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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.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. MSN & AOL. As have BigFrame and Machinima.

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

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While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Is Bird really defensible? Couldn’t anybody launch a competitor?

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? That’s a shame.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

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There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. I think we are coming to a world with enormous amounts of content available on demand. At first the big shakeup was the option to watch what you wanted, when you wanted it.

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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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It’s getting there – broadband penetration in Nigeria is still small compared to the West, but as demand grows, as the infrastructure is invested in and built, and as broadband costs fall so that the Internet is more accessible to more people, we expect iROKOtv to add even more registered users in Nigeria. We found that in Lagos.

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