Silicon Alley Advisor’s Michael Learmonth has an interesting analysis today about Hulu – calling it a consumer success, but still a small business.

“On the low end, we estimate that Hulu.com will generate close to the revenue generated by, say NBC.com, which is said to generate “tens of millions” in revenue this year. On the high end, Hulu would net $90 million in gross ad sales — in the same league as some estimates for YouTube.”

It’s a good analysis – but Learmonth misses a key difference between Hulu and YouTube….

Internet TV site Hulu is fighting back at users that use ad-blocking software, warning them that they need to disable the software. “This program is brought to you by Hulu’s advertising partners,” notes the site. “If you see this message repeatedly, you may need to disable your ad blocking software.” The video then resumes playing […]

Mark Cuban has a must-read post over at Blog Maverick looking at Internet television service Hulu and Google‘s struggle to make its investment in YouTube pay off. Cuban argues that Google made a billion-dollar mistake buying YouTube, and that Hulu is “kicking YouTube’s ass”. It’s an interesting comparison, and one that may provide some insight […]

Internet research firm HitWise reports that, while Hulu is getting big shows, it’s not getting big audiences.  Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since: Alexa’s reach chart mirrors this: The […]

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report are among the two latest additions to Hulu’s offerings. This could take Hulu’s traffic to another level, given the two shows’ popularity and late-night time slots. We’d still like to see Hulu fix its ad targeting and for it to work with set-top boxes to […]

Hulu today added a smart feature to its embedded videos: video search: We’ve just released a new feature that lets you search for videos from Hulu players that are embedded on blogs, social networking sites and similar pages on the Web. Your search results will appear directly in the Hulu video screen, and you don’t […]

It looks like mainstream broadcasters will have to come to terms with YouTube, video podcasts and other Internet media or they’ll face the same fate as newspapers. TVWeek reports that this year’s May television ratings sweeps are a debacle: Low ratings during the February sweeps may have been a fluke due to the writers strike, […]

Excited about the new version of Speed Racer? Hulu has a collection of classic Speed Racer episodes available on demand as streaming video.

Earlier in the year, we noted that bad advertising is holding back online TV, citing the poorly targeted, overlong and disruptive ads on Hulu as an example. Anyone that thinks that you are going to sit through traditional television advertising when you’re watching online videos is out of touch, at best. This view is starting […]

Internet video site Hulu launches today, offering full-length episodes of more than 250 TV series, including Lost and The Simpsons, along with older hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In addition, Hulu will feature content from the Warner Bros Television Group, Lionsgate and from sports leagues. According to the company, it has already attracted over […]