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Last Bytes: Andy Grove, Sarah Palin, "movage," and more
Tech Observer —
The car is the next microprocessor frontier, says Andy Grove. [WSJ] More job cuts: Alcatel-Lucent to trim 1,000. [NYT] Peter Kafka notes that Hulu's traffic fell in November and blames it on the absence of Sarah Palin. [AllThingsD] The latest digitally-inspired word creation: "movage." (You know, instead of "storage" for your files, there's "movage" for them.) [Wired.com] Marissa Mayer gets engaged. [Valleywag] Related Links SNL Strives to Keep Election Momentum Hear the One About ...
Report: Sarah Palin destroying Web video [Online Video]
Gawker: valleywag —
... We've uncovered what's really killing the online-advertising business: Sarah Palin! Or rather, the lack thereof. Traffic at Hulu, NBC's YouTube wannabe, tumbled in November without the ...
Hulu's Sarah Palin Boost Over: Traffic Drops In November
Silicon Alley Insider —
Are the days of Web site Hulu's phenomenal growth over? Traffic at Hulu.com fell more than 10% in November.
Peter Kafka:
ComScore says that traffic to the joint venture between News Corp.'s (NWS) Fox and GE's (GE) NBC fell 10.8 percent from October to November, dropping from 5.3 million unique visitors to 4.8 million.
ComScore (SCOR) says U.S. traffic at Google's (GOOG) YouTube also dropped that month, but by a much smaller margin-0.006 percent. And since YouTube is a global property, those numbers are less telling. Hulu, meanwhile, is a U.S.-only ...
How to Look at Hulu’s November Numbers [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... unique visitors dropped to 4.8 million in November from 5.3 million in October, according to numbers released today by comScore. It’s important to note, however, that these are comScore Media Metrix numbers, not comScore Video Metrix numbers. ...
Web video traffic drops in November. Sarah Palin's fault?
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... ComScore, the research firm, said today that traffic to YouTube dropped a teensy bit, about 0.0006%, in November from the month before. But it was much worse for two sites -- Hulu traffic fell almost 11% and NBC.com's dropped in half! Peter Kafka at All Things Digital's MediaMemo blog says there's a good reason: After Nov. 4, there were no more of Tina Fey's pitch-perfect send-ups of the Alaska governor turned vice presidential candidate on "Saturday Night Live." And Hulu (a joint venture between NBC and Fox) and NBC.com were the only websites ...
Weekend Update, 12/12/08
Digital Daily —
... In a cold bit of circumstance, almost any company can feel a little bit better by comparing itself to Nortel (NT), which lost an astonishing 97 percent of its value this year.
MediaMemo wrote about CBS’s (CBS) appointment with the piper–it spent $1.8 billion on CNET last year, and started paying the consequences this week. The re-org of the entire CBS Interactive group is laid out in Quincy Smith’s memo to its staff. Hulu was hurting this past week, too. Its traffic dropped sharply in the absence of Tina Fey/Sarah Palin viral ...
Watch this: Our top ten videos of 2008
VentureBeat —
... , and fueled arguments that the impersonation was sexist (pfft, wouldn’t it be more sexist if they didn’t parody her?) and concerns that it made Palin even more popular with right-wingers. After the election, a lack of Sarah Palin could’ve contributed to a drop in Hulu’s traffic in November, says MediaMemo. As for me, I’m retiring my usage of the word “maverick.” ...
Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... Earlier, there was some kerfuffle over whether Hulu had seen a significant post-election drop in video traffic, though I think Chris did a good job ...
