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Hulu Hits $1 Billion In Revenues

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Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu said Wednesday that it will reach $1 billion in revenue this year, up from the $695M in revenues it had in 2012, and also now has 5 million subscribers on its Hulu Plus premium service, six years after the company''s launch in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu Revenue Rise To $695M; Tops 3M Paying Subscribers

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Hulu , the online video streaming site headed by Jason Kilar, detailed its 2012 numbers today, saying that it will close the year with approximately $695M in revenues, a growth of over 65% since 2011. Hulu said its subscriber count more than doubled during the year. READ MORE>>.

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Hulu: $420M In Revenues, 1.5 Million Paying Subscribers

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Los Angeles-based Hulu CEO Jason Kilar said Thursday afternoon that the company brought in approximately $420M in revenues in 2011, up 60 percent from 2010, and now has more than 1.5 million paying subscribers to Hulu Plus. Kilar disclosed the numbers in a blog post summarizing the firm's 2011.

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Hulu Inks Deal With Univision

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Los Angeles-based Hulu is reporting today that it has inked a deal with Univision , to carry "hundreds of hours" of Spanish language novelas and other content to the video streaming site. Financial details of the deal between Hulu and Univision were not announced.

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Hulu Launches Personalized Ad Feature

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Los Angeles-based Hulu said Monday that it has rolled out a new feature which will let users pick their own commercials mid-stream, flipping any commercial to another advertising choice on its site. Hulu did not say if it intends to use that clickstream of data to further shape personalization of its ads or profiling of its users.

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Hulu Streams Presidential Address, Allows Embedding

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Los Angeles-based streaming video site Hulu said this afternoon that it is streaming the presidential address at 5:00p.m. Hulu said the stream, which will also be made available internationally, can be embedded into any blog or web site through a widget. Tags: hulu streaming video gulf spill president obama. READ MORE>>.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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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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