

Roku requested exceptions to YouTube’s technical requirements, which “would break the YouTube experience and limit our ability to update YouTube in order to fix issues or add new features.”.Initial conversations between Google and Roku were “simply to renew” the previous terms that have been in place “for several years.” Google says that Roku chose to use that as “an opportunity to renegotiate a separate deal encompassing the YouTube main app,” which wouldn’t have expired until December 2021.

