With Roku’s staggering popularity, growth and OTT market-share dominance, it’s no surprise that businesses and content owners of all sizes are rushing to build Roku channels of there own.
While it seems that everyone I know is watching Movie & TV channels like Netflix, Amazon, Baby Boomer TV, Hulu and others, one might think that the Movie & TV category has the most channels, when in fact it is the second most popular category for Roku channel developers.
The most popular category is Religious with 1,319 channels (22.6% of all Roku channels) with Movies & TV coming in second with 883 channels (15.1% of all Roku channels).
So, what category fits your business? Here is a list of the Roku channel categories with their respective number of channels per category (as of August 8, 2017).
Category – # of Channels
Movies & TV – 883
TV Everywhere – 51
Music – 338
Games – 136
Apps – 62
Comedy – 136
Educational – 148
Fitness – 80
Food – 151
International – 152
Kids & Family – 366
Lifestyle – 280
News & Weather – 359
Personal Media – 45
Photo Apps – 18
Religious – 1319
Sci & Tech – 71
Screensavers – 182
Shopping – 40
Special Interest – 376
Sports – 287
Themes – 32
Travel – 228
Web Video – 105
