By Corey Kronengold, April 22nd, 2010
Well, the cat that was 99% out of the bag is now 100% out. The LA Times is reporting that Hulu could being testing their subscription model in late May.
The details of the plan also give me another opportunity to address and clarify my thoughts on ad loads in response to Forrester’s Nate Elliot [...]
By Corey Kronengold, April 21st, 2010
Since we all should have bought the stock $50 ago, we’ll leave the financials to the real analysts. But the number that jumped out at me as being most promising for the continued growth of our business was this one:
“Percentage of subscribers who watched instantly more than 15 minutes of a TV episode or [...]
By Corey Kronengold, April 13th, 2010
No, not Ben and I. The bigger “us.” The collective “us.” The ecosystem “us.” The online video landscape, from the creators to the technologists to the advertisers and everywhere in between, is as fragmented as the audiences we are after. And this is not a good thing. In fact, to steal from a children’s book, [...]
By Ben Homer, April 13th, 2010
We’ve been seeing and hearing a lot of backlash since Sunday night’s Streamy Awards and it’s raising a lot of questions about the seriousness of the online video community. Executive Producer Brady Brim-DeForest went so far as to apologize that the show “wasn’t in the spirit of how we wanted to recognize the nominees and [...]
By Corey Kronengold, April 11th, 2010
Don’t forget to celebrate online video’s own Oscar-style awards show, The Streamy Awards.
Visit the Streamy Awards site at 8:30p EST, 5:30p PST for main attraction. But if you care who anyone is wearing, log on starting 4pm PST / 7pm EST for the Red Carpet Show.
If you haven’t been watching at least a few [...]