By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 12:30:00
Google TV growth appears to be slowing down, with a new update on the number of active devices only growing by about 11% over the past year and a half.
Following the launch of Google TV, the growth of Android on TVs has been massive. In 2023, there were 150 million active devices and, around a year and a half later, that number jumped up to 270 million.
At Google I/O 2026, we’re getting our next update on that figure – 300 million active Google TV and Android TV devices globally.
It’s much slower growth of just over 11%, just 30 million added devices. But that’s not a massive surprise when you look at the bigger picture. Google TV hit the scene in a changing TV landscape, where smart TVs were exploding and many brands were dropping their in-house platforms for Google’s offering, namely Hisense and TCL, which are two of the biggest TV brands on the planet.
Recent reports have pinned Google TV as…
