When soap operas “One Life to Live” and “All My Children” moved online, it wasn’t clear how fans would watch them. It turns out that most viewers are binge-watching — so the soaps’ production company is cutting back on the number of new episodes each week. Read more »
More than four million people now pay to access Hulu Plus streams, and all of that streaming shows: The site registered more than one billion streams across its free and paid service in Q1. Read more »
Hulu’s Apple TV app has been given a major facelift to better highlight new content. The relaunch could set off a revamp of the service across various CE devices. Read more »
Amazon announced Friday that by the end of 2013, Prime Instant Video will be the only paid streaming service to offer episodes of Downton Abbey. Hulu Plus and Netflix will lose access. Read more »
Hulu Plus subscribers will get access to a number of CBS shows starting January 2013 — but don’t expect this to include last night’s CSI:Miami episode: The deal only includes episodes from previous seasons, and most of that will also just be made available to paying subscribers. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Hulu Plus, Hulu’s paid subscription service, has hit 2 million users and is helping put the company’s revenue on a faster pace than last year, said Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar, speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference in New York. Read more at GigaOM »
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium v… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we cov… Read more »
When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced the new Nook Tablet on Monday, it appeared to have an app-vantage over the Kindle Fire: Hulu Plus.… Read more »
Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1… Read more »
The latest news from Hulu underscores how important it is for the video startup to keep moving while it waits for its fate to be decided, sh… Read more »
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Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD… Read more »
Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD and streaming subscriptions and raising the price… Read more »
For CEO Reed Hastings and his team, consumer behavior provided the sign that it was time for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to shift from a hybrid str… Read more »
It’s always nice to have a new sales point or two when your company is on the block. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is out today with some of the exam… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Foursquare: The check-in app has signed a deal with American Express to offer special… Read more »
–T-Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator in the U.S., will not be left behind in the CES 4G cavalcade. It may still be holding off fro… Read more »
Less than five months after a limited beta launch, Hulu’s premium subscription package Hulu Plus is no longer invite only. The joint venture… Read more »
Hulu Plus is gaining two more ways to connect with potential subscribers: TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) and Roku are adding access to Hulu Plus through… Read more »
Hulu has had recent discussions with CBS (NYSE: CBS) about bringing CBS content to the new Hulu Plus subscription service, and CBS CEO Les M… Read more »
No, we don’t have subscription numbers but we do have a little more insight into the differences between Hulu Plus and basic Hulu. Research… Read more »
As I was finishing up my review of Hulu Plus, Om Malik raised the idea that Hulu might be considering one of the options I planned to sugges… Read more »
Is Hulu Plus worth $10 a month? It all depends on the programming you like to watch, how much of it you want to access and how often. I’ve b… Read more »
