Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Hulu becomes the market leader overnight

The big story in online video today is obviously the Hulu-Disney partnership that has been rumored for the past month.  When the deal nets out, all three media companies involved - Disney, Fox, and NBC - will each own 27% of Hulu.
While I haven’t seen any specific dates on when the Disney content will be [...]

Is Hulu Swimming Upstream?

Watercooler CEO Kevin Chou was interviewed by the LA Times today for a piece about Hulu removing its content from Boxee and TV.com over the last week.  In case you’ve been living in a cave, you can read all about this Internet video brouhaha at any of the following blogs:

NewTeeVee
TechCrunch
TV By The Numbers
PaidContent
And about 100 [...]

When I wrote a post last week about Lost Untangled, the new Lost-oriented Web series produced by ABC, I was unaware that the exact concept has been in production for around four years by Benni and Rafi Fine.  But after reading a piece from TubeFilter, I felt compelled to give the Fine Brothers their due [...]

If you believe Scrubs creator, Bill Lawrence, this season will be the first for Scrubs on ABC, but the last for new episodes.  Lawrence recently recently spoke to a group of students at College of William and Mary, and told them that he and Zach Braff are through after this season.
It may not be too [...]

FX recently pulled full-length episodes of it’s show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia from Hulu with little explanation regarding the reason.  That of course then impacted the ~30,000 TVLoop fans of the show.  The rationale is likely due to revenue protection as the perception within big media is that online video cannibalizes broadcast viewers which [...]

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