Derrick
ლ(ಠ_ಠ )ლ
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2010
- Messages
- 5,085
- Reaction score
- 5
NBC Universal and News Corp. have joined forced and launched Hulu, with added content from Sony Pictures Television and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, seen by many as a threat to Youtube.
The new Hulu website has progressed to private Beta stage, and the Hulu website blog states that “We’ve been hard at work on a service that offers a great selection of television shows, clips, feature films and more that you can enjoy for free and on-demand.”
Hulu says that they are sending out invitations which will allow users to access the private beta at Hulu.com. “If you haven’t signed up, you can do so by visiting Hulu.com. As well, this week we’ll start serving Hulu’s content lineup to our distribution partner websites, which include AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo.”
The website promises hit shows like The Office, Prison Break, The Simpsons and Heroes while also offering visitors a large number of classic television series like Arrested Development, Miami Vice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The A-Team.
“We’re also going into beta with an initial selection of feature films that includes Conan the Barbarian, Sideways and The Blues Brothers,” said Hulu.
Online video growing
More consumers are ditching television for online content, and Youtube’s tremendous success may have woken up traditional television players like NBC Universal and News Corp.
An increasing amount of advertising revenue is flowing into the online space, and with Internet advertising revenue already outstripping outdoor, cinema and radio in the UK it will not be too long when it seriously rivals television.
So far YouTube, was created in mid February 2005 by three Paypal workers, has dominated the online Video-on-Demand space. The website was bought for a whopping US$1.65 billion in Google stock in November 2006.
This acquisition was followed by constant legal wrangling about copyright issues, notably between the website and high-profile players like Viacom and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Youtube does however seem to try to play clean, and from October 2007 it enabled media companies to block their copyrighted video content that was loaded onto YouTube without seeking any prior permission.
It was only a matter of time before the bigger media players started a similar venture to leverage their copyrighted content, and this may indeed be a significant threat to YouTube.
The new Hulu website has progressed to private Beta stage, and the Hulu website blog states that “We’ve been hard at work on a service that offers a great selection of television shows, clips, feature films and more that you can enjoy for free and on-demand.”
Hulu says that they are sending out invitations which will allow users to access the private beta at Hulu.com. “If you haven’t signed up, you can do so by visiting Hulu.com. As well, this week we’ll start serving Hulu’s content lineup to our distribution partner websites, which include AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo.”
The website promises hit shows like The Office, Prison Break, The Simpsons and Heroes while also offering visitors a large number of classic television series like Arrested Development, Miami Vice, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The A-Team.
“We’re also going into beta with an initial selection of feature films that includes Conan the Barbarian, Sideways and The Blues Brothers,” said Hulu.
Online video growing
More consumers are ditching television for online content, and Youtube’s tremendous success may have woken up traditional television players like NBC Universal and News Corp.
An increasing amount of advertising revenue is flowing into the online space, and with Internet advertising revenue already outstripping outdoor, cinema and radio in the UK it will not be too long when it seriously rivals television.
So far YouTube, was created in mid February 2005 by three Paypal workers, has dominated the online Video-on-Demand space. The website was bought for a whopping US$1.65 billion in Google stock in November 2006.
This acquisition was followed by constant legal wrangling about copyright issues, notably between the website and high-profile players like Viacom and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Youtube does however seem to try to play clean, and from October 2007 it enabled media companies to block their copyrighted video content that was loaded onto YouTube without seeking any prior permission.
It was only a matter of time before the bigger media players started a similar venture to leverage their copyrighted content, and this may indeed be a significant threat to YouTube.