One of the biggest fights over streaming, may finally be solved
Roku and Google have buried the hatchet, announcing a multiyear extension for both YouTube and YouTube TV apps on the Roku streaming platform.
The companies reached the agreement just days before their previous deal covering YouTube on Roku was set to expire on December 9.
If they hadn’t reached an agreement by the expiry – Google planned to pull the YouTube app from the streaming service — a loss for basically everyone involved, but especially Roku users who would have no longer been able to download a key video service.
In April of this year Roku’s deal to distribute YouTube TV expired and Roku removed the app from its channel store at the time.
A YouTube spokesperson confirmed, “We’re happy to share that we’ve reached a deal with Roku to continue distributing the YouTube and YouTube TV apps on Roku devices.
And although Terms of the deal extension weren’t disclose Roku has previously said it does not earn any kind of revenue from the YouTube app.
Roku had taken its fight with Google public, complaining that the internet giant’s distribution terms for YouTube were anticompetitive.
