When Microsoft announced that ESPN would make live and on-demand video available through its Xbox Live service, the news had strong implications for mass adoption of cable services being delivered ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Secrets gathered on location during the shooting of the highly anticipated dance project include how exactly Miley Cyrus inspired Jon M. Chu to create the series, a potential theatrical release and what the difference is between starring in Glee and starring in a web series. Read more »
The TV-on-the-web service, Hulu, is now offering a free iPhone & iPad app for Hulu Plus, its recently launched subscription service (currently in private beta). Though the service itself is in private beta, the iPhone/iPad app is available right now for download. Read more »
While Netflix might have a head start when it comes to cross-platform development and building a subscriber base, comparing the shows that will be available on Hulu Plus upon launch shows that the new subscription service has a huge advantage. Read more »
Hulu has officially announced its long-awaited premium subscription service, giving users access to more shows and a wider range of content that they’ll be able to watch on multiple consumer electronics devices, such as the iPhone, iPad and Samsung Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players. Read more »
The former Family Matters star’s take on Hollywood’s less glamorous side has solid production value and a great central performance from White. However, while there’s a wry tone that sometimes works in a laughing-on-the-inside way, many of the jokes and plotlines fall flat. Read more »
Hulu’s paid subscription service has been in the works for months, and the site is reportedly ready to roll it out to a limited number of users next week. Part of the $9.95 offering could be an iPad app as well as support for game consoles. Read more »
Family Matters alumni Jaleel White’s series Fake It Til You Make It premiered today on Hulu, and in this video from the set, director Todd Pellegrino talks about condom jokes while White models vast quantities of Ed Hardy-esque bling. Read more »
More people may be watching online video than ever, but Comcast doesn’t see Google TV as a competitive threat, according to COO Steve Burke. Instead, the exec said today that Comcast’s real competition comes from satellite TV providers and telco companies entering the pay TV market. Read more »
Today on the Net: comScore’s April numbers show YouTube dominating, Hulu flat and Vevo taking a big leap; NBC chief Jeff Zucker will get a $30-$40 million exit deal after the Comcast deal closes and Steve Jobs says Google and Adobe are picking fights with Apple. Read more »
Hulu’s long-awaited subscription service might be rolled out as a video service on Xbox Live, which, if true, would be the first time Hulu actually agreed to allow its TV and film content to be made available on the television, rather than just through PCs. Read more »
Based on a consumer survey, ABC may be looking to roll out a premium online subscription service that would give users access to more content than is currently available on ABC.com and Hulu. But who wins and who loses if it were to do so? Read more »
The Boxee competitor web video browser is experiencing the same ups and downs as Boxee did when it comes to Hulu. Its latest workaround for giving users access to the streaming media site, introduced three days ago, is no longer in operation. Read more »
Kylo, the web video browser software from Hillcrest Labs, was blocked from accessing Hulu just hours after it launched back in March. Now the software been updated with a new workaround that will allow users to watch Hulu videos. But how long will the hack work? Read more »
Hulu content won’t play on Google TV devices – or will it? A new hack that makes it possible to view Hulu videos on Android phones with Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1 raises more questions about the viability of content restrictions for the Google TV platform. Read more »
For years, companies that wanted to launch pay TV services had to invest heavily to do so. But now the acceptance of IP video services could provide a way to reach a large and growing audience without a huge upfront ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Today on the ‘Net: YouTube’s Hunter walk believes online video is dead, Viacom’s Philippe Dauman discusses alternative subscription models and Hulu is going to make users wait a little bit longer before rolling out its much-anticipated subscription service. Read more »
TV apps — interactive, web-like applications meant to “enhance” the TV viewing experience by supplementing programming content with additional material and activities — are evolving quickly from a novelty feature on some Internet-enabled HDTVs and a few cable systems to a standard capability. Their rise is driven by rapid growth in the number of Internet-connected devices in consumers’ living rooms, growing consumer familiarity with mobile apps and strategic competitive forces that influence video service providers. In this report, we look at the market dynamics, key players, and provide forecasts for the market, including network-connected televisions, embedded app marketplaces, app downloads, paid TV apps, and revenue from the sale of paid apps to consumers, which will grow from $10 million in 2010 to $1.9 billion by 2015. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
While users can forget about watching Hulu on the iPad — at least for now — on the PC they now have a bigger, sleeker video player that can adapt to changes in network conditions, as well as personalized video recommendations and more relevant ads. Read more »
Hulu made a bunch of updates to its video player today, making it bigger, adding adaptive bitrate streaming, improving content recommendations and enabling users to receive more personalized ads. But there’s one thing that Hulu won’t be adding any time soon: support for HTML5. Read more »
Betty White’s hosting of Saturday Night Live last Saturday performed great for Hulu — despite only being online for 24 hours of the week. Five videos from last Saturday’s show were among the Top 20 videos watched, and the full episode was the most-watched show. Read more »
Online television guide The Futon Critic, launched in January 1997, is one of the web’s most reliable resources for information on broadcast and cable programming. But their coverage of the TV industry is about to take on a new digital edge. Beginning this summer, The Futon […] Read more »
Okay, we admit it: We’re a little sad today that GigaOM didn’t win a Webby, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from checking out the long list of web video sites and ventures that did. In fact, web video was one of the big winners of this […] Read more »
Hulu is abandoning its plans for a launch in the UK — that’s the latest from the Telegraph on the U.S.-based online video site’s efforts to expand overseas. Despite spending more than a year in negotiations with UK broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Five to launch […] Read more »
Why Hulu Will—And Should—Charge For Hulu Plus; When Hulu finally announces its subscription plans, it will have a small but critical window of opportunity to explain itself to the market. If it gets the details of the plan right, it will succeed. (paidContent) Vudu Starts Offering […] Read more »
So looking at reactions to this morning’s story about whether consumers might pay Hulu $10 for a subscription plan, the range of reaction from you, humble readers, has been largely negative. On Twitter, when queried as to whether they would pay $10 a month for Hulu, […] Read more »
Hulu is one step closer to rolling out a premium subscription plan, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. It may charge users $9.95 a month for access to a larger library of video content. Question is, will you pay for it? Read more »
New numbers released by comScore today show record engagement for Hulu in February, with an average of 2.4 hours of video watched by every viewer who tuned into the site’s programming. Hulu’s numbers were still slightly down from December, when it clocked one billion views, but […] Read more »
After two years of silence about its business, Hulu has finally issued some details about its financials, including some major revenue numbers and — surprise — profitability. For those who missed it, Hulu told the world last night that it generated more than $100 million in […] Read more »
We may finally have an answer to the gajillion dollar question (rounding up for inflation) that’s revolved around Hulu since the first rumors began last year: The ad-supported online video site may test plans for a subscription service with an in-development iPad application, as stated in […] Read more »
Hulu Goes to the Movies (That You’ve Never Heard Of); Yesterday marked the first time a “feature film” appeared on Hulu before running anywhere else, but only because In The Darkness is hardly a feature film. (MediaMemo) Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content; a U.S. judge […] Read more »
Hulu Sends Some Traffic To Level 3 and Limelight Networks; video content from Hulu historically came exclusively from Akamai, but lately, the site is also using Level 3 and Limelight Networks for some of its video delivery. (Streaming Media blog) Related: Hulu’s a Towering Success — […] Read more »
The worldwide online market for digital goods will grow amid a state of continuous disruption across all forms of content markets. Fueled by an ever-growing user base, migration from physical formats to digital distribution, and a proliferation of new connected devices, the overall market for digital goods will grow to $36 billion by 2014, up from $16.7 billion in 2009. This report examines the state of paid content and the various monetization and payment models across each of the various digital goods markets. The report examines key players and market dynamics in the film and video, newspaper, online game, music and social networks space relative to their paid content strategies, and includes a revenue forecast of each of these segments relative to the overall paid content market. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
CW to Double Ad Load in Its Web Shows; the CW Network plans to put as many ads in Web versions of its shows as it airs on TV. (The Wall Street Journal) Bitbop: Is This the Hulu of Mobile?; Fox Mobile unveiled Bitbop this week […] Read more »
A Canadian company called Hulavision has sued Hulu and founding partner NBC Universal, claiming that the broadcaster stole trade secrets and plans for a premium video site, even pilfering the company’s name, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Hulavision claims that founder Eroll Hula […] Read more »
UPDATED Well that was fast. If you’ve tried using the Kylo web video browser, which was just launched this morning, you might have noticed something funny while trying to connect to videos from Hulu — that is, that they’re unavailable. Users can connect to the Hulu […] Read more »
The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed; Viacom releases YouTube’s finances from before the Google acquisition. (MediaMemo) Hulu’s Ad Sales Team Is Undercutting Its Parent Companies; Hulu’s sales team is “actively subverting” the ad sales of its parent companies, which are also […] Read more »
