The company has struck deals with TV manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, VIZIO, LG, and Toshiba, to include the service on their TVs at sale. Yahoo says that up to 70% of the TVs sold with Yahoo Connected TV are connected to the Internet and up to 60% of TVs sold with Yahoo Connected TV become monthly users.
Now developers can create paid TV widgets through the widget development kit. Paid Widget pricing will be a one-time purchase between $0.99 to $99.00. Yahoo will handle payment processing for the Paid TV Widgets and deliver payments to Paid TV Widget developers, based on a revenue share of 70% of the purchase price. The Paid TV Widget developer program is initially open to developers and publishers in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, France, Canada and Australia.
It’s unclear how much of a future Yahoo Connected TV has now that Google has introduced a similar service with Google TV. Yahoo partner Samsung TV is planning to integrate Google TV into its televisions.
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Authors: Leena Rao