How to have our channel appear on Roku as a Regular Channel?

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Hopefully some kind soul will save us a little reading and research time… :slightly_smiling_face:

Once one develops and gets a new Roku channel approved…

As I understand it…

1 - It is then available as a private channel…
so a viewer must know of the channel already
and then find the code to add it as a private channel… right?

2 - Or is the new channel available in the Roku Store so that a potential viewer can…
… browse the Roku Store
… discover the channel
… then add it to their channels?

3 - Or can you design from the beginning to be listed in the Roku Store?

4 - And the big question is this… Is there a way to be listed by default in the standard Roku Channels… like NetFlix, etc…
So the potential viewer doesn’t have to “dig” to find the channel?

Thanks for any help.

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Most of those questions are answered by the documentation in the SDK. Take a look at the ChannelPackagingAndPublishing.pdf.
There is no difference between a private and public channel aside from visibility to the end user and the approval process for publishing.

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a. - Is a Public Channel ‘viewable’ as one of the out-of-the-box ‘default’ channels…

b. - Or must the potential viewer go to the Roku Store and find the channel… then ‘activate’ it ?

Thanks for the help.

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“Fran_3” wrote:
a. - Is a Public Channel ‘viewable’ as one of the out-of-the-box ‘default’ channels…

b. - Or must the potential viewer go to the Roku Store and find the channel… then ‘activate’ it ?

Thanks for the help.
Most likely the latter. You may want to contact partners@roku.com to discuss options for that.