Last Revised: January 2, 2022 22:45
Why
Discussion between Adam and Dave in Podcasting 2.0 Board Meeting #68 on how cool it might be to see dedicated applications on Roku app, for example, in front of a services dedicated to music, or movies, or documentaries, etc. with unique and familiar experiences/interfaces to those types of media, taking full advantage of the Podcasting 2.0 namespace and index.
Then I got to thinking, what excatly is involved in developing a Roku app, and what is that ecosystem like?
And most importantly, how might Value-4-Value 'play' in such an environment?
Roku Application Distribution, aka the T&Cs
Roku Developer Program Enrollment (either as an Individual or a Company) requires the applicant to tick the "I have read and agree to Roku's Application Distribution Agreement, dated November 23, 2021." {A}
which links to the following documents, which also link to other documents, according to the indentation, below:
- Developer Tools License Agreement - dated August 5, 2021 {B}, which links to
- Roku Data Guidelines - undated {C},
- Roku Data Processing Terms (EU) {G}.
- Developer Terms and Agreements, which links to eight other documents
- Certification Requirements {E},
- Claimed Copyright Infringement Procedures {F},
- Roku's Address for Notices,
- Roku Advertising Guidelines,
- Roku Data Guidelines {C},
- Roku Trademark Guidelines {D},
- Roku Distribution Agreement {A}, and
- Developer Tools License Agreement {B}.
- Roku Trademark Guidelines - undated {D}
- Certification Criteria - undated {E} for Roku Channel applications,
- Developer Policies specific to "Discovery" resources that shall be made available to the Roku platform to drive
- Roku Search,
- Direct to Play, and
- Instant Signup funcationality.
- See Also (requiredDeep Linking)
- Roku Privacy Policy - dated September 23, 2021 - Roku uses Google Analytics, but shares a link to the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. - also notes the
- Copyright & Content Takedown Process (dmca) - undated {F} which may be triggered by someone filing a
- Notice of Alleged Copyright Infringement or a
- Notice of Infringing or Prohibited Content, then a
- Counter-Notice Regarding Alleged Copyright Infringement may be used to respond.
- Analytics and Reporting
- Beta Channel Program guidelines - limited to 120 days and a max of 20 users.
- "TRC Delivery Specs" under Exhibit B, TRC Distribution. See The Roku Channel (TRC) Delivery Specs
Key points for Value-4-Value
are likely related to:
and how Roku Inc. would view a Channel developer receiving payment/exchanging value through a mechanism other than Roku Pay.
Or, this could all be moot and I'm reading too much in to this. e.g. The Apple TV app on Roku - you download it for free and you sign in to that app using your Apple ID. No cash flows through Roku.
Am I over-thinking this?
-- Mike