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Streaming Wars: Netflix vs Amazon vs Hulu

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The big three options right now are Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and they’re getting bigger: Americans are watching more than an hour of streaming content per day , a number excepted to steadily increase over time. Hulu Basics. Hulu offers current shows ASAP. However, Hulu – and you – pay a price for these advantages.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really. Brand matters. Do you buy one?

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

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We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. READ MORE>>.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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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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How Vadio Is Putting The Video Into Music, With Bryce Clemmer

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Amplify was instrumental, because having a network down here in Los Angeles within the technology community, in addition to the media industry, was really the biggest value add in our early days. In online TV or sites like Hulu, you get roughly twenty minutes of content, and after that you get a one or two minute video ad.

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