{"id":17376,"date":"2014-04-21T01:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T05:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2014-04-21T13:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:28:48","slug":"hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf235\/2014\/04\/21\/hulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Caroline Soss<\/pre>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [1]<\/a> www.crunchbase.com<\/p><\/div>\n
ADDRESS<\/h2>\n
12312 West Olympic Boulevard
\nLos Angeles, CA 90064 [2]<\/a><\/p>\n
CONTACT<\/h2>\n
Phone (310) 570-4700
\nWebsite www.hulu.com<\/a>
\nTwitter @hulu<\/a><\/p>\n
PROFILE<\/h2>\n
Hulu<\/a> is an over-the-top video service provider streaming on-demand programming from NBC, ABC, A&E, AMC, FOX, The CW, MTV and more.<\/p>\n
Hulu offers advertisement-supported<\/a> free programming with limited commercial interruption on its website Hulu.com<\/a>. Regular advertisers include Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, Microsoft, GEICO and Target.<\/p>\n
\"[4]vulture\"<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [4]<\/a> www.vulture.com<\/p><\/div>For a monthly fee of $7.99, Hulu Plus <\/a>subscribers can stream unlimited premium and exclusive content from any Hulu+ enabled device. These devices<\/a> include smart televisions, game consoles, smartphones\/tablets and media players like Apple TV<\/a> and Roku<\/a> [3]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hulu delivers over 70,400 hours of video from 514 different content partners [5]<\/a>. Hulu streams popular TV shows such as FAMILY GUY, SCANDAL, THE VOICE, PARKS AND RECREATION, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART [6]<\/a> and more than 800 films from The Criterion Collection<\/a> [7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [6]<\/a> www.hulu.com<\/p><\/div>Hulu also produces its own original content like DEADBEAT, EAST LOS HIGH, THE AWESOMES and THE HOTWIVES OF ORLANDO [8]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Watch Hulu’s promo for their 2014 Originals here<\/a>. Video courtesy of: [9]<\/a> www.hulu.com.<\/em><\/p>\n
Hulu.com<\/a> was launched in 2008 as a joint venture between Comcast’s NBCUniversal and News Corporation [10]<\/a>. Today, NBCUniversal, The Walt Disney Company’s Disney-ABC Television Group and 21st Century Fox’s Fox Broadcasting Company together own Hulu’s online subscription service [11]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As of February 2014, Hulu reported more than five million Hulu+ subscribers and thirty million monthly free service users [12]<\/a> with over four billion videos streamed in 2013 [13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
KEY EXECUTIVES<\/h2>\n
\"CEO<\/a>
CEO Mike Hopkins, photo courtesy of: [14]<\/a> www.engadget.com<\/p><\/div>\n
Last October, Hulu replaced its acting CEO with Mike Hopkins<\/strong>, former President of Distribution at Fox for five years [14]<\/a>.\u00a0Within weeks of joining the company, Hopkins hired Disney’s Elaine Paul<\/strong> as CFO [11]<\/a>. In February 2014, Hopkins hired NBC’s Peter Naylor<\/strong> as SVP of Advertising Sales [13]<\/a> and Sony’s Tiam Lim<\/strong> as Chief Technology Officer [12]<\/a>. In March 2014, Disney’s Tim Connolly<\/strong> joined the company as Head of Distribution [15]<\/a>. In April 2014, Warner Bros.’ Craig Erwich<\/strong> was hired as Hulu’s SVP and Head of Content [16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
FINANCIALS<\/h2>\n
Hulu is a privately held company and not required to publicly release its financial information. However, CEO Mike Hopkins reported Hulu earning one billion dollars in annual revenue at the end of last year [17]<\/a>. In 2013, Hulu’s owners (Comcast, Disney and 21st Century Fox) also dropped offers to sell Hulu and instead invested $750 million dollars into the company [11]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [18]<\/a> www.techcrunch.com<\/p><\/div>\n
FOCUS IN THE U.S.<\/h2>\n
In February 2014, Hulu sold its Japanese subsidiary to Tokyo-based Nippon Television Network Corporation<\/a>. Since 2011, Hulu had streamed 13,000+ videos from fifty different American and European content providers to Japan. While Hulu will continue to make its content and brand available for use by Nippon TV as well as provide infrastructure service to the Japanese company, Hulu will focus on the U.S. rather than internationally [19]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
MULTI-PLATFORM<\/h2>\n
Hulu aims to operate on all types of platforms with 50% of Hulu+ subscribers streaming solely on devices [17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [21]<\/a> blog.hulu.com<\/p><\/div>In April 2014, Amazon.com<\/a> launched Amazon Fire TV<\/a> \u2013 the company’s new set-top box\/game console hybrid positioned to replace media players like Apple TV<\/a>, Roku<\/a>\u00a0and Xbox <\/a>[20]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Amazon Fire TV streams not only Amazon’s own online video subscription service (Amazon Prime<\/a>) but also partner on-demand services, including Hulu Plus. Hulu promises the “most enhanced and updated version of the Hulu Plus Living Room experience on Amazon Fire TV” [21]<\/a>. Further, Amazon added Hulu Plus to the list of services available through voice search by speaking into the Fire TV remote \u2013 making Hulu even easier to utilize on this new platform [22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
NEW CONTENT<\/h2>\n
Hulu is continuing to grow its content library with both current season television and original programming [17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [23]<\/a> blog.hulu.com<\/p><\/div>In April 2014, CEO Mike Hopkins announced Hulu will be exclusively streaming NBCUniversal-produced THE MINDY PROJECT<\/a>\u00a0and Golden Globe-winning comedy BROOKLYN NINE-NINE <\/b><\/a>as well as popular series like KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS <\/b><\/a>and TOP CHEF<\/a>. These high-in-demand hit programs will not be available to competitors Netflix or Amazon Prime, ultimately giving Hulu monopoly control over more content [23]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Hulu also recently acquired the rights to stream ELEMENTARY<\/a>, the highly rated CBS drama starring Jonny Lee Miller<\/a> and Lucy Liu<\/a> [24]<\/a>, and popular CBS classics like THE BRADY BRUNCH and CHEERS.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [25]<\/a> blog.hulu.com<\/p><\/div>Hulu is expanding its library of popular TV shows from past decades [25]<\/a>. This may be a tactic to keep fairly older viewers, who grew up with this content, entertained; 60% of Hulu subscribers fall between the ages of 18 and 49 years old with an average age of 39 [26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [26]<\/a> www.hulu.com\/advertising<\/p><\/div>However, the Nielsen Company<\/a> will continue excluding broadband-only households, a large total of Hulu Plus viewership, in the ratings for the 2014-2015 television season [27]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
ORIGINAL CONTENT<\/h2>\n
Hulu developed twenty original series in 2013 and plans to launch twenty more this year [28]<\/a>. Hulu’s original shows THE AWESOMES<\/a>, BEHIND THE MASK<\/a> and THE WRONG MANS <\/a>were among the top ten weekly shows watched on Hulu when they aired in 2013 and were all recently renewed for another season in 2014 [17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
New in 2014, Hulu’s original comedy series DEADBEAT<\/a>, starring Tyler Labine<\/a>, is receiving strong reviews from Variety, the New York Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer since its premiere [29]<\/a>. All ten episodes of the show’s first season were uploaded to Hulu on April 9th, 2014, and only hours later DEADBEAT as dubbed “Hulu’s best show yet” [30]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
Photo courtesy of: [29]<\/a> www.hulu.com<\/p><\/div>DEADBEAT follows Kevin Pacalioglu (Tyler Labine<\/a>), a lazy stoner who can see the dead and becomes a freelance medium to pay his rent, helping ghosts move on to the afterlife by competing in eating contests and proposition their ex-girlfriends.<\/p>\n
Watch the DEADBEAT series trailer here<\/a>. Video courtesy of: [31]<\/a> www.hulu.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/em>Critics, however, argue that Hulu being owned by television companies may explain why competitor Netflix is still spending so much more than Hulu on original programming [32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
TV EVERYWHERE<\/h2>\n
In the past year, Hulu has hired 260 new employees to complete a staff of more than 725 members with plans to continue growing the company [17]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
As public interest in more convenient Internet TV Everywhere services grows, analysts predict subscribers may more easily authenticate their pay services through a social media account like Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> \u2013 a business tactic that may be in Hulu’s near future [33]<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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SOURCES<\/h2>\n
[1] Hulu CrunchBase Profile<\/a>. CrunchBase.<\/i> RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[2] Company Overview of Hulu, LLC<\/a>. Bloomberg BusinessWeek<\/i>. RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[3] Hulu \u2013 About<\/a>. Hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[4] \u201cStreaming Scorecard: Is Hulu Plus Still the TV King?\u201d<\/a> Vulture. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[5] \u201cHulu Names Warner Bros. TV\u2019s Craig Erwich Head of Content.\u201d<\/a> Variety<\/i>.\u00a0 RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[6] Hulu Popular TV Shows.<\/a> Hulu.com.<\/i> RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n
[7] \u201c\u2018The Great Beauty\u2019 Debuts Only on Hulu Plus.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[8] \u201cA New Year With New Hulu Originals.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[9] Hulu Promos 2014 Hulu Originals.<\/a> Hulu.com.<\/i> RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n
[10] \u201cHulu Opens to Public.\u201d<\/a> Hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[11] \u201cHulu Hires Disney\u2019s Elaine Paul as CFO.\u201d<\/a> Variety. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[12] \u201cA World-Class Builder Joins the Hulu Ranks.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[13] \u201cA Big Sales Win \u2013 Welcome Peter Naylor.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[14] \u201cHulu officially announces its new CEO, former Fox exec Mike Hopkins.\u201d<\/a> Engadget. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[15] \u201cHulu Hires Disney\u2019s Tim Connolly as Head of Distribution.\u201d<\/a> Variety<\/i>. RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[16] \u201cHulu Original Series Chief Departs Amid New Programming Push.\u201d<\/a> The Hollywood Reporter. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[17] \u201cA Strong 2013.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[18] \u201cThe Second Screen Becomes The First Screen: Hulu Says 50% Of Its 5M Subscribers Use Devices Exclusively.\u201d<\/a> TechCrunch. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[19] \u201cHulu Says Sayonara, Sells Off Japanese Unit to Nippon TV.\u201d<\/a> TechCrunch<\/i>. RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[20] \u201cAmazon Fire TV review: the set-top that tries to do everything.\u201d<\/a> Engadget. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[21] \u201cHulu Plus on Amazon Fire TV.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[22] \u201cAmazon Fire TV\u2019s voice search expands to cover Hulu Plus and Showtime, but not Netflix.\u201d<\/a> Engadget. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[23] \u201cWe\u2019re Flipping Out for NBCU Library Shows Only on Hulu Plus.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[24] \u201cHulu Plus Acquires Subscription Video on Demand Rights for Popular CBS Drama \u2018ELEMENTARY.\u2019\u201d<\/a> Business Wire. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[25] \u201cMore CBS Shows Coming to a Hulu Plus Screen Near You.\u201d<\/a> Blog.hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[26] Hulu Advertising.<\/a> Hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/18\/14<\/p>\n
[27] \u201cNielsen Capitulates, Agrees to Withhold Broadband Households from Local Ratings \u2013 For Now.\u201d<\/a> MediaPost. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[28] Hulu Exclusive Series.<\/a> HuluMovies. <\/i>RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n
[29] Deadbeat.<\/a> Hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n
[30] \u201c\u2018Deadbeat\u2019 Is Hulu\u2019s Best Show Yet.\u201d<\/a> Flavorwire. <\/i>RT: 4\/19\/14<\/p>\n
[31] Deadbeat Series Trailer.<\/a> Hulu.com. <\/i>RT: 4\/21\/14<\/p>\n
[32] \u201cNetflix has nothing to fear from Hulu\u2019s sad little content expansion.\u201d<\/a> BGR. <\/i>RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n
[33] \u201cHulu\u2019s Original Content Strategy Continues to Progress Steadily.\u201d<\/a> Adweek<\/i>. RT: 4\/20\/14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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