Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorQuibi, built for mobile-only viewing by an audience envisioned to be phone-toting millennials, now wants to get on more living-room TVs.The company, founded by ex-movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, has been in talks with both Roku and Amazon about building native apps for their connected-TV platforms, Variety has learned.
In Amazon’s case, that would be its family of Fire TV devices.Quibi’s negotiations with Amazon have “recently picked back up,” according to a source familiar with the discussions.
With Roku, talks about bringing Quibi to the platform are said to be in very early stages; a source cautioned that Roku may walk away from a deal based on the revenue-sharing agreement proposed by Quibi. (A Quibi rep.
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