Excerpt: Gibbs Haljun, managing director of media investment for Mindshare North America, said that the agency expects to buy more media from Roku next year — the platform itself continues to be a growing priority when it comes to over-the-top advertising. That said, while the Roku channel is part of the inventory that’s available to advertisers from Roku, it’s not as big of a priority as the overall Roku platform. This is largely driven by the fact that the Roku channel primarily offers licensed, non-exclusive programming, Haljun said.
“There’s value [on Roku], and the evolution of Roku is going to be interesting,” said Haljun. “But I believe more people use Roku as a device rather than as an entertainment channel.”
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