellation of orders from retailers and distributors. In addition, from time to time we haveexperienced unanticipated increases in demand that resulted in the need to ship our products via air freight, which is more expensive than ocean freight, and adversely affected our devices gross margin during such periods of high demand (forexample, during end-of-year holidays). If we fail to accurately forecast our manufacturing requirements, our business may beharmed. Our products incorporate key components from sole source suppliers, and if our contract manufacturers areunable to obtain sufficient quantities of these components on a timely basis, we will not be able to deliver ourproducts to our retailers and distributors. We depend on sole source suppliers for key components in our products. For example, each of our streaming players and TVs powered by the Roku TV OS may utilize a specific system on chip (or SoC), Wi-Fi silicon product, and Wi-Fi front-end module, each of which may be available from only a single manufacturer and for which we do not have a second source. Although this approach allows us to maximize product performance on lower cost hardware, reduce engineeringdevelopment and qualification costs, and develop stronger relationships with our strategic suppliers, this also creates supply chain risk. These sole-source suppliers could be constrained by fabrication capacity issues or material supply issues, such asU.S. or foreign tariffs, war or other government or trade relations issues, other export or import restrictions on parts orcomponents for finished products that are used in final assembly of their components (or on the finished productsthemselves), or shortages of key components. There is also a risk that the strategic supplier may stop producing such components, cease operations, be acquired byor enter into exclusive arrangements with our competitors or other companies, put contract manufacturers on allocationbecause of semiconductor shortages, or become subject to U.S. or foreign sanctions or export control restrictions orpenalties. Such suppliers have experienced, and may in the future experience, production, shipping, or logistical constraints arising from macroeconomic conditions or other circumstances, such as inflationary pressures, geopolitical conflicts, andsupply chain disruptions. Such interruptions and delays have in the past and may in the future force us to seek similarcomponents from alternative sources, which may not always be available, and which may cause us to delay product introductions and incur air freight expense. Switching from a sole-source supplier may require that we adapt our software andredesign our products to accommodate new chips and components, and may require us to re-qualify our products withregulatory bodies, such as the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), which would be costly and time-consuming. Our reliance on sole-source suppliers involves a number of additional risks, including risks related to: supplier capacityconstraints; price increases, including those related to inflationary pressures, tariffs, and material costs; timely delivery;component quality; and delays in, or the inability to execute on, a supplier roadmap for components and technologies. Anyinterruption in the supply of sole-source components for our products could adversely affect our ability 41
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Table of Contents to meet scheduled product deliveries to our retailers and distributors, result in lost sales and higher expenses, and harm ourbusiness. If our products do not operate effectively with various offerings, technologies, and systems from contentpartners and other third parties that we do not control, our business may be harmed.* The Roku TV OS is designed to perform using relatively low-cost hardware, which enables us to drive user growth viaRoku streaming devices offered at a low cost to users. However, this hardware must be interoperable with all apps and other offerings, technologies, and systems from our content partners, including virtual multi-channel video programming distributors,and other third parties. We have no control over these offerings, technologies, and systems beyond our app certificationrequirements, and if Roku streaming devices do not provide our users with a high-quality experience on those offerings on acost-effective basis or if changes are made to those offerings that are not compatible with Roku streaming devices, we may be unable to increase user base growth and user engagement or may be required to increase our hardware costs, and ourbusiness will be harmed. We plan to continue to introduce new products regularly, including, for example, the new Roku streaming devices andproduct enhancements we announced in April 2025, and we have experienced that it takes time to optimize such products to function well with these offerings, technologies and systems. In addition, many of our largest content partners have the rightto test and certify our new products before we can publish their apps. The certification processes can be time-consuming andintroduce third-party dependencies into our product release cycles. If our content partners do not certify new products on a timely basis or require us to make changes in order to obtain certifications, our product release plans may be adverselyimpacted, we may not be able to offer certain products to all licensed Roku TV partners or we may not continue to offercertain apps. To continue to grow our user base and user engagement, we will need to prioritize development of Rokustreaming devices to work better with new offerings, technologies, and systems. If we are unable to maintain consistent operability of Roku streaming devices that is on parity with or better than other platforms, our business could be harmed. In addition, any future changes to offerings, technologies, and systems from our content partners may impact theaccessibility, speed, functionality, and other performance aspects of Roku streaming devices. We may not successfullydevelop Roku streaming devices that operate effectively with these offerings, technologies, or systems. If it becomes more difficult for our users to access and use these offerings, technologies, or systems, our business could be harmed. Our products are complex and may contain hardware defects and software errors, which could manifestthemselves in ways that could harm our reputation and our business.* Our products and the products of our licensed Roku TV partners are complex and have in the past contained, and may in the future contain, hardware defects or software errors. These defects and errors can manifest themselves in any numberof ways in our products or our streaming platform, including through diminished performance, security vulnerabilities, dataloss or poor quality, device malfunctions, account inactivity, or even permanently disabled products. Some errors may only be discovered after a product has been shipped and used by users and may in some cases only be detected under certaincircumstances or after extended use. We update our software on a regular basis, and, despite our quality assuranceprocesses, we have in the past introduced, and may in the future introduce, software errors in the process of any suchupdates. The introduction of a serious software error could result in products becoming permanently disabled. We offer a limitedwarranty for our products, in accordance with applicable law, however, providing software updates, product support, and otheractivities could cause us to be responsible for issues with products for an extended period of time. Any defects discovered inour products after commercial release could result in loss of revenue or delay in revenue recognition, loss of customer goodwill and users, and increased service costs, any of which could harm our business, operating results, and financialcondition. We could also face claims for product or information liability, tort or breach of warranty, or other violations of laws orregulations. In addition, our contracts with our end users contain provisions relating to warranty disclaimers and liabilitylimitations, which may not be upheld. Defending a lawsuit, regardless of its merit, is costly and may divert management’s attention and adversely affect the market’s perception of Roku and our products. In addition, if our insurance coverage provesinadequate or future coverage is unavailable on acceptable terms or at all, our business could be harmed. Components used in our products may fail as a result of manufacturing, design, or other defects that wereunknown to us or over which we have no control and may render our products permanently inoperable. We rely on third-party component suppliers to provide certain functionalities needed for the operation and use of ourproducts. Any errors or defects in such third-party technology could result in errors or defects in our products that could harmour business. If these components have a manufacturing, design, or other defect, they could cause our products to fail and could render them permanently inoperable. For example, the typical means by which our users connect their home networksto our players is by way of a Wi-Fi access point in the home network router. If the Wi-Fi receiver or transmitter in a player failsand cannot detect a home network’s Wi-Fi access point, the player will not be able to display or deliver any content to the TVscreen. As a result, we may have to recall and replace defective products, which could be at a considerable expense. In addition, if our insurance coverage proves inadequate or future coverage is unavailable on acceptable terms or at all, ourbusiness could be harmed. Should we have a widespread problem of this kind, our reputation in the market could also beadversely affected. 42
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If we are unable to obtain or maintain necessary third-party licenses, certifications, or approvals, we may have to obtain substitute technologies, intellectual property, or services with lower quality or performance standards, or at a greater cost, orremove desired functions and features from our products and services, any of which could harm customer and partnerrelationships, as well as the competitiveness of our products, services, and business. Our products and services are designed to be compatible with numerous industry standards. In many cases, these industry standards have numerous associated patents known generally as standard essential patents (“SEPs”). Over time,SEP owners have increasingly turned away from licensing their SEPs through patent pools, preferring to license theirportfolios directly. This has increased the number of licensors (since the patents are not pooled) and increased the time, cost, and difficulty of SEP licensing. If we are unable to obtain a license to a necessary SEP on commercially reasonable terms, orat all, or find a suitable substitute technology that complies with the industry standard, our customer and partner relationships,as well as the competitiveness of our products and services, and our business may be harmed. See also “—We mustcontinue to innovate and develop new and existing products and services to remain competitive, and new products and services expose our business to new risks.” We must continue to innovate and develop new and existing products and services to remain competitive, andnew products and services expose our business to new risks. We must continually innovate and improve our products and services and develop new products and services to meet changing consumer demands. The introduction of a new product or service is a complex process, involving significantexpenditures in research and development, promotion, and sales channel development, and can expose our business to newrisks. The introduction of new products and services or changes to our existing products and services may result in new orenhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny, new litigation or claims, or other complications that could adversely affect our business, reputation, or financial results. In addition, our entrance into entirely new lines of business beyond our historicalcore business of TV streaming and advertising, such as our Roku-branded smart home products, may change our risk profileand subject us to risks that differ from the risks we face as a result of our historical TV streaming business. Whether users will broadly adopt our new products or services is not certain. Our future success will depend on ourability to develop new and competitively priced products and services and add new desirable content and features to ourstreaming platform. Moreover, we must introduce new products and services in a timely and cost-effective manner, and wemust secure production orders for new products from our contract manufacturers. See also “—If popular or new content publishers do not publish content on our streaming platform, we may fail to retain existing users and attract new users.” The successful development and introduction of new products and services depends on a number of factors, including: • the accuracy of our forecasts for market requirements beyond near-term visibility; • our ability to anticipate and react to new technologies and evolving consumer trends; • our development, licensing, or acquisition of new technologies; • our timely completion of new designs and development; • our ability to timely and adequately redesign or resolve design or manufacturing or security issues; • our ability to identify and contract with appropriate manufacturers; • the ability of our contract manufacturers to cost-effectively manufacture our products, produce quality products, andminimize defects, manufacturing mishaps, shipping costs, and delays; • the availability of materials and key components used in manufacturing; • tariffs, trade, sanctions, and export restrictions by the U.S. or foreign governments; • our ability to comply with regulatory requirements; and • our ability to attract and retain high quality research and development personnel. If any of these or other factors materializes, we may not be able to develop and introduce new products or services in a timely or cost-effective manner, and our business may be harmed. We do not expect that all of our new products and serviceswill be successful. 43
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If the recommendations, content, or analyses that AI applicationsproduce are or are alleged to be deficient or inaccurate, we could be subjected to competitive harm, potential legal liability,and brand or reputational harm. The legal and regulatory landscape surrounding AI technologies is rapidly evolving and uncertain, including in the areas of intellectual property, cybersecurity, and privacy and data protection. For example, there isuncertainty around the validity and enforceability of intellectual property rights related to the use, development, anddeployment of AI technologies. Compliance with new or changing laws, regulations or industry standards relating to AI mayimpose significant operational costs and may limit our ability to develop, deploy, or use AI technologies. See also “—If government regulations or laws relating to the internet, video, advertising, or other areas of our business change, we mayneed to alter the manner in which we conduct our business, or our business could be harmed.” There can be no assurancethat the measures we have taken to mitigate the potential risks related to generative AI will be sufficient. Failure to appropriately respond to this evolving landscape may result in legal liability, regulatory action, or brand and reputational harm. If we fail to provide adequate levels of quality customer support, we could lose users, advertisers, contentpartners, and licensed Roku TV partners, which could harm our business. A high level of support is critical for the success of our business, and our users depend on this support to resolve issues relating to our products and our streaming platform. We currently outsource the majority of our customer support operation toa third-party customer support organization which provides support to end users and licensees. If we do not effectively train,update, and manage our third-party customer support organization to assist our users and licensees, and if that supportorganization does not succeed in helping them quickly resolve issues or provide effective ongoing support, it could adversely affect our ability to monetize our streaming platform, to sell our products to users and could harm our reputation with potentialnew customers and our licensees. Risks Related to Operating and Growing Our Business We have incurred operating losses in the past, and although we have achieved profitability in certain prior quarters, we may continue to incur operating losses in the future and may not be able to achieve profitability againin the near term or at all.* We have incurred operating losses in the past, and we may incur operating losses in the future. Although we achieved profitability in certain prior quarters, we may not be able to achieve profitability again in the near term or at all. As of March 31,2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $1,454.4 million. Our operating expenses have increased in the past and mayincrease again in the future as we expand our operations and invest in growth and new areas. If our revenue and gross profitdo not grow at a greater rate than our operating expenses, we may not be able to achieve profitability again. We expect our profitability to fluctuate in the future for a number of reasons, including without limitation the other risks and uncertaintiesdescribed herein. Additionally, we may encounter unforeseen operating or legal expenses, difficulties, complications, delays,and other factors that may result in losses in future periods. Our quarterly operating results may be volatile and are difficult to predict, and our stock price may decline if we fail to meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors.* Our revenue, gross profit, key performance metrics, and other operating results could vary significantly from quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year and may fail to match our past performance due to a variety of factors, including many factors thatare outside of our control. Factors that may contribute to the variability of our operating results and cause the market price of our Class A common stock to fluctuate include: • the entrance of new competitors or competitive products or services; • our ability to retain and grow our user base, increase engagement among new and existing users, and monetize ourstreaming platform; • our ability to maintain effective pricing practices in response to competitive market conditions or othermacroeconomic factors, such as increased taxes, inflation, or tariffs, and our ability to control costs, including ouroperating expenses; • our revenue mix, which drives gross profit; • supply of advertising inventory on our platform and advertiser demand for such inventory; • seasonal, cyclical, or other shifts in revenue from advertising or product sales; • the timing of the launch of new or updated products, apps, or features; • the addition or removal of content or apps from our streaming platform; 44
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Table of Contents • the expense and availability of content to license or produce for The Roku Channel; • the ability of retailers to anticipate consumer demand; • an increase in the manufacturing or component costs of our products or partner-branded products; • delays in delivery of our products or partner-branded products, or disruptions in our or our partners’ supply ordistribution chains; and • an increase in legal costs, including costs associated with protecting our intellectual property, defending against intellectual property infringement allegations, or procuring rights to intellectual property. See also “—The market price of our Class A common stock has been, and may continue to be, volatile, and the value of ourClass A common stock may decline.” Our gross margins vary across our devices and platform offerings. Our devices segment experienced negative gross margin for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and our platform segment experienced positive gross margin for the threemonths ended March 31, 2025. Gross margins on our streaming devices vary across models and can change over time as aresult of product transitions, pricing and configuration changes, component costs, device returns, and other cost fluctuations(including due to the impact of tariffs or other trade restrictions). In addition, our gross margin and operating margin percentages, as well as overall profitability, may be adverselyimpacted as a result of a shift in device, geographic, or retail sales channel mix, component cost increases, price competition,or the introduction of new products, including those that have higher cost structures with flat or reduced pricing. We have in the past and may in the future strategically reduce our devices gross margin or record negative gross margin on devices in aneffort to grow our user base and gross profit. As a result, our devices segment revenue may not increase as rapidly as it has in the past, or at all, and, unless we areable to continue to increase our platform segment revenue and grow our user base, we may be unable to grow gross profit and our business will be harmed. For example, from time to time, global supply chain disruptions have resulted in shippingdelays, increased shipping costs, component shortages, and increases in component prices, which negatively affected ourdevices gross margin. If a reduction in devices gross margin does not result in an increase in our user base or an increase inour platform revenue and gross profit, our financial results may suffer, and our business may be harmed. In addition, our platform segment has experienced in the past, and may experience in the future, lower gross margins than we anticipate. Ifour platform gross margins are lower than we anticipate, our financial results may suffer, and our business may be harmed. If we have difficulty managing our growth in operating expenses, our business could be harmed. From time to time, we have experienced significant growth in our research and development, sales and marketing, support services, operations, and general and administrative functions, and we may expand certain of these activities in thefuture. Our historical growth has placed, and any future growth will continue to place, significant demands on ourmanagement, as well as our financial and operational resources, to: • manage a larger organization; • hire more employees, including engineers with relevant skills and experience; • expand internationally; • increase our sales and marketing efforts; • expand the capacity to manufacture and distribute our products; • broaden our customer support capabilities; • expand our product offerings; • support our licensed Roku TV partners; • expand and improve the content offering on our streaming platform; • implement appropriate operational and financial systems; and • maintain effective financial disclosure controls and procedures. If we fail to manage our growth effectively, including if we grow our business too rapidly, we may not be able to execute our business strategies, which could harm our business and adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations, orcash flows. We have previously undertaken restructuring plans to adjust our investment priorities and manage our operatingexpenses, and we may do so again in the future. We have incurred, and may in the future incur, material costs and charges in connection with restructuring plans and initiatives, and there can be no assurance that any restructuring plans and initiativeswill be successful. Any restructuring plans may adversely affect our internal programs and our ability to recruit and retainskilled and motivated personnel, may result in a loss of continuity, loss of accumulated knowledge, or inefficiency during transitional periods, may require a significant amount of employees’ time and focus, and may be distracting to employees,which may divert attention from operating and growing our business. For more information, see Note 16 to the condensedconsolidated financial statements in Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report. 45
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Table of Contents If we fail to achieve some or all of the expected benefits of any restructuring plans or are unable to manage our growthand expansion plans effectively, which may be impacted by factors outside of our control, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected. We may be unable to successfully expand our international operations, and our international expansion plans,if implemented, will subject us to a variety of risks that may harm our business.* We currently generate the vast majority of our revenue in the United States and have limited experience marketing, selling, licensing, and supporting our products and running or monetizing our streaming platform outside the United States. Inaddition, we have limited experience managing the administrative aspects of a global organization. While we intend tocontinue to explore opportunities to expand our business in international markets in which we see compelling opportunities,we may not be able to create or maintain international market demand for our products and streaming platform services. Moreover, we face intense competition in international markets, especially because some of our competitors have alreadysuccessfully introduced their products into new markets we are entering, have greater experience managing a globalorganization, and have greater resources. In the course of expanding our international operations, we are subject to a variety of risks that could adversely affect our business, including: • differing and evolving legal and regulatory requirements in foreign jurisdictions, including laws and regulationspertaining to data privacy and security, consumer protection, tax, telecommunications, trade (including tariffs, quotas, and sanctions), labor, environmental protection, censorship and other content restrictions, AI technologies,intellectual property, and local content and advertising requirements, among others; • exposure to increased corruption risk and compliance with laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UKBribery Act, and other anti-corruption laws, U.S. or foreign export controls and sanctions, and local laws requiring the maintenance of accurate books and records and a system of sufficient internal controls; • slower consumer adoption and acceptance of streaming devices and services in other countries; • different or unique competitive pressures, including as a result of competition with other devices that consumersmay use to stream TV or existing local traditional TV services and products, including those provided by incumbent TV service providers and local consumer electronics companies; • greater difficulty supporting and localizing Roku streaming devices and our streaming platform, including deliveringsupport and training documentation in languages other than English; • our ability to deliver or provide access to popular streaming apps or content to users in certain international markets; • availability of reliable broadband connectivity in areas targeted for expansion; • challenges and costs associated with staffing and managing foreign operations; • differing legal and court systems, including limited or unfavorable intellectual property protection; • unstable political and economic conditions, social unrest, or economic instability, including due to pandemics,natural disasters, wars, terrorist activity, foreign invasions (such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine), tariffs, tradedisputes, local or global recessions, diplomatic or economic tensions (such as the tension between China andTaiwan and the tension in the Middle East), long-term environmental risks, or climate change; • adverse tax consequences, such as those related to changes in tax laws (including increased tax rates, theimposition of digital services taxes, and the adoption of global corporate minimum taxes and anti-base-erosionrules), changes in the interpretation of existing tax laws, and the heightened scrutiny by tax administrators ofcompanies that have cross-border business activities; • the imposition of customs duties on cross-border data flows for streaming services, such as in the event that theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) fails to extend the current moratorium on such duties or the moratorium is appliedonly among WTO member states that support a new e-commerce agreement; • pandemics or epidemics, which could result in decreased economic activity in certain markets, changes in the use of our products or platform, or decreased ability to import, export, ship, or sell our products to supply such servicesto existing or new customers in international markets; • inflationary pressures, which may increase costs for materials, supplies, and services; • fluctuations in currency exchange rates, which could impact the revenue and expenses of our international operations and expose us to foreign currency exchange rate risk (see the section titled “Foreign CurrencyExchange Rate Risk” in Part I, Item 3 of this Quarterly Report); • restrictions on the repatriation of earnings from certain jurisdictions; and • working capital constraints. In addition, we may face challenges in successfully deploying our three-phased business model—grow scale, growengagement, and grow monetization—in international markets. Even if we are able to increase our user base in internationalmarkets, we may be unable to effectively grow our Streaming Hours or monetize user activity in those markets. If we invest substantial time and resources to expand our international operations and are unable to do so successfully and in a timelymanner, our business and financial condition may be harmed. 46
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Table of Contents Our revenue and gross profit are subject to seasonality and other potential fluctuations, and if our sales duringthe affected periods fall below our expectations, our business may be harmed. Seasonality and certain one-time events significantly affect our business. For example, our revenue and gross profit aretraditionally strongest in the fourth quarter of each fiscal year due to higher consumer purchases and increased advertisingduring holiday seasons. Furthermore, in preparation for the fourth quarter holiday season, we recognize significant discountsin the average selling prices of our products through retailers in an effort to grow our user base, which typically reduce our devices gross margin in the fourth quarter. Additionally, certain other events have in the past, and may in the future, impactthe amount of advertising spending on our platform. Given the seasonal and often irregular nature of advertising and our product sales, as well as other potentialfluctuations, accurate forecasting is critical to our operations. We anticipate that such impact on revenue and gross profit is likely to continue, and any shortfall in expected fourth quarter revenue due to a decline in the effectiveness of our promotionalactivities, actions by our competitors, reductions in consumer discretionary spending, curtailed advertising spending,disruptions in our supply or distribution chains, tariffs or other restrictions on trade, increased shipping costs, shipping or airfreight delays, or for any other reason, would cause our full year results of operations to suffer significantly. For example, delays or disruptions at U.S. ports of entry have in the past, and may in the future, adversely affect our or our licensed RokuTV partners’ ability to timely deliver products to retailers during holiday seasons. A substantial portion of our expenses are personnel-related (including salaries, stock-based compensation, and benefits) and facilities-related, none of which are seasonal in nature. Accordingly, in the event of a revenue shortfall, we wouldbe unable to mitigate the negative impact on gross profit and operating margins, at least in the short term, and our businesswould be harmed. If we fail to attract and retain key personnel, effectively manage succession, or hire, develop, and motivate our employees, we may not be able to execute our business strategy or continue to grow our business. Our success depends in large part on our ability to attract and retain key personnel on our senior management teamand in our engineering, research and development, sales and marketing, operations, and other organizations. In particular,our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Wood, is critical to our overall management, as well as the continued development of our products and streaming platform, our culture, and our strategic direction. We do not have long-term employment or non-competition agreements with any of our key personnel. The loss of one or more of our executiveofficers or the inability to promptly identify a suitable successor to a key role could have an adverse effect on our business. Our ability to compete and grow depends in large part on the efforts and talents of our employees. Labor is subject to external factors that are beyond our control, including our industry’s highly competitive market for skilled workers and leaders,cost inflation, workforce participation rates, and unstable political conditions. Our employees, particularly engineers and otherproduct developers, are in demand, and we devote significant resources to identifying, hiring, training, successfully integrating, and retaining these employees. To attract top talent, we generally offer competitive compensation packagesbefore we can validate the productivity of those employees. In addition, some companies offer a remote or hybrid workenvironment, which may increase the competition for employees from employers outside of our traditional office locations. Toretain employees, we have in the past and may in the future need to increase our employee compensation levels or other benefits in response to competition and other business and macroeconomic factors. The loss of employees or the inability tohire additional skilled employees necessary to support our growth could result in significant disruptions to our business, andthe integration of replacement personnel could be time-consuming and expensive and cause disruptions. We believe a critical component to our success and our ability to retain our best people is our culture. As we continue to grow, we may find it difficult to maintain our entrepreneurial, execution-focused culture. In addition, past or any additionalworkforce reductions could harm employee morale and negatively impact employee recruiting and retention. We need to maintain operational and financial systems that can support our expected growth, increasinglycomplex business arrangements, and rules governing revenue and expense recognition, and any inability or failure to do so could adversely affect our financial reporting, billing, and payment services. We have a complex business that is growing in size and complexity both in the United States and in internationaljurisdictions. To manage our growth and our increasingly complex business operations, especially as we move into newmarkets internationally or acquire new businesses, we will need to maintain and may need to upgrade our operational and financial systems and procedures, which requires management time and may result in significant additional expense. Ourbusiness arrangements with our content partners, advertisers, licensed Roku TV partners, and other licensees, and the rulesthat govern revenue and expense recognition in our business, are increasingly complex. To manage the expected growth of our operations and increasing complexity, we must maintain operational andfinancial systems, procedures, and controls and continue to increase systems automation to reduce reliance on manualoperations. An inability to do so will negatively affect our financial reporting, billing, and payment services. Our current andplanned systems, procedures, and controls may not be adequate to support our complex arrangements and the rules governing revenue and expense recognition for our future operations and expected growth. Delays or problems associatedwith any improvement or expansion of our operational and financial systems and controls could adversely 47
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Any acquisition could be material to our financial condition and results ofoperations, and any anticipated benefits from an acquisition may never materialize. Acquisitions may require the expenditure of cash, dilutive issuances of equity securities, or the incurrence of debt,which could adversely affect our operating results, result in unfavorable accounting treatment, and expose us to claims anddisputes by third parties, including intellectual property claims. Acquisitions may not generate sufficient financial returns tooffset additional costs and expenses related to the acquisitions. In addition, the process of integrating acquired businesses, products, or technologies may create unforeseen operatingdifficulties and expenditures, in particular when the acquired businesses, products, or technologies involve areas of operationin which we have limited or no prior experience. Acquisitions of businesses, products, or technologies in international markets would involve additional risks, including those related to integration of operations across different cultures and languages,currency risks, and the particular economic, political, and regulatory risks associated with specific countries. We may not beable to address these risks successfully, or at all, without incurring significant costs, delays, or other operational problems,and if we were unable to address such risks successfully, our business could be harmed. Our credit facility provides our lenders with a first-priority lien against substantially all of our assets andcontains financial covenants and other restrictions on our actions that may limit our operational flexibility orotherwise adversely affect our financial condition.* On September 16, 2024, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among us, as borrower, certain of our subsidiaries, as guarantors, the lenders and issuing banks party thereto, and Citibank N.A., as administrativeagent (the “Agent”), providing for (i) a five-year revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $300.0million, and (ii) an uncommitted increase option of up to an additional $300.0 million exercisable upon the satisfaction ofcertain customary conditions. The Credit Agreement provides for a $100.0 million sub-facility for the issuance of letters of credit, and certain existing letters of credit were deemed outstanding under this facility. The Credit Agreement will mature onSeptember 16, 2029. Proceeds from the Credit Agreement may be used for general corporate purposes, including to financeworking capital requirements. As of March 31, 2025, we had not borrowed against the Credit Agreement. The Credit Agreement contains financial covenants requiring the maintenance of a minimum interest coverage ratio anda maximum total net leverage ratio, as well as customary events of default, the occurrence of which could result in amountsborrowed under the Credit Agreement becoming due and payable and remaining commitments terminated prior to the initialtermination date on September 16, 2029. The Credit Agreement also contains a number of customary affirmative and negative covenants that, among other things, impose restrictions, subject to certain exceptions, on indebtedness, liens,fundamental changes, investments, asset dispositions, restricted payments, dividends and distributions, prepayment of otherindebtedness, transactions with affiliates, restrictive agreements, amendments of material documents, and the abandonmentof intellectual property. The obligations under the Credit Agreement, along with certain swap and banking services obligations, are secured by substantially all the assets of us and our subsidiaries that are guarantors under the Credit Agreement, exceptfor certain customary excluded assets. As of March 31, 2025, we were in compliance with all of the covenants of the Credit Agreement. However, if we fail tocomply with the covenants, fail to make payments as specified in the Credit Agreement, or undergo any other event of default contained in the Credit Agreement, the Agent could declare an event of default, which would give it the right to terminate thecommitments to provide additional loans and declare any borrowings outstanding, together with accrued and unpaid interestand fees, to be immediately due and payable. In addition, the Agent would have the right to proceed against the assets weprovided as collateral pursuant to the Credit Agreement. If any future outstanding debt under the Credit Agreement is accelerated, we may not have sufficient cash or be able to sell sufficient assets to repay it, which would harm our businessand financial condition. We may require additional capital to meet our financial obligations and support planned business growth, and this capital might not be available on acceptable terms or at all. We intend to continue to make significant investments to support planned business growth and may require additionalfunds to respond to business challenges, including the need to develop new products and enhance our streaming platform,continue to expand the content on our platform, maintain adequate levels of inventory to support our retail partners’ demand requirements, improve our operating infrastructure, or acquire complementary businesses, personnel, and technologies. Ourprimary uses of cash include operating costs such as personnel-related expenses and capital spending. Our future capitalrequirements may vary materially from those currently planned and will depend on 48
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Table of Contents many factors including our growth rate and the continuing market acceptance of our products and streaming platform, alongwith the timing and effort related to the introduction of new platform features, products, the hiring of experienced personnel, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, as well as overall economic conditions. We may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. If we raise additional funds throughfuture issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our then existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution, andany new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges superior to those of holders of our Class A common stock. Any debt financing we secure could involve additional restrictive covenants relating to our capital raisingactivities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and topursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. If we were to violate such restrictive covenants, we could incurpenalties, increased expenses, and an acceleration of the payment terms of our outstanding debt, which could in turn harm our business. Our Credit Agreement matures on September 16, 2029. While we may enter into a new credit agreement in the future,we currently have no other committed source of financing, and we may not be able to obtain additional financing on termsfavorable to us. Any future credit agreements we may enter into could require a lien on our assets or contain financial covenants and other restrictions that may limit our operational flexibility or otherwise adversely affect our financial condition. Ifwe are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continueto support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired, and our business may be harmed. We maintain cash deposits in excess of federally insured limits. Adverse developments affecting financialinstitutions, including bank failures, could adversely affect our liquidity and financial performance. We maintain domestic cash deposits in Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insured banks that exceed the FDIC insurance limits. We also maintain cash deposits in foreign banks where we operate, some of which are not insured orare only partially insured by the FDIC or similar agencies. Bank failures, events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance, or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, or concerns or rumors about such events, maylead to liquidity constraints. For example, in 2023, Silicon Valley Bank failed and was taken into receivership by the FDIC. The failure of a bank, or other adverse conditions in the financial or credit markets impacting financial institutions at which wemaintain balances, could adversely impact our liquidity and financial performance. There can be no assurance that ourdeposits in excess of the FDIC or other comparable insurance limits will be backstopped by the U.S. or applicable foreigngovernment, or that any bank or financial institution with which we do business will be able to obtain needed liquidity from other banks, government institutions, or by acquisition in the event of a failure or liquidity crisis. Macroeconomic uncertainties can adversely impact our business, results of operations, and financialcondition.* Macroeconomic uncertainties, such as volatility in financial markets, higher inflation and interest rates, potentialeconomic slowdown or recession, geopolitical developments, changes in economic or government policies (including theunknown impact of tariffs), and global supply chain constraints have in the past adversely impacted, and may in the futureadversely impact, our business, results of operations, and financial condition. For example, tariffs and other trade barriers or restrictions could increase our costs, as well as the costs of our contractmanufacturers and our licensed Roku TV partners, and decrease our devices gross margins. See also “—Changes in U.S. orforeign trade policies, geopolitical conditions, general economic conditions, and other factors beyond our control mayadversely impact our business and operating results.” Our business is dependent on consumer discretionary spending and advertising spending, both of which are susceptible to changes in macroeconomic conditions and uncertainties. Sustainedinflation, an economic downturn, the impact of tariffs, or even the public perception that changes to the cost of buying goodsare imminent or could occur in the future, have in the past resulted, and may in the future result, in fewer consumer purchasesof our products or the products of our licensed Roku TV partners and reduced advertising spending. At times, advertising budgets in a variety of industries have been pressured by factors such as inflation, rising interest rates, and marketuncertainty, which has led to reduced advertiser spending and adversely affected our platform revenue. Any pullback inconsumer discretionary spending or advertising spending could adversely affect our future operating results. The extent to which macroeconomic uncertainties may impact our operational and financial performance is uncertain and will depend on many factors outside our control. These direct and indirect impacts may negatively affect our business andoperating results. Natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, or other natural or man-made catastrophic events could disrupt and impact our business. Occurrence of any catastrophic event, including an earthquake, flood, tsunami, or other weather event, power loss,internet failure, software or hardware malfunctions, cybersecurity attack, war or foreign invasion (such as the Russianinvasion of Ukraine and the conflicts in the Middle East), terrorist attack and other geopolitical conflicts (such as Yemen’s Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, or potential retaliatory actions from foreign governments in response to the current U.S.Administration’s actions), medical epidemic or pandemic (such as the COVID-19 pandemic), government shutdown orders,other man-made disasters, or other catastrophic events could disrupt our, our business partners’ and 49
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Table of Contents customers’ business operations or result in disruptions in the broader global economic environment. Any of these businessdisruptions could require substantial expenditures and recovery time in order to fully resume operations. In particular, our principal offices are located in California, and our contract manufacturers and some of our suppliersare located in Asia, both of which are regions known for seismic activity, making our operations in these areas vulnerable tonatural disasters or other business disruptions in these areas. Our insurance coverage may not compensate us for losses thatmay occur in the event of an earthquake or other significant natural disaster. For example, a recent earthquake damaged equipment in our Taiwan office, and the losses, while relatively minor, were not covered by our insurance. In addition, our offices and facilities, and those of our contract manufacturers, suppliers, and licensed Roku TV partners,could be vulnerable to the effects of climate change (such as sea level rise, drought, flooding, wildfires, and increased stormseverity) that could disrupt our business operations. For example, in California, increasing intensity of drought and annual periods of wildfire danger increase the probability of planned power outages. Further, acts of terrorism could causedisruptions to the internet or the economy as a whole. If our streaming platform was to fail or be negatively impacted as a result of a natural disaster or other event, our abilityto deliver streaming content, including advertising, to our users would be impaired. Disruptions in the operations of our contract manufacturers, suppliers, or licensed Roku TV partners as a result of a disaster or other catastrophic event coulddelay the manufacture and shipment of our products or the products of our licensed Roku TV partners, which could impactour business. If we are unable to develop adequate plans to ensure that our business functions continue to operate during and after a natural disaster or other catastrophic event and to execute successfully on those plans in the event of a disaster orcatastrophic event, our business would be harmed. Risks Related to Cybersecurity, Reliability, and Data Privacy Data security incidents, including cybersecurity attacks, or other significant disruptions of our information technology systems could harm our reputation, cause us to modify our business practices, and otherwise adverselyaffect our business and subject us to liability. We depend on information technology systems and infrastructure to operate our business. In the ordinary course of ourbusiness, we collect, store, process, and transmit large amounts of sensitive corporate, personal, and other information, including intellectual property, proprietary business information, user payment card information, user video and audiorecordings, other user information, employee information, and other confidential information. It is critical that we do so in asecure manner to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of such information. Our obligations under applicablelaws, regulations, contracts, industry standards, self-certifications, and other documentation may include maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal information in our possession or control, maintaining reasonable andappropriate security safeguards as part of an information security program, and complying with requirements regarding theuse or cross-border transfer of such personal information. These obligations create potential legal liability to regulators, our business partners, our users, and other stakeholders and impact the attractiveness of our services to existing and potentialusers. Data protection laws around the world often require “reasonable,” “appropriate,” or “adequate” technical andorganizational security measures, and the interpretation and application of those laws are often uncertain and evolving, andthere can be no assurance that our security measures will be deemed adequate, appropriate, or reasonable by a regulator or court. Moreover, even security measures that are deemed appropriate, reasonable, or in accordance with applicable legalrequirements may not be able to protect the information we maintain. In addition, each U.S. state and most U.S. territories, each EU member state, and the United Kingdom, as well as manyother foreign nations, have passed laws requiring notification to regulatory authorities, affected users, or others within a specific timeframe when there has been a security breach involving, or other unauthorized access to or acquisition ordisclosure of, certain personal information and impose additional obligations on companies. In addition to potential fines, wecould be subject to mandatory corrective action due to a data security incident, and any failure to maintain performance,reliability, security, and availability of our network infrastructure to the satisfaction of our users, business partners, regulators, or other relevant stakeholders may harm our reputation and our ability to retain existing users and attract new users, as wellas adversely affect our business operations and result in substantial costs. These obligations create potential legal liability toregulators, our business partners, our users, and other stakeholders and impact the attractiveness of our services to existingand potential users. We have outsourced or may outsource certain elements of our operations (including elements of our informationtechnology infrastructure) to third parties, or may have incorporated technology into our platform, that collects, processes,transmits, and stores our users’ or others’ personal information (such as payment card information and user video and audio recordings), and as a result, we manage a number of third-party vendors and other partners who may or could have access toour information technology systems (including our computer networks) or to our confidential information. In addition, many ofthose third parties in turn subcontract or outsource some of their responsibilities to third parties. As a result, our informationtechnology systems, including the functions of third parties that are involved in or have access to those systems, are very large and complex. 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Vulnerabilities can be, and have been, exploited frominadvertent or intentional actions of our employees, third-party vendors, business partners, or by malicious third parties. Open-source software, which may be incorporated into our systems or products, inherently presents a large attack surfaceand may contain vulnerabilities of which we are not aware and which we cannot control or fully mitigate. Moreover, AItechnologies may be used to implement certain cybersecurity attacks or to increase their intensity, which may further increaserisk. While we have processes in place to mitigate the risks related to these vulnerabilities, these measures may not be adequately designed or implemented to ensure that our operations are not disrupted, our reputation is not harmed, or that wewill not be impacted by ransomware, cybersecurity attacks, or other vulnerabilities in the future. For example, despite ourefforts to secure our information technology systems and the data contained in those systems, we and our third-party vendors and business partners have experienced, and remain vulnerable to, data security incidents, including ransomware, phishingattacks, bot attacks, credential stuffing attacks, improper employee access of confidential data, and inadvertent employeedisclosure of confidential data. There is no way of knowing with certainty whether we have experienced any data securityincidents that have not been discovered. While we have no reason to believe that we have experienced a data security incident that we have not discovered, we note that attackers continue to advance the ways they conceal their unauthorizedaccess to systems. Malicious attacks are increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication, and intensity, and are beingconducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives (including, but not limited to, industrial espionage) and expertise, including organized criminal groups, “hacktivists,” nation states, and others. Thegeopolitical conflicts stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the current unrest in the Middle East have increasedthe risk of malicious attacks on information technology operations globally, including for companies headquartered in theUnited States, that could materially disrupt our systems and operations, supply chain, and ability to produce, sell, and distribute our devices and services. Any attempts by threat actors to disrupt our streaming platform, streaming devices, smarthome products, website, computer systems, or mobile apps, if successful, could harm our business, subject us to liability, beexpensive to remedy, cause harm to our systems and operations, damage our reputation, and could result in contractual damages, litigation, governmental inquiries and investigations, enforcement actions, and regulatory notification requirements,fines, and penalties that could harm our business. For example, in the wake of a data breach involving payment card data, wemay be subject to substantial penalties for failure to adhere to the technical or operational security requirements of thePayment Card Industry (“PCI”) Data Security Standards (“DSS”) imposed by the PCI Council to protect cardholder data. Penalties arising from PCI DSS enforcement are inherently uncertain as penalties may be imposed by various entities withinthe payment card processing chain without regard to any statutory or universally mandated framework. Such enforcementcould threaten our relationship with our banks, card brands we do business with, and our third-party payment processors. Most of our employees have a hybrid work schedule (consisting of both in-person work and working from home). Although we have implemented work from home protocols, the actions of our employees while working from home may havea greater effect on the security of our systems and the data we process, including by increasing the risk of compromise to oursystems, intellectual property, or data arising from employees’ combined use of personal and private devices, accessing oursystems or data using wireless networks that we do not control, or the ability to transmit or store company-controlled data outside of our secured network. The limitations of liability in our contracts related to our information technology systems may not be enforceable oradequate or otherwise protect us from liabilities or damages. While we maintain insurance policies to cover certain lossesrelating to our information technology systems, there may be exceptions. Security incidents or certain aspects of security incidents may not be fully covered by our insurance policies or covered at all. Additionally, insurance policies will not protectagainst the reputational harms caused by a major security incident. The successful assertion of one or more large claimsagainst us that exceeds our available insurance coverage, or results in changes to our insurance policies (including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements), could have an adverse effect on our business.Further, we cannot be sure that our existing insurance coverage and coverage for errors and omissions will continue to beavailable on acceptable terms or that our insurers will not deny coverage as to any future claim. We and our service providers and partners collect, process, transmit, disclose, and store personal information, which creates legal obligations and exposes us to potential liability. We and our service providers and partners collect, process, transmit, disclose, and store personal information ofindividuals. We collect such information from individuals located both in the United States and abroad and may store orprocess such information outside the country in which it was collected. Various federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations as well as industry standards and contractual obligations govern the collection, processing, retention, 51
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Table of Contents protection, disclosure, cross-border transfer, localization, and storage of such personal information. These regulatoryrequirements are evolving, and data privacy compliance is an area of increasing scrutiny for privacy and consumer rights groups and government bodies. For example, in addition to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the UKGeneral Data Protection Regulation, and Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, various U.S. states have enacted broad-based privacy and data protection legislation, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Montana,Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, and more states are expected to follow suit. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, expenses to comply with privacy and security standards and protocolsimposed by law, regulation, industry standards, and contractual obligations. We continue to monitor the implementation,enforcement, interpretation, and evolution of these laws and regulations, but they are still rapidly evolving and, as a result,their application, interpretation, and enforcement are uncertain, and they may be interpreted and applied inconsistently with our current policies and practices. In such event, we may be subject to significant fines and penalties (such as restrictions onpersonal information processing) or claims for damages from private litigants, or we may be required to make changes to ourpolicies and operations, including the manner in which we provide our services or use our user data, and our business,financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed. We continue to assess the available regulatory guidance, determinations, and enforcement actions on international datatransfer compliance for companies. As part of our data protection compliance program, we have implemented data transfermechanisms to provide for the transfer of personal information from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom to the United States. We have joined the EU, Swiss, and UK Data Privacy Framework programs to facilitate transfers of non-HRpersonal data to the United States from these jurisdictions. Our ability to continue to transfer personal information outside ofthe EU may become significantly more costly and may subject us to increased scrutiny and liability under the GDPR or otherlegal frameworks, and we may experience operating disruptions if we are unable to conduct these transfers in the future. In addition, some countries are considering or have enacted “data localization” laws requiring that user data regarding users intheir respective countries be maintained, stored, or processed in their respective countries. Maintaining local data centers inindividual countries could increase our operating costs significantly. We, our service providers and partners use tracking technologies to collect information about users’ interactions with our platform, devices, websites, apps, and partners’ digital properties, and deliver advertising and personalized content forourselves and on behalf of our partners. To personalize content and advertisements effectively, we must leverage this data, aswell as data provided by third parties. The U.S. federal government, U.S. states, and foreign governments have enacted (orare considering) laws and regulations that could significantly restrict us and other advertising industry participants’ ability to collect, use, retain, and disclose personal information. For example, some of these laws and regulations may require moreexplicit consumer notice and consent for using tracking technology or collecting sensitive personal information, restrictdisclosure of personal information between companies, or grant consumers the right to delete or limit the collection and use of their personal information. Our ability to collect, use and retain such data could also be further restricted by our agreementswith advertisers and content partners. Any restrictions on our ability to collect, use, or retain data is likely to increase the number of users to whom we cannotserve targeted advertising, which could make our platform less attractive to advertisers and partners, and harm our ability to grow our revenue, particularly our platform revenue which depends on effective delivery of advertising campaigns. We arecontinuing to assess the impact of new and proposed privacy and data protection laws on our business. Any significant disruption in our information technology systems or those of third parties we utilize in ouroperations could result in a loss or degradation of service on our platform and could harm our business. We rely on the expertise of our engineering and software development teams as well as the teams of our serviceproviders and partners for the performance and operation of the Roku TV OS, streaming platform, smart home products, andother information technology systems. Service interruptions, errors in our software, or the unavailability of informationtechnology systems used in our operations could diminish the overall attractiveness of our products and streaming platform to existing and potential users or otherwise disrupt our business. We utilize information technology systems located either in ourfacilities or those of third-party server hosting providers and third-party internet-based or cloud computing services. Althoughwe generally enter into service level agreements with these parties, we exercise no control over their operations, whichmakes us vulnerable to any errors, interruptions, or delays that they may experience. Upon the expiration or termination of any of our agreements with third-party vendors, we may not be able to replacetheir services in a timely manner or on terms and conditions, including service levels and cost, that are favorable to us, and atransition from one vendor to another vendor could subject us to operational delays and inefficiencies until the transition is complete. In addition, fires, floods, earthquakes, wars, foreign invasions, terrorist activity, power losses, telecommunicationsfailures, break-ins, and similar events could damage these systems and hardware or cause them to fail completely. As we do not maintain entirely redundant systems, a disrupting event could result in prolonged downtime of ouroperations, products, or services, could result in liabilities to our customers or third parties, and could adversely affect our business. Our property insurance and cyber liability insurance may not be sufficient to fully cover our losses or may 52
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To the extent that we or our third-partyservice hosting providers do not effectively address capacity constraints, upgrade or patch systems as needed, andcontinually develop technology and network architecture to accommodate increasingly complex services and functions,increasing numbers of users, and actual and anticipated changes in technology, our business may be harmed. Changes in how network operators manage data that travel across their networks could harm our business. Our business relies upon the ability of our users to access high-quality streaming content through the internet. As aresult, the growth of our business depends on our users’ ability to obtain and maintain high-speed access to the internet atreasonable cost, which relies in part on internet service network operators’ continuing willingness to upgrade and maintain their equipment as well as their continued willingness to preserve the open and interconnected nature of the internet. Weexercise no control over network operators, which makes us vulnerable to any errors, disruptions, or delays in theiroperations, as well as any decision they may make to prioritize the delivery of certain network traffic at the expense of other traffic. Any material disruption or degradation in internet services could harm our business. To the extent that the number of internet users continues to increase, network congestion could adversely affect thereliability of our streaming platform. We may also face increased costs of doing business, or decreased demand for ourservices, if network operators engage in discriminatory practices with respect to streamed video content in an effort to monetize access to their networks or customers by data providers. Certain laws intended to prevent network operators from engaging in discriminatory practices with respect to streamingvideo content have been implemented in many countries, including in the EU. In other countries, laws in this area may benascent or non-existent. Furthermore, favorable laws may change. Given the uncertainty around these laws and the rules that implement them, including changing interpretations, amendments, or repeal, coupled with potentially significant political andeconomic power of network operators, we could experience discriminatory or anti-competitive practices, such as usage-basedpricing, bandwidth caps, zero rating of competing services by ISPs, and traffic “shaping” or throttling, that could impede ourgrowth, result in a decline in our quality of service, cause us to incur additional expense, or otherwise impair our ability to attract and retain users, all of which could harm our business. In addition, most network operators that provide users with access to the internet also offer users multichannel videoprogramming, and some network operators also own streaming services. These network operators have an incentive to use their network infrastructure in a manner adverse to the continued growth and success of other companies seeking todistribute similar video programming. To the extent that network operators are able to provide preferential treatment to theirown data and content, as opposed to ours, our business could be harmed. Risks Related to Intellectual Property Litigation and claims regarding intellectual property rights could result in the loss of rights important to ourproducts and streaming platform, cause us to incur significant legal costs, or otherwise harm our business. Some internet, technology, and media companies, including some of our competitors, own large numbers of patents,copyrights, and trademarks, which they may use to assert claims against us. Third parties have asserted, and may in the future assert, that we have infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated their intellectual property rights. As we grow andface increasing competition, the possibility of intellectual property rights claims against us will grow. Plaintiffs who have norelevant product revenue may not be deterred by our own issued patents and pending patent applications in bringingintellectual property rights claims against us and may seek to challenge the validity or enforceability of our own patents and patents applications. The cost of patent litigation or other proceedings, even if resolved in our favor, has been and is expectedto be substantial. Some of our competitors may be better able to sustain the costs of such litigation or proceedings because oftheir substantially greater financial resources. Patent litigation and other proceedings may also require significantmanagement time and divert management’s attention from our other business concerns or otherwise adversely affect our business and operating results. Uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of patent litigation or otherproceedings could impair our ability to compete in the marketplace. The occurrence of any of the foregoing could harm ourbusiness. As a result of intellectual property infringement claims, or to avoid potential claims, we may choose or be required toseek licenses from third parties. These licenses may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, therebyhindering our ability to sell or use the relevant technology or requiring redesign of the allegedly infringing solutions to avoidinfringement, which could be costly, time ‐ consuming, or impossible. Even if we are able to obtain a license, the license would likely obligate us to pay license fees or royalties or both, and the rights granted to us might be nonexclusive, with the potentialfor our competitors to gain access to the same intellectual property. 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For example, we have in the past elected to develop andimplement specific design changes to address potential risks that certain products could otherwise become subject toexclusion or cease and desist orders arising from patent infringement and other intellectual property claims brought to theU.S. International Trade Commission. In addition, any lawsuits regarding intellectual property rights, regardless of their success, could be expensive to resolve and would divert the time and attention of our management and technical personnel. If we fail to, or are unable to, protect or enforce our intellectual property or proprietary rights, our business andoperating results could be harmed. We regard the protection of our patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, domain names, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights as critical to our success. We strive to protect our intellectual property rights byrelying on federal, state, and common law rights, as well as contractual restrictions. We seek to protect our confidentialproprietary information, in part, by entering into confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements with all of our employees, consultants, contractors, advisors, and any third parties who have access to our proprietary know-how,information, or technology. However, we cannot be certain that we have executed such agreements with all parties who may have helped todevelop our intellectual property or who had access to our proprietary information, nor can we be certain that our agreements will not be breached. Any party with whom we have executed such an agreement could potentially breach that agreement anddisclose our proprietary information, including our trade secrets, and we may not be able to discover such breaches, and if wedo, we may not be able to obtain adequate remedies for such breaches. We cannot guarantee that our trade secrets andother confidential proprietary information will not be disclosed or that competitors will not otherwise gain access to our trade secrets or independently develop substantially equivalent information and techniques. Detecting the disclosure ormisappropriation of a trade secret and enforcing a claim that a party illegally disclosed or misappropriated a trade secret isdifficult, time-consuming, and could result in substantial costs, and the outcome of such a claim is unpredictable. Further, the laws of certain foreign countries do not provide the same level of protection of corporate proprietary information and assets such as intellectual property, trademarks, trade secrets, know-how, and records as the laws of theUnited States. For instance, the legal systems of certain countries, particularly certain developing countries, do not favor theenforcement of patents and other intellectual property protection. As a result, we may encounter significant problems in protecting and defending our intellectual property or proprietary rights abroad. Additionally, we may also be exposed tomaterial risks of theft, counterfeiting, or unauthorized reverse engineering of our proprietary information and other intellectualproperty, including technical data, manufacturing processes, data sets, or other sensitive information. Our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights in such foreign countries may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the intellectual property that we develop, which could have a material adverse effect on ourbusiness, financial condition, and results of operations. Moreover, if we are unable to prevent the disclosure of our tradesecrets to third parties, or if our competitors independently develop any of our trade secrets, we may not be able to establishor maintain a competitive advantage in our market, which could harm our business. There can be no assurance that the particular forms of intellectual property protection that we seek, including businessdecisions about when to file patents and when to maintain trade secrets, will be adequate to protect our business. We havefiled and will in the future file patent applications on inventions that we deem to be innovative. There is no guarantee that ourpatent applications will issue as granted patents, that the scope of the protection gained will be sufficient or that an issued patent may subsequently be deemed invalid or unenforceable. U.S. patent laws, and the scope of coverage afforded by them,have been subject to significant changes, such as the change to “first-to-file” from “first-to-invent” resulting from the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. This change in the determination of inventorship may result in inventors and companies having tofile patent applications more frequently to preserve rights in their inventions, which may favor larger competitors that have the resources to file more patent applications. Another change to the patent laws may incentivize third parties to challenge anyissued patent in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), as opposed to having to bring such an action inU.S. federal court. Foreign patent laws may also continue to develop and significantly impact our ability to protect or maintain our intellectual property. Any invalidation of a patent claim could have a significant impact on our ability to protect theinnovations contained within our products and platform and could harm our business. The USPTO and various foreign governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural,documentary, fee payment, and other provisions to maintain patent applications and issued patents. We may fail to take the necessary actions and pay the applicable fees to obtain or maintain our patents. Noncompliance with these requirements canresult in abandonment or lapse of a patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of 54
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In particular, our actions to monitor and enforce our trademarks againstthird parties may not prevent counterfeit versions of our products or products bearing confusingly similar trademarks to oursfrom entering the marketplace, which could divert sales from us, tarnish our reputation, or reduce the demand for our products. In some circumstances, we may choose to not pursue enforcement because an infringer has a dominant intellectualproperty position or for other business reasons. Litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property or proprietary rights, protect our trade secrets, ordetermine the validity and scope of proprietary rights claimed by others. Any litigation of this nature, regardless of outcome or merit, could result in substantial costs, adverse publicity, or diversion of management and technical resources, any of whichcould adversely affect our business and operating results. If we fail to maintain, protect, and enhance our intellectual propertyor proprietary rights, our business may be harmed. Our use of open-source software could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our products andour streaming platform or could result in public disclosure of competitively sensitive trade secrets. We incorporate open-source software in our proprietary software. From time to time, companies that have incorporatedopen-source software into their products and services have faced claims challenging the ownership of certain open-source software or compliance with open-source software license terms. Therefore, we could be subject to similar suits by partiesclaiming ownership of what we believe to be open-source software or our noncompliance with the open-source softwarelicense terms. Although we have processes and procedures designed to help monitor our use of open-source software, these processes and procedures may not be followed appropriately or may fail to identify risks. Additionally, the terms of manyopen-source software licenses have not been interpreted by U.S. courts, and there is a risk that such licenses could beconstrued in a manner that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our products or technology or imposeunanticipated obligations that could require the disclosure of trade secrets. Some open ‐ source software is governed by licenses containing conditions that any person who distributes or uses a modification or derivative work of software that wassubject to an open ‐ source license make the modified version subject to the same open ‐ source license. Distributing or usingsoftware that is subject to this kind of open ‐ source license can lead to a requirement that certain aspects of our solutions be distributed or made available in source code form. In such event, we could be required to make portions of our proprietarysoftware generally available under similar open-source software license terms to third parties, including competitors, at low orno cost, to seek licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products, to re-engineer our products, or todiscontinue the sale of our products in the event re-engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis or at all, any of which could harm our business. Further, use of open ‐ source software can involve greater risks than those associated with use of third ‐ party commercialsoftware, as open ‐ source licensors generally do not provide warranties, assurances of title, performance, non ‐ infringement,or controls on the origin of the software. Open ‐ source software typically lacks support, and authors of such open ‐ source software may abandon further development and maintenance. Open ‐ source software may contain security vulnerabilities andother liabilities, and we may be subject to additional security risk by using open ‐ source software. We have establishedprocesses to help alleviate these risks, but there can be no assurance that these processes will alleviate all risks with theopen ‐ source software we incorporate. Under our agreements with many of our content partners, licensees, distributors, retailers, contractmanufacturers, and suppliers, we are required to provide indemnification in the event our technology is alleged toinfringe upon the intellectual property rights of third parties. In certain of our agreements, we indemnify our content partners, licensees, distributors, retailers, manufacturing partners, and suppliers. We have in the past, and may in the future, incur significant expenses defending these partners ifthey are sued for patent or other property infringement based on allegations related to our technology. If a partner were tolose a lawsuit and in turn seek indemnification from us, we also could be subject to significant monetary liabilities. In addition, because the devices sold by our licensing partners and licensed Roku TV partners often involve the use of third-partytechnology, this increases our exposure to litigation in circumstances where there is a claim of infringement asserted againstthe streaming device in question, even if the claim does not pertain to our technology. Liability under our indemnificationcommitments may not be contractually limited. 55
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If we fail to meet our contractual commitments or otherwise fail to comply with our contractual obligations, then wecould be subject to breach of contract or other claims. Any claims, proceedings, individual or mass arbitration demands, or inquiries or investigations initiated by or against us, whether successful or not, may be time-consuming, subject us to damageawards, regulatory orders, consent decrees, injunctive relief, fines, or other penalties or sanctions, require us to change ourpolicies or practices, result in increased operating costs, divert management’s attention, harm our reputation, and require usto incur significant legal fees, other litigation costs and settlement costs, as well as other expenses. In addition, our insurance may not be adequate to protect us from all material expenses related to pending and future claims. Any of these factors couldmaterially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. If government regulations or laws relating to the internet, video, advertising, or other areas of our business change, we may need to alter the manner in which we conduct our business, or our business could be harmed. We are subject to or affected by general business regulations and laws, as well as regulations and laws specific to theinternet and online services, including laws and regulations related to data privacy and security, consumer protection, childand youth protection, data localization, encryption, telecommunications, social media, payment processing, subscriptions, taxation, trade, intellectual property, competition, electronic contracts, internet access, net neutrality, advertising, calling andtexting, content restrictions, protection of minors, and accessibility, among others. We have been, and may be in the future,subject to claims or governmental or regulatory inquiries and investigations with regard to our compliance with suchregulations and laws. Some of our business activities may be within the scope of existing or proposed laws and regulations intended toprotect minors online. In this regard, examples of potentially applicable laws and regulations include the UK Age-AppropriateDesign Code, UK Online Safety Act, the Irish Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing, various minor-specific provisions of the GDPR and EU Digital Services Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, age-appropriate design code style laws at the state level, and minor-specific provisions of state consumer privacy laws. Many states have alsoincorporated children’s privacy requirements into their laws. This is a rapidly evolving area of law and regulation, and the needto comply with this growing body of laws across the jurisdictions in which we operate could impact our business and require us to incur additional expenses for compliance. Additionally, there have been a dramatic rise in claims asserted under variousunsettled laws in the United States, including the Video Privacy Protection Act, which provides a private right of action andallows for statutory damages, actual damages, and, in certain cases, attorneys’ fees, and other similar U.S. state videoprivacy laws. As we develop new products and services and improve our streaming platform, we may also be subject to new lawsand regulations specific to new technologies that may require us to make changes to our business practices, and failure toadequately address or comply with such laws and regulations may result in legal liability, regulatory action, or brand andreputational harm. For example, to the extent that we incorporate generative AI into our products and services, we will be subject to the evolving legal and regulatory landscape surrounding generative AI technologies. Various national and localgovernments have proposed or enacted measures that impose new and substantial obligations related to the use ofgenerative AI systems, including the EU, California, Colorado, and Utah. The laws and regulations governing our industry are still evolving and, as a result, their application, interpretation and enforcement are uncertain, and they may be interpreted and applied inconsistently with our current policies and practices. Alllitigation and regulatory proceedings are inherently uncertain, and the federal, state, and foreign laws and regulationsgoverning such issues continue to develop. See also “—We and our service providers and partners collect, process, transmit,disclose, and store personal information, which creates legal obligations and exposes us to potential liability.” Regulatory inquiries, investigations, and enforcement actions could also adversely impact our business operations. For example, we andother companies in the media, entertainment, and advertising technology industries have been subject to governmentinquiries and investigations by regulatory bodies with regard to our compliance with privacy and data security laws, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and other applicable laws and regulations. Advocacy organizations have also filed complaintswith data protection authorities against businesses with streaming apps and advertising technology, arguing that certain ofthese companies’ practices do not comply with applicable law. The potential effects of such inquiries, investigations, orenforcement actions are far-reaching, uncertain, and difficult to predict, and may require us, our partners, and our advertisers to modify data processing practices and policies and to incur substantial compliance costs and expenses. Furthermore, if weor the third parties that we work with are alleged to violate applicable laws, our contractual obligations, or our policies, ourusers could lose trust in us. Any decrease in user retention, growth, or engagement could render our products less attractiveto users, advertisers, or partners, and would seriously harm our business. 56
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Trade disputes, geopolitical tensions, or political uncertainty can disrupt supply chains and increase the cost of our andour partners’ products, and have a negative impact on consumer confidence, which could impair our future growth andadversely affect our operations, business, financial condition, and results of operations. For example, several countries are considering or have recently implemented tariffs or other trade barriers or restrictions, as well as other measures impactingcross-border commerce, including in response to ongoing and unpredictable changes in U.S. trade policy, which couldnegatively affect our business. Notably, beginning in the first quarter of 2025, the U.S. Administration has announced,delayed, re-imposed and revised a series of broad-based, as well as country-, bloc- and sector-specific, tariffs on goods imported into the United States, as well as other trade policy changes. Such actions have given and may continue to give riseto further escalations of trade measures by the United States and impacted countries. Further, developments with regard tothe timing and manner in which tariffs are implemented, the amount, scope and nature of tariffs, and the countries subject to new or additional tariffs imposed by the United States are rapidly evolving and may change unexpectedly at any time, makingit impossible for us to predict future developments regarding global tariffs or other trade restrictions or their ultimate effects onour business and results of operations. The threat, implementation, or modification of such new import restrictions, as well asany retaliatory measures adopted by affected U.S. trade partners, could increase our costs and otherwise be disruptive to the business environment in which we operate. In addition, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and other countries imposed economic sanctionsand severe export control restrictions against Russia and Belarus, and the United States and other countries could imposewider sanctions and export restrictions and take other actions should the conflict further escalate. Similarly, the effects of Brexit on EU-UK political, trade, economic, and diplomatic relations continue to be uncertain and such impact may not be fullyrealized for several years or more. Continued uncertainty and friction may result in regulatory, operational, and costchallenges to our international operations. Also, various countries, in addition to the United States, regulate the import and export of certain products, commodities, software, and technology, including through import and export licensing requirements, and have enacted lawsthat could limit our ability to distribute our products or collaborate on technology with our commercial or strategic partners, orcould limit the ability of our commercial or strategic partners to implement our products in those countries. Changes in our products or future changes in export and import regulations may create delays in the introduction of our products ininternational markets, disrupt supply chains, prevent our commercial or strategic partners with international operations fromdeploying our products globally, or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our products to certain countries,governments, or persons altogether. Any changes in U.S. or foreign export or import regulations, customs duties, or other restrictions on intangible goods (such as cross-border data flows) could result in decreased use of our products by, or in ourdecreased ability to export or sell our products and services to, existing or new customers in U.S. or international markets orhamper our ability to source products, components, and parts from certain suppliers or lead to potential supply chaindisruptions and business or reputational harms. Any decreased use of our products or limitation on our ability to export, import, or sell our products or services, or source parts or components, could harm our business. Although we attempt to ensure that we, our retailers, and partners comply with the applicable import, export, andsanctions laws, we cannot guarantee full compliance by all. Actions of our retailers and partners are not within our completecontrol, and our products could be re-exported to sanctioned persons or countries or provided by our retailers to third persons in contravention of our requirements or instructions or the laws. In addition, there are inherent limitations to the effectivenessof any policies, procedures, and internal controls relating to such compliance, and there can be no assurance that suchprocedures or internal controls will work effectively at all times or protect us against liability under anti-corruption, sanctions orother laws for actions taken by us, our retailers or partners. Any such potential violation by us, our retailers, or our partners could have negative consequences, including government inquiries, investigations, enforcement actions, monetary fines, orcivil and/or criminal penalties, and our reputation, brand, and revenue may be harmed. The ability of internet access network operators in some jurisdictions to degrade users’ internet speeds or limit internet data consumption by users, including unreasonable discrimination in the provision of broadband internetaccess services, could harm our business. Our products and services depend on the ability of our users to access the internet. We believe that the continuedgrowth of streaming as an entertainment alternative will depend on the availability and growth of cost-effective broadband internet access (including mobile broadband internet access), the quality and reliability of broadband content delivery, andbroadband service providers’ ability to control the delivery speed of different content traveling on their networks. Laws,regulations, or court rulings that adversely affect the popularity or growth in use of the internet, including decisions thatundermine open and neutrally administered internet access, or that disincentivize internet access 57
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If network operators were to engage in restricting, blocking, degrading, or charging for access, it could impede ourgrowth, result in a decline in our quality of service, cause us to incur additional expense, or otherwise impair our ability to attract and retain users, any of which could harm our business. Several states and foreign countries in which we operate alsohave adopted or are considering rules governing the provision of internet access. In addition, in some jurisdictions (includingthe United States), network operators are pursuing proposals that would require or enable them to impose fees on contentproviders related to delivery of network traffic. As we expand internationally, government regulation protecting the non-discriminatory provision of internet access maybe nascent or non-existent. In those markets where regulatory safeguards against unreasonable discrimination are nascent ornon-existent and where local network operators possess substantial market power, we could experience anti-competitive practices that could impede our growth, cause us to incur additional expenses, or otherwise harm our business. Futureregulations or changes in laws and regulations (or their existing interpretations or applications) could also hinder ouroperational flexibility, raise compliance costs, and result in additional liabilities for us, which may harm our business. If we are found liable for content that is distributed through or advertising that is served through our platform, our business could be harmed. As a distributor of content, we face potential liability for negligence, copyright, patent, or trademark infringement, publicperformance royalties or other claims based on the nature and content of materials that we distribute. We rely on the statutorysafe harbors, as set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “DMCA”), Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“Section 230”) in the United States, and the E-Commerce Directive in Europe, for protection against liability for variouscaching, hosting, and linking activities. The DMCA, Section 230, and similar statutes and doctrines on which we rely or mayrely in the future are subject to uncertain judicial interpretation and regulatory and legislative amendments. Any legislation orcourt rulings that limit the applicability of these safe harbors could require us to take a different approach toward content moderation on our platform, which could diminish the depth, breadth, and variety of content that we offer, inhibit our ability togenerate advertising, or otherwise adversely affect our business. Moreover, if the rules around these statutes and doctrines change, if international jurisdictions refuse to apply similar protections, or if a court were to disagree with our application of those rules to our business, we could incur liabilities and ourbusiness could be harmed. If we become liable for these types of claims as a result of the content that is streamed over or theadvertisements that are served through our platform, then our business may suffer. Litigation to defend these claims could becostly and the expenses and damages arising from any liability could harm our business. Our insurance may not be adequate to cover these types of claims or any liability that may be imposed on us. In addition, regardless of any legal protections that may limit our liability for the actions of third parties, we may beadversely impacted if copyright holders assert claims, or commence litigation, alleging copyright infringement against thedevelopers of apps that are distributed on our platform. While our platform policies prohibit streaming content on our platform without distribution rights from the copyrightholder, and we maintain processes and systems for the reporting and removal of infringing content, in certain instances ourplatform has been misused by unaffiliated third parties to unlawfully distribute copyrighted content. If content owners ordistributors are deterred from working with us as a consequence, it could impair our ability to maintain or expand our business, including through international expansion plans. If we fail to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in theaccuracy and completeness of our financial reports and our stock price may be adversely affected. We are required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal control. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 404”) requires that we furnish a report bymanagement on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. This assessment mustinclude disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. Our independent registered public accounting firm also attests to the effectiveness of our internal control over financialreporting. If we have a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting in the future, we may not detect errorson a timely basis, and our financial statements may be materially misstated. Any failure to maintain internal controls over financial reporting could severely inhibit our ability to accurately report our financial condition or results of operations. If we identify material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting,are unable to continue to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner, are unable to assert that ourinternal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting 58
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Table of Contents firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, investors may loseconfidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, and the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected. In addition, we could become subject to investigations by the SEC, The Nasdaq Global SelectMarket, or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources. Our financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles applicable to us. The generally accepted accounting principles in the United States are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the SEC, and other bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accountingprinciples. A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported results of operationsand may even affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement or effectiveness of a change. It isdifficult to predict the impact of future changes to accounting principles or our accounting policies, any of which could harm our business. If we fail to comply with the laws and regulations relating to the payment of income taxes and the collection ofindirect taxes, we could be exposed to unexpected costs, expenses, penalties, and fees, which could harm ourbusiness. We are subject to requirements to deduct or withhold income taxes on revenue sourced in various jurisdictions, payincome taxes on profits earned by any permanent establishment (or similar enterprise) of ours that carries on business invarious jurisdictions, and collect indirect taxes from our sales in various jurisdictions. The laws and regulations governing the withholding and payment of income taxes and the collection of indirect taxes are numerous, complex, and vary by jurisdiction.A successful assertion by one or more jurisdictions that we were required to withhold or pay income taxes or collect indirecttaxes where we did not could result in substantial tax liabilities, fees, and expenses, including substantial interest and penaltycharges, which could harm our business. New legislation that would change U.S. or foreign taxation of international business activities or other tax-reform policies could harm our business. We earn a portion of our income in foreign countries and, as such, we are subject to tax laws in the United States andnumerous foreign jurisdictions. Current economic and political conditions make tax laws and regulations, or their interpretation and application, in any jurisdiction subject to significant change. Proposals to reform U.S. and foreign tax laws could significantly impact how U.S. multinational corporations are taxedon foreign earnings and could increase the U.S. corporate tax rate. Although we cannot predict whether or in what form theseproposals will pass, several of the proposals under consideration, if enacted into law, could have an adverse impact on our effective tax rate, income tax expense, and cash flows. In addition, both tax policy and tax administration are becoming multilateral. This multilateralism and collaborationamong taxing authorities (including the U.S. and many foreign jurisdictions in which we operate) has resulted in proposed new tax measures specifically targeting online commerce, digital services, streaming services, and the remote sale of goods andservices. Some of these measures (such as a global corporate minimum tax) require adoption of local legislation consistentwith the agreed to multilateral framework. Other measures (such as digital services taxes) have already been implementedbut may terminate upon the adoption of multilateral tax rules. The rapid growth of multilateralism in tax administration means greater sharing of tax information among taxingauthorities as well as the likelihood of joint and simultaneous tax audits of companies such as ours who have cross-borderbusiness activities in which the tax administrations may have a common or complementary interest. The results of any suchaudits or related disputes could have an adverse effect on our financial results for the period or periods for which the applicable final determinations are made. For example, we and our subsidiaries are engaged in intercompany transactionsacross multiple tax jurisdictions. Although we believe we have clearly reflected the economics of these transactions and thatthe proper local transfer pricing is in place, tax authorities may propose and sustain adjustments that could result in changesthat may impact our mix of earnings in countries with differing statutory tax rates. Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock The dual class structure of our common stock concentrates voting control with those stockholders who heldour stock prior to our initial public offering, including our executive officers, employees, and directors and theiraffiliates, and limits the ability of holders of our Class A common stock to influence corporate matters.* Our Class B common stock has 10 votes per share, and our Class A common stock has one vote per share. Ourfounder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Wood, holds and controls the vote of a significant number of sharesof our outstanding common stock, and therefore Mr. Wood will have significant influence over our management and all matters requiring stockholder approval, including election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a mergeror other sale of Roku or our assets, for the foreseeable future. If Mr. Wood’s employment with us is terminated, he willcontinue to have the same influence over matters requiring stockholder approval. In addition, the holders of Class B common stock collectively will continue to be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval even if their stock holdings represent less than a majority of the outstanding shares of ourcommon stock. This concentrated control will limit the ability of holders of our Class A common stock to 59
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Table of Contents influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, and, as a result, the market price of our Class A common stock couldbe adversely affected. Future transfers by holders of Class B common stock will generally result in those shares converting to Class Acommon stock, which has the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B commonstock who retain their shares in the long term. As a result of such transfers, as of March 31, 2025, Mr. Wood controls amajority of the combined voting power of our Class A and Class B common stock even though he only owns 11.9% of the outstanding Class A and Class B common stock. As a member of our Board of Directors (our “Board”), Mr. Wood owes afiduciary duty to our stockholders and must act in good faith in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the best interests ofour stockholders. As a stockholder, even a controlling stockholder, Mr. Wood is entitled to vote his shares in his own interests,which may not always be in the interests of our stockholders generally. This concentrated control could delay, defer, or prevent a change of control, merger, consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets that our other stockholderssupport, or conversely this concentrated control could result in the consummation of such a transaction that our otherstockholders do not support. This concentrated control could also discourage a potential investor from acquiring our Class Acommon stock, which has limited voting power relative to the Class B common stock, and might harm the market price of our Class A common stock. We have not elected to take advantage of the “controlled company” exemption to the corporate governance rules forcompanies listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market. The market price of our Class A common stock has been, and may continue to be, volatile, and the value of ourClass A common stock may decline. The market price of our Class A common stock has been and may continue to be subject to wide fluctuations inresponse to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including: • actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition, operating results, and key performance metrics; • changes in projected operational and financial results; • our loss of key content partners; • changes in laws or regulations applicable to our products or platform; • the commencement or conclusion of legal proceedings that involve us; • actual or anticipated changes in our growth rate relative to our competitors; • announcements of new products or services by us or our competitors; • announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, or joint ventures; • capital-raising activities or commitments; • additions or departures of key personnel; • issuance of new or updated research or reports by securities analysts; • the use by investors or analysts of third-party data regarding our business that may not reflect our financialperformance; • fluctuations in the valuation of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us; • the perception that our environmental, social, and corporate governance performance is inadequate compared to that of our competitors; • sales of our Class A common stock, including short selling of our Class A common stock; • share price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares; • general economic and market conditions; and • other events or factors, including those resulting from civil unrest, war, foreign invasions, geopolitical tensions,terrorism, or public health crises, or responses to such events. Furthermore, the stock markets frequently experience extreme price and volume fluctuations that affect the marketprices of equity securities of many companies. These fluctuations often have been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic,political, and market conditions such as recessions, elections, interest rate changes, tariffs, or international currencyfluctuations, may negatively impact the market price of our Class A common stock. As a result of such fluctuations, you maynot realize any return on your investment in us and may lose some or all of your investment. In addition, we and other companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been, and may in the future be, subject tosecurities class action litigation or derivative litigation. Such litigation could result in substantial costs and divert ourmanagement’s attention from other business concerns. Future sales and issuances of our capital stock or rights to purchase capital stock could result in additionaldilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause our stock price to decline. We may issue additional securities in the future and from time to time. Future sales and issuances of our capital stockor rights to purchase our capital stock could result in substantial dilution to our existing stockholders. We may sell or issue Class A common stock, convertible securities, and other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices 60
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Table of Contents and in a manner as we may determine from time to time. If we sell any such securities in subsequent transactions, investorsmay be materially diluted. New investors in such subsequent transactions could gain rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of holders of our Class A common stock. Future sales of shares by existing stockholders could cause our stock price to decline. If our existing stockholders sell, or indicate an intention to sell, substantial amounts of our Class A common stock in thepublic market, the market price of our Class A common stock could decline. All of our outstanding Class A shares are eligible for sale in the public market, other than shares and stock options exercisable held by directors, executive officers, and otheraffiliates that are subject to volume limitations under Rule 144 of the Securities Act. In addition, we have reserved shares forfuture issuance under our equity incentive plan. Our directors, employees, and certain contingent workers are subject to ourquarterly trading window, which generally opens at the start of the second full trading day after the public dissemination of our annual or quarterly financial results and closes (i) with respect to the first, second, and third quarter of each year, at the end ofthe fifteenth day of the last month of such quarter and (ii) with respect to the fourth quarter of each year, at the end of thetrading day on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. These directors, employees, and contingent workers may also sellshares during a closed window period pursuant to trading plans that comply with the requirements of Rule 10b5-1(c)(1) under the Exchange Act. When these shares are issued and subsequently sold, it is dilutive to existing stockholders and the marketprice of our Class A common stock could decline. If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish unfavorable research about our business or if they downgrade our stock, our stock price and trading volume could decline. A limited number of equity research analysts provide research coverage of our Class A common stock, and we cannotassure you that such equity research analysts will adequately provide research coverage of our Class A common stock. A lackof adequate research coverage may adversely affect the liquidity and market price of our Class A common stock. If securities or industry analysts cover our company and one or more of these analysts downgrades our stock or issuesother unfavorable commentary or research, the price of our Class A common stock could decline. If one or more equityresearch analysts cease coverage of our company, or fail to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our stock coulddecrease, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline. We incur costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulationsaffecting public companies in the United States, which may harm our business. As a public company listed in the United States, we incur significant legal, accounting, and other expenses. In addition,changing laws, regulations, and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including SEC and The Nasdaq Global Select Market regulations, may increase legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities moretime-consuming. These laws, regulations, and standards are subject to varying interpretations, and their application inpractice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. We invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations, and standards, which may result in increased general and administrative expensesand a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If,notwithstanding our efforts, we fail to comply with new laws, regulations, and standards, regulatory authorities may initiatelegal proceedings against us, and our business may be harmed. Failure to comply with these rules might also make it more difficult for us to obtain certain types of insurance, includingdirector and officer liability insurance, and we might be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incursubstantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. The impact of these events could also make it more difficultfor us to attract and retain qualified directors and officers. We do not intend to pay dividends in the foreseeable future. We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our Class A or Class B common stock and do not intend to payany cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We anticipate that we will retain all of our future earnings to grow our businessand for general corporate purposes. Moreover, our Credit Agreement contains prohibitions on the payment of cash dividends on our capital stock. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their Class A common stock after price appreciation, whichmay never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments. Provisions of our charter documents and Delaware law may prevent or frustrate attempts by our stockholdersto change our management or hinder efforts to acquire a controlling interest in us, and the market price of our Class A common stock may be lower as a result. There are provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws that may make it difficult for a third party to acquire,or attempt to acquire, control of our company, even if a change in control was considered favorable by our stockholders. Our charter documents also contain other provisions that could have an anti-takeover effect, such as: • establishing a classified Board so that not all directors are elected at one time; • permitting our Board to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly created directorships; • providing that directors may only be removed for cause; 61
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Table of Contents • prohibiting cumulative voting for directors; • requiring super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws; • authorizing the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our Board could use to implement a stockholder rightsplan; • eliminating the ability of stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders; • prohibiting stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders; and • reflecting our two classes of common stock as described above. Moreover, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by Section 203 of the Delaware GeneralCorporation Law, which prohibits a person who owns 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock from merging or combining with us for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person acquired in excess of 15% of ouroutstanding voting stock, unless the merger or combination is approved in a prescribed manner. Any provision in ourcertificate of incorporation or our bylaws or Delaware law that has the effect of delaying or deterring a change in control couldlimit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our Class A common stock and could affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our Class A common stock. Our certificate of incorporation provides that the Delaware Court of Chancery and the U.S. federal districtcourts will be the exclusive forums for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, oremployees. Our certificate of incorporation provides that the Delaware Court of Chancery is the exclusive forum for the followingtypes of actions or proceedings under Delaware statutory or common law: • any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf; • any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty; • any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, our certificate ofincorporation, or our bylaws; and • any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. This provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any otherclaim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrentjurisdiction for federal and state courts over all Securities Act actions. Accordingly, both state and federal courts have jurisdiction to entertain such claims. To prevent having to litigate claims in multiple jurisdictions and the threat of inconsistent or contrary rulings by differentcourts, among other considerations, our certificate of incorporation provides that the U.S. federal district courts will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid, a stockholder maynevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive forum provisions. In such instance,we would expect to vigorously assert the validity and enforceability of the exclusive forum provisions of our certificate of incorporation. This may require significant additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions andthere can be no assurance that the provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions. These exclusive forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it findsfavorable for certain disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees. If a court were to find either exclusive forum provision in our certificate ofincorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur further significant additional costs associated withresolving such action in other jurisdictions, all of which could harm our business. Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds None. Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities None. Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures Not applicable. 62
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Table of Contents Item 5. Other Information Insider Trading Arrangements During the three months ended March 31, 2025, the following officer (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act) of the Company adopted or terminated a “Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” or “non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement,” as each term is defined in Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K. Name Action Adoption/TerminationDate Trading Arrangement Total Shares ofClass ACommonStock to beSold Expiration DateRule 10b5-1* Non-Rule10b5-1** Anthony Wood***(Chief Executive Officer, President,and Chairman) Adoption February 26, 2025 X 300,000 December 9,2025 ___________________ * Contract, instruction or written plan intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c) under the Exchange Act. ** “Non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement” as defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act. *** Trading arrangement adopted by The Wood Revocable Trust, of which Mr. Wood and his spouse are co-trustees. 63
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Table of Contents Item 6. Exhibits Incorporation by reference Exhibit Number Description Form SEC File No. Exhibit Filing Date Filed Herewith 3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Roku, Inc. 8-K 001-38211 3.1 10/3/2017 3.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of Roku, Inc. S-1/A 333-220318 3.4 9/18/2017 4.1 Reference is made to Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2 4.2 Form of Class A common stock certificate S-1/A 333-220318 4.1 9/18/2017 31.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 X 31.2 Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 X 32.1* Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 X 32.2* Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 X 101 The following information from Roku, Inc.’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025 formatted in Inline XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) includes (i) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss, (iv) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity, (v) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. X 104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) X * These exhibits are furnished with this Quarterly Report and are not deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not incorporated by reference in any filing of Roku, Inc. under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made before or after the date hereof and irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filings. 64
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Table of Contents SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Quarterly Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. Roku, Inc. Date: May 2, 2025 By: /s/ Anthony Wood Anthony Wood President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (Principal Executive Officer) Date: May 2, 2025 By: /s/ Dan Jedda Dan Jedda Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) Date: May 2, 2025 By: /s/ Matthew Banks Matthew Banks Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) 65