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APRIL 17, 2012

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu reports this morning that it has now surpassed 2 million paid subscribers to its Hulu Plus service, as of Q1 this year. Hulu said there will be no charge for the change, where advertisers will not be charged unless their advertisements have been streamed through completion.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Tuesday that it is planning a big push of its Hulu Plus subscription service, with a Super Bowl XLVI advertising campaign. Hulu did not say how much it is spending on the advertisement, which is due to air during the Super Bowl XLVI this weekend. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu , the online video streaming site headed by Jason Kilar, released some detailed subscriber numbers Wednesday, as the firm continued to be. According to the firm, it is approaching 1 million paying subscribers to its Hulu Plus service, expecting that it will cross the 1M number before the end of the summer.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has been featuring the ads on the Hulu AdZone and ranking them based on popularity again this year, currently showing Budweiser''s "Lost Dog" followup as the most liked spot. Unlike prior years, Hulu is ranking the ads through Facebook Likes, rather than its own voting system.

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MARCH 24, 2015

In a strange intersection of corporate advertising and filmmaking, Dell and Intel said they have released a new film on Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu , produced by an Oscar winner and including a number of well known actors. Simmons ("Whiplash") and Catherine O''Hara ("Best In Show"). READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Monday that it has rolled out a new feature which will let users pick their own commercials mid-stream, flipping any commercial to another advertising choice on its site.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu said this week that it is again featuring advertisements from the Super Bowl, and will be posting the commercials from Super Bowl XLV immediately after they are aired.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said Thursday afternoon that the company brought in approximately $420M in revenues in 2011, up 60 percent from 2010, and now has more than 1.5 million paying subscribers to Hulu Plus. Kilar disclosed the numbers in a blog post summarizing the firm's 2011.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based streaming video site Hulu has been in New York this week pitching its service to advertisers at its Hulu Upfronts event, revealing today four new original series, plus some statistics on the service. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is set to earn half a billion dollars in revenue this year, according to an update from CEO Jason Kilar posted last night on its company blog. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu announced today that the most liked ads from yesterday's Super Bowl XLVI so far are Honda's "Matthew's Day Off" and Volkswagen's "The Bark Side" and "The Dog Strikes Back" advertisement--at least, according to Facebook "Likes" on the site.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It looks like the serious commercials won the popularity contest during the Super Bowl, at least according to voting on Hulu , on its Super Bowl XLVII commercial site. The top ads, according to Hulu, were: 1. Ram Trucks: Farmer. Budweiser: Brotherhood.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu reports this afternoon that the firm has received more than one million votes in its Super Bowl commercial rankings on its Hulu Adzone , where the firm has posted all of the ads from Sunday's Super Bowl. Tags: hulu super bowl commercial advertising video content. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu has just rolled out a number of major upgrades to the service and its video player, the firm announced this morning. Hulu also said it is continuing to use Flash on its player, and will "continue to monitor developments on HTML5," saying the new standard "doesn't yet meet all of our customers' needs."

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Los Angeles-based MySpace said Wednesday that the firm has launched a new application which links user profiles on the social networking site to the Hulu video site. According to MySpace, the new MySpace Primetime Application allows users to embed videos from Hulu and MySpaceTV on their profiles and home pages.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In comparison, Google's sites reach 146.2M In the same report, comScore also reported the top 10 video ad properties, based on video ads viewed, saying that Hulu now leads in the number of video ads viewed and video ad impressions, serving up 789.8M According to the latest numbers, Fox Interactive Media had 43.1M

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Fandango said that the SuperBowl advertisment will feature a tag which links viewers to its mobile apps. Fandango said the push will include both the Super Bowl advertising spot, social media outreach on Facebook and Twitter, as well as promotion across its site and apps. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2014

The latest venture out of Los Angeles-based entertainment news site Hitfix is perfect for those with mere seconds to spend on figuring out if that latest movie is worth investing time into. The new feature features--as advertised--six second reviews of current films in a very (very) short video. Leatherman is best known as "Mr.

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JULY 1, 2014

In today''s online world, there are audio streaming sites (Spotify et al), and there are video streaming sites (Youtube, Vevo, etc.); However, one local startup-- Vadio (www.vadio.com)--is hoping to bring those worlds together, by using technology to automatically add and synchronize video streaming to existing, audio streaming sites.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. It''s a very fractured process.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. As you can see in the LA landscape, there are already a tremendous number of YouTube channels, sites like FunnyOrDie, and CollegeHumor. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2013

A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. During an interview, he discusses that Hulu had its free version with 25 M uniques, which they needed to actively covert into premium subscribers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream&# and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. The folks over at Blip.tv

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Here is my case: 1.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

They understand that this user type will freely grant Facebook access to share their online activity, whether it is reading the news, listening to a song, or visiting some random site that really has no business engaging with your “friends”. How does Facebook know this? Think about it. The logic trail seems pretty straight forward to me.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. Yekra Theater does not send viewers to a specific site to their movies, it keeps them in the same place and prevents any distractions and confusions from the viewers. Yekra Theater does things a little differently.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. There's so much disruption in this space, it's an interesting opportunity for early stage startups.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company. There's so much disruption in this space, it's an interesting opportunity for early stage startups.

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JUNE 18, 2009

They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. MySpace should not require a login to get into the site, and I DON’T want to see my profile when I do log in. This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

They saw our passion for content, the Diaspora’s thirst for Nollywood movies, the site traffic and our plans to grow the company and we went from there. However, I can tell you that until recently, our business model was based purely on advertising and yes, it was profitable. Most popular film on the site? Profitable?

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development.

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JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). billion for the site in 2006. According to predictions and what I see on the many sites I have visited, there are still positives and negatives to consider: YouTube is already gigantic, so the interest is there.

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