watchout for HULU and TWITTER
Hulu is a website that offers free, ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.
Hulu provides video in Flash Video format in a higher resolution and bit-rate than YouTube, including many films and shows that are available in 480p. Also, some TV shows and movies are now offered in high-definition. Hulu also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo! and Comcast's Fancast.com. Hulu provides one of the largest free video selections from a collection of over 50 broadcasting networks. It allows the users to watch shows with limited commercial interruption by watching longer ads prior to the start of the selected program.
Screen Digest estimates that YouTube will make $100 million in US revenue this year compared to Hulu's $70 million. Next year, the firm estimates, both will make about $180 million.
Before moving on, it's worth noting that Screen Digest is presumably talking about gross revenue. Hulu passes a far larger percentage of revenue through to its content providers (70%-80%) than YouTube does, so with $70 million of gross revenue, Hulu's net revenue would be a paltry $14-$21 million. YouTube also shares some revenue with some content providers, but a far smaller percentage, which is why News Corp and NBC built Hulu in the first place.
Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, email or through an application such as TwitterFon, Twitterrific, Feedalizr or Facebook. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom-based number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email. Twitter had by one measure over 3 million accounts and by another, well over 5 million visitors in September 2008 which was a fivefold increase in a month.
Does one really need twitter? I've been wondering what it was...
ReplyDeletePlease enlighten me too on Hulu and Twitter.
ReplyDeleteThey sound like foreign languages.
I think twitter is where you send sms to the net, right?
If i could twit, it would be quite a hullabulloo (right spelling?) for my friends! (right usage of words?)
Anand, Posts on how Hulu and Twitter are used, (what fun they are) would be gratefully appreciated.
sure baskar
ReplyDeletewill make it my next post
how to hulu and twitter
These are two starters which could potentially become competitors to google on their areas
Hey, thanks for the shout-out to Fancast, and just to elaborate, in addition to shows from Hulu's parent companies (Fox and NBC) Fancast ALSO has amazing free programming from all the other major networks and producers, including ABC, CBS, The WB, and even pay channels like Showtime, HBO and Starz. We also have great movies too.
ReplyDeleteYou can check out the full libraries of free programming, TV at
http://www.fancast.com/full_episodes
and movies at
http://www.fancast.com/movies
Cheers,
Jim (for Fancast)