If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, you’ve no doubt come across the site’s $79 per year “Prime” membership option.
The basic idea is that for $79, you get free two-day shipping on just about everything sold directly by Amazon—not its third-party sellers, mind you—or $4-per-item overnight shipping.
The company has now …
In a major play to unseat the powerhouse Netflix from the legal streaming movie market, Hulu has gained the rights to stream the Criterion Collection films.
Criterion Collection announced on Tuesday that they will cease to be a partner with Netflix’s instant streaming feature, instead starting a partnership with their competitor Hulu …
Its future may be uncertain, but when it comes to watching television online, users still prefer Hulu, it seems. According to ComScore’s new Digital Year in Review report, Hulu’s audience watched 19.4 million minutes of video, more than twice as much as the combined total of video streamed from the websites of ABC, CBS, the CW, Fox and …
Where’s TV headed? Ask Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. His company has insight from “daily interactions with users, advertisers, and content owners,” as he mentions in a recent company blog post.
What Do We Want?
In a nutshell, consumers want fewer ads, the convenience of on-demand programming available from any device, and we’ve …
Just because Hulu may be a leader in the field of Internet TV doesn’t mean that it’s resting on its laurels – or that it won’t be torn apart by internal disagreements. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hulu is undergoing a number of behind-the-scenes arguments that could result in massive changes in direction for the company in …
As we close the door on 2010, you might find yourself wondering, “What was that year all about?” Well, finally you can find out, thanks to Hitwise listing the most searched-for terms on the internet over the last fifty-two weeks. For example, Facebook owned the year. Not only was “facebook” the most searched-for term of the year (with …
To paraphrase Sufjan Stevens, it’s almost Christmas! Don’t feel sad! But it has to be said: Netflix Instant is really lacking when it comes to seasonal fare to enjoy over the next couple of days when the Yule Log gets a little too repetitive. Sure, they’ve got clips of the movies you’d really want to be watching and everyone’s favorite …
Whither the financial future of Hulu? With the idea of issuing an IPO being said to be off the table at least for now, the video-on-demand company co-owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co. is having to consider other ways of raising the money it needs to expand. The problem with going public, apparently, was that Hulu …
What’s the point of Hulu? That’s the question being asked by some in the wake of the news that Disney – one of the three co-owners in the online VoD service – has licensed hit shows like Lost, Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy to competitor Netflix Instant (which itself came two months after NBC Universal, another Hulu parent, licensed 35 …
Hulu isn’t just looking to branch out into new territories, it’s also looking to branch out into new endeavors – Like producing original content. The online video on demand company co-owned by ABC, NBC Universal and Fox parent News Corp. is developing a site-exclusive web series, a roundup of pop-cultural news and events of the last 24
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America is no longer big enough for Hulu. Having successfully launched Hulu Plus, the paid-subscription model for the streaming video-on-demand service, the company – co-owned by NBC Universal, Fox parent company News Corp. and The Walt Disney Co. – wants to expand internationally.
Talking to the Wall Street Journal, chief executive …
Is the internet finally following through on its threat to kill television? New reports are showing that viewers are dropping their cable subscriptions and, more interestingly, not replacing them with another cable or phone subscription. Numbers for the third quarter of 2010 show that Time Warner Cable lost 155,000 subscribers, more than …
