AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Silicon Alley Insider
Since Hulu launched three months ago, it has become a consumer success, joining Nielsen’s top-10 video sites, and serving more video in May than ABC.com.
What does that mean in terms of gross ad sales for the NBC U - News Corp. JV? Not much. And net revenue? Even less.
We estimate Hulu will sell [...]

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Crave
Sony has just confirmed the rumor we all heard back in April: video downloads will be available on the PS3 this summer. Details right now are scarce, but we do know the service will first be rolled out in the United States, followed by Japan and Europe later in the year. As we mentioned before, [...]

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Seeking Alpha
Hulu.com, the online video site owned jointly by NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) launched earlier this year, currently streams numerous network and cable television programs (and a few movies too), including the majority of NBC’s and Fox’s Primetime lineups. Both Fox.com and NBC.com continue to stream most of their respective programming, either [...]

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NewTeeVee
Hulu has added an innovative new feature: search within embeds. Now if you’re watching a Hulu embed (example below) on another site, you can search for something else to watch without leaving the player. The video site already has an extremely unselfish search engine, pointing outside to content when it doesn’t have video of its [...]

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paidContent.org
During the TV upfront period, which began last week, online publishers have realized they have to try a little harder to capture advertisers’ attention. With that likely in mind, Hulu says it has expanded its distribution network to CNET’s (NSDQ: CNET) TV.com video guide and viewing site (which eventually will be owned by CBS (NYSE: [...]

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Techdirt
from the didn’t-see-that-coming dept

We’ve covered the bizarre love/hate affair that NBC Universal has had with YouTube. It actually helped get YouTube its first burst of serious publicity in demanding the SNL “Lazy Sunday” clip be taken down off the site. It then went back (setting up its own YouTube channel) and forth (blaming YouTube for [...]

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Advertising Age
Also Plans Cartoon Site, KidsWB.com, to Feature Looney Tunes
Hulu may be a singular name, but it isn’t such a singular media property anymore. Time Warner’s Warner Bros. studio unveiled plans today to revive the dormant WB broadcast-TV network as an online-video site, along with another site devoted to KidsWB, its kiddie-TV sibling.
TheWB.com is slated [...]

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NewTeeVee
Break out your puffy shirts, TBS has started streaming full episodes of Seinfeld, giving the network a new place to sell ads while giving the finger to Mac users who won’t be able to watch.
MediaPost speculates that the show about nothing is only legally available online at TBS. And just like shows on Hulu, the [...]

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informitv
“The early signs are very promising,” said Jason Kilar, the chief executive of Hulu, just a month after the public launch of the ambitious online video venture. Speaking at the NAB convention in Las Vegas, he came across as confident and composed, addressing an audience that a few years ago might have been dismissive or [...]

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Hulu.com

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, but it was refreshing nevertheless to see Hulu CEO Jason Kilar make the case yesterday at the National Assn. of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas for networks and studios to be more aggressive in making content available online. His admonition: when competing for viewers on the Net, it’s [...]

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