socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

A report Wednesday afternoon says that Los Angeles-based streaming media site Hulu has hired investment banking firm Guggenheim Partners, to advise the firm on a sale. The report from Reuters , citing three sources with knowledge of the matter, said there''s an ongoing auction process for Hulu. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Further details on the potential sale of Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu continue to emerge, with the firm reportedly retaining investment bankers Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners to represent it in a sale. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 31, 2018

LA County weighs electronic voting options; Activision issues Overwatch League changes; Hulu grows revenue 86 percent

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

The long, turbulent history of the video-on-demand technology developed by former Marina Del Rey-based CinemaNow continues today, after current owner Rovi Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it plans to pursue a sale of its Rovi Entertainment Stores business--the remains of CinemaNow.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Distribber.com isa new-model flat-fee distribution service that places independent films on digital sales platforms such as iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Cable VOD while allowing filmmakers to keep 100% of their revenue. Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2014

As soon as TrueCar started growing at a phenomenal pace and dealers who understood it was an amazing channel to acquire customers (they only pay a fee if TrueCar sells a the car) a few dealers in every area started sucking up all of the sales. Luddite dealers started petitioning state governments to make TrueCar illegal. Turkey or China?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

For about 50 years, (…cough M) Ad Men, or marketing and sales individuals, have been the kings of organizational hierarchy … and then came the Internet of things and engineers took over the throne. A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescu’s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Here is my case: 1.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. I constantly had to execute on one deal, and go on to the next. That's how we make our money.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Why a new, streaming service -- and how is this different from Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc? In the same way that rentals and physical sales lived side by side with subscriptions for years and years, digital rentals and digital sales will live side by side with digital subscriptions.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

We''re now in beta, and are incorporating services like iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu, and will be incorporating more (this) year. Phoebe Scott: Right now, we''re affiliates of other sites that we work with, such as iTunes and Hulu. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Robyn Ward is the Director of Sales and Business Development at BetterWorks, which offers companies and their employees pre-negotiated perks in a simple, cost-saving platform. ROBYN WARD. KRISHNA SUBRAMANIAN.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The firm’s say the 3M Streaming Projector is powered by the Roku Streaming Stick and will provide access to over 600 channels on the Roku platform including paid channels like Netflix®, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant Video to free channels like Crackle. US $30 Billion Sales. 600 Channels On 120 Inches & Long Battery Life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales. We developed films for half a million to a million for distribution to places like Hulu and Snagfilms, and Yahoo, that sort of things. That's Michael Eisner's company, and Larry Tanz is president.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Or what about your sales team? ” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC. You just need to give journalists, your marketing department, your sales team, your VCs and everybody else who becomes an ambassador for your brand a simpler way to tell your story.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. Communications is being changed by people like Twitter, commerce by people like GroupOn, informed by people like DemandMedia and entertainment by people like Hulu.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, MSN & AOL. This type of “affiliate” traffic might represent 20% of your overall traffic.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. I think that it's pretty uncommon to go through a sale process, unless it's out of desperation. You have to search for everything online, which his tough when you don't know what you're looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Saturday evening came to a “closing” with the Coloft tradition of the famous scene from Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin defines the meaning of “closing” while he gives a nearly Oscar winning sales talk to motivate his staff. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Coffee is for closers!”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. ” THE SALES PLATFORM. Two articles, side by side. They seemed random but created a pretty significant message.” Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?”

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. . • Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

We helped talent with O&O (owned & operated websites) and with ad sales. We built great assets for tracking analytics and royalty management. We built creators tools and website builders. We sold brand integration. We had a studio and invested in content creation. We did a hell of a lot. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year. Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. I did this when I talked about my metaphor that Hulu was like Opec. Stupidly I never tested my model with Hulu themselves until after the blog post was published. Were they vertically integrated ?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Trying searching for something on Hulu. Try it first for content that is on Hulu and then for content that is not. And Hulu’s search is actually reasonable. And then try it on Hulu. It’s clear that when people watch movies now they Tweet about it when they get out and this has an impact on box office sales.

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