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adage.com - 3/12/2009

Hulu Now No. 2 Online-Video Site, Behind YouTube

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- One year after coming out of private beta, Hulu crossed a significant milestone: By one measure it's now the No. 2 video site in the U.S. behind YouTube, and the biggest purveyor of professional video on the web.

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Hulu Now No. 2 Online-Video Site, Behind YouTube
Silicon Alley Insider — ... viewers were also up 31% to 9.5 million, but Hulu disputes Nielsen's unique-visitors figure, and ComScore puts it nearly three times as high. The new figures put into context what NBC Universal and News Corp.'s joint venture has achieved, and the growing power of TV content on the web. NBC and Fox programming got Hulu off the ground, but now it has 130 deals with networks and studios. Its player has been embedded nearly 4 million times on more than 100,000 websites. Read the whole story at AdAge> Join the conversation about this story » ...

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WebProNews Feed — ... If the social network can bring them even more traffic, so much the better. Though their 309 million monthly video views have nothing on YouTube’s 5.2 billion, Hulu still stands to make a great profit from its current traffic. AdAge reports that television shows online command $40 to $50 per thousand viewers. ...