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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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Cord-cutting for Kids: Video App Kanopy Adds Free Children’s Shows

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If you’ve already liberated yourself from a cable subscription in favor of streaming video services over the Internet, you’re parcelling out your dollars to get the content you want most from services such as Netflix, Hulu, and N.B.A. League Pass.

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Cord Cutting: How to Get High-Speed Internet Without Cable, 2017 Edition

Xconomy

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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Beyond the Demo: 2018 Could Be Year for Longer, Profitable VR Content

Xconomy

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Internet Video is Hot, But Not a Money-Maker Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers. Video is going mobile with the high bandwidth like all new applications. It looks like YouTube has a lock on the video blogging, which is still coming of age and yet to make money. billion for the site in 2006.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

Both Sides of the Table

And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. So it goes with blogging. Think Hulu is done by the studios for all good reasons?

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. But we also have produced low-cost, short-form shows that have been picked up on broadcast television and we’re working on shows to be delivered OTT on platforms like Go90 (Verizon), Roku, Amazon, Hulu and the like.

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