Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers. Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply.

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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. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. So it is quite lofty to compare hulu with OPEC. Here is my case: 1.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example. Monetizing content is going to be a moving target.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. And the more you succeed the more advertisers in search of endemic audiences want to advertise with you. And so forth.

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