Is Hulu In Play Or Just Jumping Through Hoops?
Someone wants Hulu to be in play — or at least the idea of a possible sale to be very public. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-16-11
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» Cross Platform Report: Americans Watching More TV, Mobile and Web Video (Nielsen)
» NBCUniversal getting into super… Read more »
@ Cable Show: Netflix And Hulu On Cable Set Tops?
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Cable operators already deliver Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Hulu over broadband but could the services now perceived as competitors wind up as… Read more »
Judge Approves $2.4 Million Quantcast Privacy Settlement
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So-called “Flash cookies” got some headlines in the online privacy world last year, after some prominent researchers noted that they were so… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-01-11
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» It’s Official: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Will Kick Off WWDC With iCloud And New OS Details (paidContent)
» NYT Discounts i… Read more »
After Several Months Of Talks, TiVo Adds Hulu Plus
TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) Premiere subscribers were told in September that Hulu Plus, the online streaming site’s paid service, would be added to th… Read more »
More On Legal Threats To Apple Developers: Lodsys Explains Itself
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Lodsys, the company that has made legal threats against a number of independent iOS developers around their implementation of payments servi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-13-11
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» Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal (MediaMemo)
» New App Rules Cause Ripples (WSJ)
» Alibaba CEO Lu Says… Read more »
FCC Commissioner Goes Through Revolving Door, Comes Out As Comcast Lobbyist
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A couple of years from now, if *Meredith* Attwell Baker showed up as a lobbyist at Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), it probably would elicit shrugs. B… Read more »
Iger on Hulu: Haven’t Lost Interest But Won’t Let It Get In The Way
Does the deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) mean Disney (NYSE: DIS) has lost interest in owning equity in video joint venture Hulu? An emphatic… Read more »
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Hulu Shuns PlayBook, Verizon Next?
They say progress is about making two steps forward and one step back, so maybe we should consider this a double turn for RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) a… Read more »
mSpot Tries Out One Way To Pick Up More Mobile Video Users: Cheaper Prices
The premium mobile video market is still relatively nascent and open to new entrants compared to its PC sibling, where companies like Hulu,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-05-11
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» Satellite TV system Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) is partnering with cross-platform pay-TV venture Epix, which is backed by Paramou… Read more »
Hulu Q1 By The Numbers: On Pace For $500 Million 2011
In a new blog post, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says the online video joint venture finished the first quarter of 2011 up 90 percent in revenue ove… Read more »
Lionsgate Considers More Series For ‘Streaming First’ Releases
As the idea of straight-to-streaming video has become a fairly common idea among Hollywood studios — at least as an “experiment” — Lionsga… Read more »
Report: Iger, Carey May Exit Hulu Board
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Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). COO Chase Carey may step down from the board of directors at Hulu, accor… Read more »
Why Netflix Won’t Do A Tiered Deal With Starz
There’s plenty of time before Starz’s controversial streaming deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs out, but that hasn’t stopped analysts from… Read more »
@ pC2011: Zalaznick: Don’t Blame Hulu For Lack Of Cable Programming Streams
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The lack of cable programming that’s available for online streaming on Hulu isn’t the video JV’s fault, said Lauren Zalaznick, Chairman, NBC… Read more »
Updated: Chart: How Amazon Prime Video Stacks Up To Netflix & Hulu Plus
What are some of the programming differences between Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime Videos, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Hulu Plus? Amazon has some p… Read more »
Video: MobiTV CEO Says Tablets Are The “Gamechanger” For Mobile TV Services
At Mobile World Congress last week I had a chance to catch up with Charlie Nooney, the CEO of MobiTV, to talk about some of the fails we’ve… Read more »
What Bob Iger Values Most In TV’s Digital Future
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If there was any doubt as to how Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger sees the changing TV world, it became abundantly clear in the closing hours… Read more »
Industry Moves: Bravo; Mediabrands Ventures; Hulu; INscribe Digital
– Bravo: Lisa Hsia has been promoted to the new post of EVP of Bravo Digital Media. She previously was SVP of the division since Nov. 2005.… Read more »
Premium VOD Is Doomed If This Piracy Study Is Correct
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A new PricewaterhouseCoopers study casts serious doubt on consumer willingness to pay for movies on digital platforms. Warning: Film-industy… Read more »
Netflix Surges In Nielsen’s First Video Data In 7 Months
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Welcome back, Nielsen, which publicly issued late Friday its first set of online video metrics since June 2010 due to computer glitches that… Read more »
Kantar Video Study Underscores Super Bowl’s Two-Point Conversion
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A study released Friday by WPP research arm Kantar Video underscores just how impactful the internet can be for Super Bowl ads. It only goes… Read more »
Fox Follows ABC Into iPad Sync Space With ‘Bones’ App
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Make sure to keep your iPad on when watching TV because there may be a trend developing in primetime programs that have companion content sy… Read more »
Super Bowl XLV: The Daily’s Gamble
With a value of $3 million and a reach that can’t be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing w… Read more »
Tremor Media Moves Into Mobile With Transpera Buy
Online video advertising network Tremor Media is upping its game in mobile: it is buying the mobile video ad platform Transpera for an undis… Read more »
Hulu By The Numbers: Hulu Plus Projections & More
How is Hulu Plus doing? According to CEO Jason Kilar, the new subscription service is on track to pass one million subscribers and is set fo… Read more »
Viacom Ad Gains Canceled Out By Lower Home Video Sales
Viacom’s cable properties benefitted from the advertising recovery of the past year, but lower DVD sales erased any of its gains in the last… Read more »
Viacom Returns Stewart, Colbert To Hulu … Along With ‘Jersey Shore’
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Viacom (NYSE: VIA) is bringing back to Hulu the Comedy Central hits The Daily Show and The Colbert Report nearly a year after they were pull… Read more »
First Look: Comcast Xfinity Flips The Switch On iPad Streaming
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) cable subs with iPads or iPhones and the Xfinity TV app are now part of the (some) TV Everywhere club. The TV show and… Read more »
‘Modern Family’ Overexposed Online? ABC Exec Disagrees
When Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent suggested earlier this month that the syndication-market value of the ABC (NYSE: DIS) comedy Modern F… Read more »
Was Jeff Zucker Really So Bad For NBC Universal?
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Today is Jeff Zucker’s last day as CEO of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), where he spent nearly a quarter of a century. Not since Gerald Levin des… Read more »
Why Jason Kilar Will Leave Hulu
The portrait of Hulu that emerged from today’s Wall Street Journal is that of a hopelessly dysfunctional venture at odds with itself over it… Read more »
@ NATPE: Jeff Zucker Defends Hulu, Netflix Deals
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The Jeff Zucker Farewell Tour made another stop Monday morning in his hometown of Miami, host city to the National Association of Television… Read more »
More Ads On Roku Could Lure More Channels, But What About Viewers?
Roku is maturing fast this week: First came news of its first cable-channel partner, WealthTV, and now a deal with mDialog that will allow f… Read more »
Comcast’s Biggest Regulatory Win? What The FCC And DOJ Didn’t Do
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Sure, there are plenty of conditions attached to the regulatory approval of Comcast’s buying 51 percent of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), includi… Read more »
Updated: DOJ’s Approval Of Comcast-NBCU Contingent On Giving Up Role In Hulu
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Maybe it’s just as well that Jeff Zucker is leaving NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) when Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) takes over. Zucker and former News C… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-18-11
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» Troubled video renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is asking lenders for more cash. [WSJ]
» Facebook took in $1.86 billi… Read more »
