There was a post on TechDirt that got me thinking:
“While Hulu surprised many critics with a well-designed site, it appears that Hulu hasn’t been able to generate the type of traffic executives expected. So, despite it being a YouTube competitor, Hulu has tucked its tail between its legs and set up its own channel on [...]
There is an interview with Hulu CEO Jason Kilar over on PaidContent. They cover a bunch of interesting topics. This comment stood out:
“This is about distribution. A lot of people assume that the whole thing is the destination of hulu.com. Yes, that’s an important paet of our business and yes, I do believe that will [...]
I could probably fill this blog just with negative links about Hulu but mostly they rehash the same issues like lack of portability. However, the folks at Silicon Valley Insider have done some number crunching and figure that, at best, NBCU’s annual cut would be somewhere around $125,000 - that’s before expenses.
Check out this post [...]
The NBC-sponsored web portal Hulu is going public sometime this week after a pretty long beta period. Fortune magazine has a good overview of the relevant details:
“Whether or not that’s true, the world will soon judge for itself. After one year and an estimated $15 million worth of development costs, Hulu, a video website supported [...]
PaidContent has learned that the big media forces behind the TV show streaming website Hulu is exploring creating a similar portal for music, pairing up with MySpace:
“The constant in both instances is content for equity. Under this scheme, MySpace would be the operator with the major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group [...]
A post over at NewTeeVee discusses MTV likely embracing of the NBC-sponsored (I believe) web-video portal Hulu and their dislike of YouTube. Not much to the whole piece, except for this total gem:
““YouTube without us — what is there?” added Courtney Holt, executive vice president of digital music and media for MTV Networks’ Music & [...]
