Hulu not only had the smartest Super Bowl ad last night, but they’ve put together an embeddable Super Bowl Ad Widget. It’s a great idea, but their execution has one major flaw: Hulu is showing ads before the ads! Fail! Anyone who says thinks that advertising is dead on the Internet, though, only needs to […]
The Associated Press has picked Hulu as its Website of the Year: In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. “This is period of great experimentation in regard to media, in regard to online video,” said Hulu chief […]
comScore released its latest stats today on online media use. Here are comScore’s top ten video destinations, ranked by numbers (in thousand) of videos viewed: Google Sites – 5,373,783 Fox Interactive Media -Â 519,926 Yahoo! Sites -Â 363,426 Viacom Digital -Â 305,258 Microsoft Sites -Â 286,464 Hulu -Â 235,096 Turner Network -Â 228,024 Disney Online -Â 126,611 AOL LLC -Â 122,580 ESPN -Â 104,724 […]
Mainstream Internet video startup Hulu has posted a collection of videos that explain the site’s video sharing features. While you can’t share your personal videos on Hulu, the site at least makes it easy to embed videos in blog posts, share on social medi sites and email. Now, if they’d just make embeddable videos permanently […]
The New Tee Vee conference is underway today in San Francisco. Om Malik, one of the conference’s founders, says they started the event “in order to closely track and monitor the growth of online video.” This year’s gathering features panels and presentations from people involved in “old tee vee” (the creator of the CSI: series, […]
New Media Links For 11/12/2008: The U.S. military is taking on YouTube. It’s launched TroopTube – a site for troops, their families and supporters – a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites. It’s like YouTube, but without the audience. blinkx is claiming to have 32 million hours of […]
Popular children’s program “Sesame Street” is celebrating its 39th year on the air with a move into Internet media, a Reuters article reports. The public television show, which debuted in 1969, is broadcast in 140 countries, and now will also be available on Hulu, YouTube, and via the iTunes Music Store, according to Sesame Workshop […]
Time has selected its picks for the top inventions of 2008 and Internet video startup Hulu made the list, at #4. About Hulu, Time notes: When cable eventually dies, websites like Hulu will be held responsible. Unlike YouTube and other amateur-video-upload sites, Hulu is a hub for network TV shows and movies: Hulu offers shows […]
We love Halloween almost as much as we love Internet media. Luckily, there are lots of ways to get your Halloween fix with new media. Here are some of our favorites: Watch Night Of The Living Dead On Hulu It’s an hour and 36 minute zombie creepfest. What more do you need?
Who needs analog television? 30 Rock debuts this year on Hulu, at NBC.com, right here at Podcasting News and anywhere else you want to watch it. NBC is debuting the season premiere online a full seven days before its on-air takeoff. While NBC can’t expect Tina Fey to always pull in twice as many people […]
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