adage.com - 2/18/2009
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- When NBC Universal and News Corp. created Hulu, they gave the video portal a valuable but short-term asset: exclusive rights to distribute NBC and Fox shows outside of the media giants' own websites. But the exclusive part of that deal lasts just two years, and ...
blog.hulu.com - 2/18/2009
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blog.hulu.com —
"I always like to look on the optimistic
side of life, but I am realistic enough to...
know that life is a complex matter." Walt Disney Later this week, Hulu's content will no longer be available through Boxee. While we never had a formal relationship ...
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Hulu Blog Doing hard things
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Hulu pulls video from TV.com
Download Squad —
... It's possible that CBS is planning to broker its own deals with the studios in order to increase the amount of ad revenue it receives (instead of splitting it with Hulu). But that wouldn't explain the whole Video unavailable fiasco. ...
Hulu Yanks Content from TV.com, the Race Begins
NewTeeVee —
... in January. Ad Age reports TV.com’s 5.9 million unique visitors in January is actually greater than the 4.5 million unique visitors Hulu received during that same month. However, Hulu still dwarfs TV.com when it comes to videos (and accompanying ads) being watched; the site served 7.2 million unique video views in January, compared with roughly 250,000 on TV.com. ...
Hulu Pulls Its Videos from TV.com
ReadWriteWeb —
... According to AdAge, TV.com was getting 10% of the ad revenue from views that originated from TV.com and AdAge speculates that TV.com could now potentially negotiate its own content deals. ...
TV.com vs. Hulu.com: Every Media Co. For Themselves
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology —
... News Corp./NBC’s joint venture Hulu.com just pulled its content from CBS’s TV.com, which has now been repurposed from a listings guide to a Hulu-inspired site with its own share of premium content. ...
Hulu Cuts Off CBS's TV.com, Rivalry Heats Up
Silicon Alley Insider —
... not a place to watch TV on the Web.
A CBS spokesperson told PaidContent that Hulu didn't give a reason for pulling its content.
We think it's simple: The sites are direct competitors now and Hulu has little incentive to share content with a rival, especially since CBS doesn't license its TV programming to Hulu. It would put Hulu at a disadvantage if TV.com were the only place Web viewers could find CBS, Fox and NBC content.
AdAge's Michael Learmonth on how the competition stacks up at the moment:
With 232 million total video streams in ...
Hulu Content Vanishes From TV.com
Wired: Epicenter —
... AdAge is reporting that agreements granting exclusive rights to NBC and News Corp content are nearing an end, and that TV.com might be looking to make some deals of their own. ...
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