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The Roku Channel is now obtainable on Google TV and different Android TV OS gadgets, the corporate mentioned Wednesday.
Beforehand, the Roku Channel, the streaming gadget and platform’s free leisure channel, had solely been obtainable on Roku gadgets, Hearth TV, Samsung TVs, the Roku cell app and on-line. That is the newest growth for the channel, which has been including to its programming lineup and branching out into originals, together with WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, Die Hart and Die Hart 2: Die Harter, each starring Kevin Hart, and The Nice American Baking Present.
Roku has additionally been including unique reside sports activities programming, with a lately unveiled partnership that may see 11 Formulation E motorsport races featured on the Roku Channel per season.
In whole, the Roku Channel options greater than 80,000 free motion pictures and applications and greater than 350 reside linear tv channels. In Might, the channel broke into Nielsen’s month-to-month platform rankings for the primary time, representing 1.1 % of all TV use for the month, following the trajectory of fellow FAST collection Pluto TV and Tubi.
The free channel has turn into an even bigger a part of Roku’s total technique after the corporate employed former Fox exec Charlie Collier to steer its content material and promoting enterprise this previous fall. Collier has since promoted David Eilenberg, who was head of originals, to supervise content material throughout the media division.
Nonetheless, Roku has been challenged by a tricky promoting market and rising losses, which it managed to see down in its most up-to-date quarter. Roku has set out a plan to tighten bills transferring ahead, which so far has included chopping about 400 positions.
The corporate has mentioned content material spending is predicated on the size and progress of the Roku Channel, and had been adjusted as a result of macroeconomic circumstances. The vast majority of its content material spending is on licensed content material, however Collier has highlighted originals on the Roku Channel as a way to herald extra viewers and main advertisers.
Roku has additionally been branching out within the gadget enterprise, after launching its personal Roku-branded TVs at Finest Purchase.