I knew Dwight’s stint as manager of the Scranton office would end with hilarious results. But did I see that coming? Not in a million years. But of course, the moment he strutted out with his holster (and gun!), it was clear that Dwight’s dream would come to an end with explosive results. And when the gun went off—luckily damaging only Andy’s hearing—I immediately jumped on Facebook to see what my friends had to say. Of course, this exact moment was the talk of Hulu in the morning.
TV has always been a social experience. We gather with friends and family to watch our favorite shows, sporting events, movies, and news. When we get to work, we meet around the water cooler and chat about Tracy Jordan’s latest stunt in the previous night’s 30 Rock. We text each other during the results of The Voice, and we blog about the latest politician skewered in Jon Stewart’s opening monologue.
Today, we are making the Hulu experience even more social with Facebook on Hulu.
Interact. We are excited to announce a new feature that is the first-of-its-kind and one that we think will become a staple at Hulu going forward. One of the most exciting features we are launching today is the ability to comment on a specific moment in time while watching any video on Hulu, and with one click, instantly share those remarks — and the relevant video moment from the program — on Facebook for all your friends to see. When you comment on a Hulu video, that exact moment will appear on Facebook so your friends can jump in and react right away. And since friends can respond to your comments, you can have those water cooler conversations online at any time. We’ve been using this feature in test mode here at Hulu HQ for a bit…and we are officially addicted. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Personalize. Now you can easily log on to Hulu—or create a new account—using your Facebook account. From there, you’ll be able to interact with all of your Facebook friends. You’ll log into a homepage tailored to you, where you can see your friends’ favorite shows, and start conversations with anybody who follows the same shows you do.
Discover. I discovered some of my favorite shows (like Coupling—the UK version, of course) because a friend recommended them. With Facebook on Hulu, you can introduce your friends to shows you’re rooting for, and discover new favorites with the help of your friends, too.
Connect. To link your Hulu and Facebook accounts, use the “Connect” button on your next visit to Hulu. Or visit http://www.hulu.com.
The entire social experience on Hulu is being supported by our partners at Coors Light and Microsoft’s decision engine Bing. Bing is also providing a free 1-month Hulu Plus subscription to users who make the decision to “go social” by signing up for Facebook on Hulu.
We’re very excited about the above efforts which we believe make TV fundamentally more social. Let us know what you think!
Its such as you read my thoughts! You seem to understand a lot about this, such as you wrote the book in it or something. I feel that you can do with some p.c. to force the message home a little bit, but instead of that, that is excellent blog. An excellent read. I will certainly be back.
Interesting blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A design like yours with a few simple tweeks would really make my blog shine.
Please let me know where you got your design.
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I’m sorry for the trouble! I’d be happy to help out, but we may be better equipped to do so via ( http://www.hulu.com/support ). Let us know there and we’ll get this all squared away.
For some reason the email associated with my facebook connected account is a weird @proxymail.hulu.com and it won’t let me reset my password. I can’t figure out what my password is and I want to look at my account information. Help!
Can you tell me the device you’re using? If it’s a computer, just go directly to http://www.hulu.com. If it’s any other device, a Hulu Plus subscription will be required, which is my you might be seeing that screen. If you need more in-depth assistance, please contact us at http://www.hulu.com/support.
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I used to love Hulu.. even if I had to wait a month for one of my shows… it was still worth it.. I am a senior and on a fixed income and only have basic tv.. (all I can afford) so counted on HULU to watch my shows.. now you want me to purchase Hulu Plus to watch my shows.. so I will quit HULU all together as I can not afford another bill… way to go.. make it harder for those of us who counted on you..
My name is Tyler Holbrook and I have to go on record by saying that you are not fully utilizing your ad potential. I am a businessman with a degree in business administration and a degree in psychology, put those together and you have a marketer extraordinaire. I feel that this service has the ability to be one of the leading marketers and has the ability to charge top dollar for their ad space, close to the price of a Super Bowl commercial. You collect demographics from your Hulu Plus subscribers when they register for an account. However you do not require all viewers to register to view content, I feel that you should make registration a requirement. This allows you to collect demographic information to cross analyze and create genuine add tailoring. These demographics are priceless! You can then cross analyze your demographics with the content viewed by those individuals. You can provide information to the companies that purchase ad space though you. Here is an example, take Geico into consideration (a company who currently advertises with you). After you collect all your information you tell the sales people at Geico that most males who watch Family Guy are more likely to say they relate to your commercial (by participating in the Ad Tailor). Then if they choose to continue to advertise on the Family Guy channel, you can charge them more than if they were going to advertise on One Tree Hill. This further assists you by providing additional demographics to companies like Geico by cross selling the ad space on American Dad, which is a similar show to Family Guy. You could even create a database that indicates how many of those Family Guy viewers also watch American Dad, thus providing Geico with another way to reach their customers.
To be honest I don’t know how you create contracts with your advertisers, if you sell a particular amount of spots, or if you specifically state a channel and a number of slots available. I feel that you should take a more psychological approach to things. Most men will sit through a whole episode, however most women will either get bored or allow their minds to wonder and leave or tune out towards the end of an episode. This is why you should place commercials which are more targeted at men towards the end of a program.
I feel that your Ad Tailor also needs some work. I noticed that if I state I relate to a commercial, then that commercial will come on again during the next commercial break. However, it will ask me once again if I relate to that commercial. Why do I need to do that again? I am logged in, my profile should have recorded that information and not asked me to answer that question again. I also notice that if I state I do not relate to a particular advertisement then it will not come on again during that show, but if I am to watch another show (even the same program, just a different episode) the advertisement will come on again, and again I am asked if I relate to it. My profile should be recording this and storing it into a database to truly offer ad tailoring and customization to not only benefit your viewers, but also your investors, and ad space customers.
If you wish to discuss this further please feel free to contact me at tyler.holbrook@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration.
I’ve clicked “No” on “is this ad relevant to you” on the Geico commercials hundreds of times. I will never and I mean never purchase their shitty products and yet you continue to ram their stupid childish advertising down my throat. Hulu advertising is about as personalised as a q-tip.
[...] In Q3, we made TV much more social through two new integrations with Facebook. In July, we launched Facebook Connect on Hulu and, in September, we launched the Hulu on Facebook app. Through Facebook Connect, Hulu and Hulu [...]
Thanks for writing. The intention of Ad Tailor is to increase the relevance of the ads you see on hulu.com.
Ad Tailor works by offering you the option of giving us feedback on every video ad’s relevance to you. When viewing an ad, you will notice the question “Is this ad relevant to you?” and a “yes” and “no” button. While we are interested in your opinion of the ad creative, what’s more critical for us is whether the product or service is relevant to you. We can’t change our advertisers’ creative, but we’ll try to use your feedback to adjust the ads you see in the future, when possible. Unfortunately, clicking “no” doesn’t guarantee you will not see an ad again, but it does make it less likely you’ll see ads like it.
The more feedback you provide, the more we’ll be able to personalize the selection of ads we show you in the future.
If there’s anything else I can address for you, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Is that why you cannot turn off Coors Light commercials via Ad Tailor? I have clicked on No – this ad is not relevant at least 20 times and still get 4 or more each hour show.
[...] Social is About to Get a Lot More Media On My Mind Add comments Jul 102011 Social is About to Get a Lot More MediaAmidst all the talks of new services and offerings by Google and Facebook, one that I've heard mentioned is the fate of streaming video service Hulu. I think a closer look at what's going on over at Hulu gives a pretty good idea of where they might be headed.There has been speculation that Google was looking to purchase Hulu, but I'm inclined to think otherwise after a recent visit to their site.Since July 1st, there has been a strong emphasis on Hulu's new Facebook Connect integration, going so far as to offer +1 month (see how I did that?) Hulu Plus subscription rather than the usual free week for initial sign-up. When I visited the individual mini-site within Hulu for my current favorite t.v. show (Doc Martin), I got some sort of pop-up lauding the integration. After a little research, I discovered this little nugget in the Hulu Blog article from July 1st linked to this postThe entire social experience on Hulu is being supported by our partners at Coors Light and Microsoft’s decision engine Bing. Bing is also providing a free 1-month Hulu Plus subscription to users who make the decision to “go social” by signing up for Facebook on Hulu.So, with the strong promotion of the Facebook Connect integration and Zuckerberg's promise of many third-party feature launches over the summer (we've now seen Skype and there's buzz about Spotify, Civilization, Netflix, and other big names hopping over the wall into the Facebook garden); could this be a sign that Hulu is more likely to step into the FB garden than be assimilated by the Goog? Watch for more as the following months seem to hold the promise of much social shuffling and heavy corporate dealing on the technology and media table. TV Just Got A Whole Lot More Social « Hulu Blog [...]
HUlu stinks. Not only do they have advertising they now have to charge us. I am contacting all the advertisers and expressing my displeasure this big hulu mistake. In fact i will not buy anything from any of these advertisers and will encourage others to do the same. I am canceling my verizon account in the A.M. Hulu is just to greedy. They need money from me and the advertiser?
I’ve tried 3 diff browsers and the Connect button is simply missing in every instance, from the popup to the Labs page, etc. Is there something wrong with the rollout?
My goodness there are a lot of bugs. Please fix them. If I could get the videos wot work like what you’re displaying here I would be pretty happy. However, I have found only ONE video which posted to my Facebook account like your example of The Office as shown above.
It worked for me with the pilot episode of **Suits** but it would not work as shown here with any other video.
I just used Facebook connect, but it connected me to someone else’s Hulu account. Not sure if this is a glitch, or a system wide problem. However, this should be addressed immediately due to privacy concerns. I also sent an email to your technical support concerning this.
June 13th, 2011 by John FosterHead of Talent and Organization
Whenever I wear my official Hulu jacket, people stop me to ask, “What’s it like to work at Hulu?” And I usually smile and think, “Dude, you have no idea!” And then I say something like, “Imagine being on a rocket-powered roller coaster with lots of surprise tunnels and unexpected turns.” It’s hard to convey the electric vibe of being on a team that is building a revolutionary service in a transforming industry, full of worthy competitors and complex partnerships. It’s like working in the future, when it’s not actually here yet. There is no flat or normal. It’s rapid-fire building. It’s spurts of anticipation. It’s bursts of speed that make your stomach jump in your throat. And for me, it’s an awesome job.
In just over three years, Hulu has become a hotbed of innovation from a business and technical perspective. So it makes sense that job candidates and press alike are increasingly interested in how we do stuff inside Hulu. Recently, Fast Company detailed our company culture, “Best Jobs Ever” profiled us, and Seattle Met Magazine did a writeup on our new Seattle development office as part of their 2011 “Best Places to Work … and Play” issue. And on top of all of that, WorldBlu has certified Hulu as a “democratic workplace.” Through all of this coverage, we’ve started to clarify a few things about what we are doing, and since we get asked about our culture and approach to management so often, I thought it would be good to put it out there for anyone who is curious about Hulu “behind the scenes.”
What type of people work at Hulu?
We are builders, entrepreneurs, and innovators, driven to surprise and delight our customers with a premium quality entertainment experience. We believe that who we hire is the single most important decision we make on a continual basis, so when looking for new “Hulugans,” we view candidates through two lenses:
1. We hire for values. As detailed in “What Defines Hulu,” our values are real and ever-present. We look for people who obsess over quality and customer service. They trade stories of greatness in these areas like some people discuss sports. And, we look for people who have a relentless desire for finding better ways of doing whatever it is they do.
2. We hire extraordinary people. We look for people who have developed and demonstrated an extraordinary ability that is of value to our team. Every team member shares a deeply held belief that his or her individual efforts are not sufficient to accomplish our mission. From this extraordinary ability and sincere belief, Hulugans are humble and collaborative by nature, in the face of our audacious goals.
As we grow to meet the challenges ahead, we need the best and brightest talent on the Internet. Every Hulugan is expected to apply his or her unique skills to build something that makes it easier for people to find, enjoy and share the world’s premium content. Hulu has a small team of people who have excelled in a diverse array of both startup and corporate environments to give us speed, strength, and agility in our mission. Check out the video we created to capture the spirit of working at Hulu:
How do we get work done?
There are several patterns in how we work that are critical to our success so far:
- Teams solve difficult problems better than individuals. We believe in small teams and big ideas, and that familiarity breeds innovation. Our teams are not just a format for working together, they are the best way to manage the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent in our business.
- Freedom to build. We maintain an open and creative environment at the office — it’s energetic, fun, and a little bit chaotic. And very productive. Everyone has the freedom to provide input into what work we do and how we do it. We depend on the great judgment, healthy debate, and entrepreneurial work ethic of our people to keep our work sensible, prioritized, and on track.
- Interesting work leads to growth. People do their best work when it’s interesting and challenging; and this naturally results in personal and professional growth. Hulugans appreciate the chance to employ and hone multiple skill sets and are encouraged to tackle new things that help both Hulu and each other grow.
- Reward great work with bigger challenges. Every Hulugan has the opportunity to take ownership of a project and make it bigger and better. This is what meritocracy looks like in action: do well, keep going, earn credibility, get more responsibility.
- We are part of something bigger. We believe in giving back. We fully support and are a vibrant part of the larger community. Our developers work on many open source projects and have built much of our infrastructure using open tech stacks. We strive to make improvements in the communities where we live through individual and group philanthropy projects.
What is the work environment like?
We’ve constructed a workplace that supports a balance between three work modes: heads down focus, active collaboration, and serendipitous interaction. This means nobody gets an office to hide in, but we have lots of private conference rooms for spirited debate and creative whiteboarding. We have generous amounts of open communal space where Hulugans break out, relax, and play around, because we know that creative minds are more effective when they have regular distractions. Our kitchen is in the center of everything to encourage regular visits and spur connection.* When you enter our office, the first thing you notice is a wall of portraits with every team member showing off a bit of his or her personality. From this gigantic photo wall, even a casual visitor will quickly notice that our people are our most precious asset.
What benefits does Hulu provide?
Everyone who works for Hulu owns a part of the company. Thus, our benefits reflect an “ownership” culture, which means that we treat each other as high-judgment owners who can make decisions as owners. Here’s a couple of examples:
- “Be Well:” Everyone on our team may expense up to $600 per year on “being well.” This means different things to different people. If training for a marathon helps one person be well, but signing up for a yoga class helps another person be well, then they each can expense up to $600 annually on that activity.
- “Take the time off you need to perform at your best:” As a start-up, our team works really hard. And within our ownership culture, it is strange to dictate how many days someone can take for vacation or a personal day. Rather than have no time off policy, our team told us they need a target to aim for so they don’t feel bad leaving their team behind. So we set our policy to a minimum of 32 paid days off, and team members may take additional time as needed by discussing with their manager.
We strive to do anything and everything to make Hulu a place where builders come to build great things. This is a standard measured by the builders themselves, who are passionate and relentless in their desire to always make things better. And that is what we mean when we say we have an “ownership” culture. We are our own best critics and as a team we are all improving Hulu together.
If you liked what you just read, and are interested in joining us, please check out our jobs page.
* We have done extensive research to determine that Hulugans are strongly attracted to free food.
For help with anything, always go to http://hulu.com/support . I’ve looked into your account and it’s in good standing, have you tried clearing your browser cache? This usually helps with that particular program.
Why does it only show 90 sec. clips, I paid, you have my credit card info, and when you ask for an update, I did that. It played the shows for about 3 hrs. and now its back for 90 sec. Where can I go for help on this???? it is very frustrating.
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Hulu seems to have its priorities straight in its company culture. I think it would be a great place to work and grow as a professional and as a human.
I have to say that Hulu sounds like an amazing place to work. I’ve just applied for a position and really hope that I can one day join the ranks of the “Hulugans”.
You know, it’s really nice to see that the experience behind my monitor is as good as mine is in front of it.
I am more and more impressed with Hulu as a company and this post makes me even more pleased to be a user. I keep finding wonderful shows and movies on this site and reading this makes me even happier to tell everyone I know to “watch it on Hulu!”
Good luck with the recruiting and to the candidates!
Since we released the Hulu Plus™ subscription service as a preview in July, the Hulu team has been hard at work extending the device footprint, refining existing applications, and adding to the content lineup, all while listening to feedback from our users, content partners, and advertisers.
I am happy to announce that today we are launching the Hulu Plus subscription service out of preview. With this launch, we are proud to offer our users the only subscription service with the full current season of hit TV shows like Glee, Modern Family, The Office, House, 30 Rock, Grey’s Anatomy, and more, with minimal ad-load, across computers, TVs, mobile phones, and tablets.
We’ve always been committed to providing our users the best value possible in all of our offerings, and we’re excited to announce several milestones in that goal for Hulu Plus.
First, the monthly price for Hulu Plus moving forward is just $7.99. Any current subscribers who joined during our preview period will receive a credit for the difference from the $9.99 preview price. This credit will automatically be applied to their next billing cycle.
Hulu Plus is now available on devices that have an installed base of over 50 million. Today, Hulu Plus launches on Roku. All PlayStation 3 owners with a PlayStation Network account, which is free, can download the Hulu Plus application. In the months to come, Hulu Plus will be coming to Internet-connected Vizio, LG Electronics, and Panasonic Blu-ray players and HDTVs; TiVo Premiere DVRs; the Xbox 360; and Western Digital’s WD TV Live Hub Media Center and WD TV Live Plus Network Media Player, with many more mobile phones, tablets, set-top boxes, and Internet-connected devices to be announced.
We haven’t forgotten about our existing device lineup and applications, either. Over the next week, updates to the Samsung, PlayStation 3, and Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Hulu Plus apps will be available, bringing a variety of bug fixes and feature and performance enhancements.
Now that the fall TV season is underway, Hulu Plus is the only subscription service to offer every episode of new shows from ABC, Fox, and NBC, including Raising Hope, No Ordinary Family, and The Event, in addition to established favorites like House, Glee, and Modern Family. We’ve also added back seasons of hit shows including Monk, Psych, and Battlestar Galactica, and by year-end, the lineup will include every episode from all 36 seasons of Saturday Night Live.
We realize that for many users, Hulu Plus represents a markedly new way to keep up with their favorite TV shows. To make it as easy and risk-free as possible for users to try out this service, we’re pleased to share the following special offers:
• One free week trials for all new subscribers. In addition, current subscribers who joined during the preview period will receive a credit for one week of Hulu Plus toward their next month’s subscription.
• Two free weeks of Hulu Plus for both current subscribers and friends they invite through our referral program. Subscribers can learn more by clicking on the “Referrals” tab on their Hulu profile page.
• 11 weeks ($20 worth) of free Hulu Plus with the purchase of a Sony BRAVIA connected TV or Blu-ray player through January 31, 2011. (See sony.com/huluplus.)
• One free month of Hulu Plus with the purchase of a Roku device through December 15, 2010. (See roku.com/hulu.)
We’re highly encouraged by the response we’ve received to the Hulu Plus service during the preview period. Though the service has only been in preview for part of this year, Hulu Plus is already accounting for a material percentage of Hulu’s overall business. But we’re even more excited about where we plan to take the service in the months and years to come. This is just one more step in the journey to reinvent TV. We hope you’ll join us.
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[...] friends, and paid for the lifetime subscriptions – I just don’t matter to them. Today Hulu announced that they’re taking the wraps off their service and at a lower than expected price. What I [...]
It’s really a shame that your Hulu Plus channel lineup is completely abysmal compared to what you are offering for free. It would have been nice to see Hulu Plus contain everything Hulu already offers for free (or at least a larger portion of it) as well as the new content and devices.
The fact that I’m paying money for the privilege of not being able to view content over my Roku that I could easily view for free if I just run my computer’s HDMI output to the TV really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. What exactly are we paying for?
[...] to a blog posting by Hulu CEO Jason Kilar: Hulu Plus is now available on devices that have an installed base of over 50 million. Today, Hulu [...]
I always welcome new companies that try to bring me content in new and convenient ways, astonished that my daughter was watching a movie on a mobile phone streamed over the Cell Tower while we were waiting for our food. AMAZING!!
However, I am very disappointed that I am paying for commercials even though I have a subscription. Your big red competitor Netflix does not employ this tactic, and I get to watch movies, tv shows released on dvd, and MANY MORE with hardly any commercial, lag, or bugs.
Sure Hulu may be offering current content, so I don’t have to wait for the DVD release on Netflix, however being dinged twice is a down right dirty shame.
Being charged a monthly subscription and having to sit through as you put it “Minimal Ads” is still too much, thank you but no thanks.
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One thing I noticed on Roku: The countdown message in the upper left corner during ads is mostly off the screen. Everything else fits on the screen, so I don’t think it’s a zoom/overscan issue.
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My #1 ask — Hulu Plus for Apple TV. I had a subscription for my iPad but cancelled because I’m not ‘mobile’ enough to really justify it. Was great while on an extended business trip. Having it available on Apple TV — I’d re-subscribe right away. The price drop also helps. More reasonable.
That’s nice and all, but the statement “…Hulu Plus is the only subscription service to offer every episode of new shows from ABC, Fox, and NBC…” is misleading and disingenuous.
There are many shows from each of those providers that aren’t available to Hulu Plus subscribers, but ARE available on Hulu Free (e.g. Fringe).
This is fantastic news. I’m so glad you guys have kept improving the service and are pricing it comparably to the Netflix streaming service.
However, I’m disappointed to see that there isn’t an ad-free version (maybe Hulu Premium?). The most appealing part of Hulu when it first launched was the limited number of advertisements. Now it seems that there are almost as many commercials as live broadcast television.
I’m 100% positive that Hulu users would overwhelmingly approve of a commercial-free version of Hulu Plus, even at a slightly higher monthly cost. I’d love to see you include this option in the future.
I’m not seeing anything in my queue but I have tons on the website acct. Also, content very limited. Not seeing many of my shows and channels? HGTV, PBS, Sesame St? Can you help? Thanks
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September 16th, 2010 by Richard TomVP, Platform Technology
Perhaps when you think of Seattle your taste buds prepare themselves for a freshly brewed espresso or a not-so-simple soy-decaf-single-shot-one-pump-vanilla-iced-latte. Or perhaps Seattle conjures images of the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital, where lives are saved and relationships flatline. Or maybe, if you’re like me, your thoughts rush to Cuban sandwiches at Paseo, the inspiring view at Gasworks Park, and the incredible engineering and startup communities that thrive in this rainy Emerald City.
As someone who called Seattle my home for nearly eight years, I’m truly excited to announce that Hulu will be opening a development center in Seattle by the end of the year.
While most people think of TV shows when they think of Hulu, at Hulu we pride ourselves in being a technology company first and foremost. Over the last year, we’ve scaled our service to handle over 30 million users and over 1 billion streams per month. We’ve architected a content distribution platform to store, transcode, and deliver petabytes of video on commodity hardware. We even managed to launch our own video ad server while building a subscription service that provides users with unfettered access to their favorite shows on PCs, TVs, gaming consoles, and mobile devices.
But despite all our progress to date, our toughest and most interesting technical challenges continue to lie ahead of us. The online video experience today is only a fraction of what we think it can and should be, and we’re looking for talented people who, like us, are inspired to invent the future.
We’ve always known that Hulu is defined by its people and its culture. We believe that the talented engineers of the Seattle area embody our philosophy, and we have firsthand knowledge to back that up: nearly 50 percent of our developers in Los Angeles were once Seattleites building enterprise database servers, operating systems and web frameworks.
Rest assured we will leave no coffee shop unchecked and no coffee bean unturned as we search for the brightest and best software developers out there. If you’re one of them and are interested in a new adventure, stop over at our job site or ping me at .
i am beyond thrilled to know my favorite website (get’s me through the work day!!!) will have a presence in my city! i would be more thrilled if you say you need an amazing interactive marketing genius like myself to join your team of developers!
Everyone on the Hulu team shares three things in common. I’ll cover two of those immediately. We’ll get to the last one at the end of this post.
First, we are proud to say that we love TV shows. TV shows entertain billions of people across the globe and are among the most durable, high quality forms of storytelling in our society. TV shows play a significant role in billions of people’s daily routines.
Second, we believe that the TV show experience — while already great — has the opportunity to be even better. We have great conviction that consumers should be able to watch the TV shows they’d like to watch, whenever they want to watch them, wherever they want to watch them. The Hulu team has taken that conviction and built a very special service we’re calling Hulu Plus. The Hulu Plus service is our answer to the question of “What if your favorite TV shows loved you back?”
Hulu Plus is not a replacement for Hulu.com. Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product that is incremental and complementary to the existing Hulu service. For almost all of the current broadcast shows on our service, Hulu Plus offers the full season. Every single episode of the current season will be available, not just a handful of trailing episodes. Now there’s never a bad time to jump in on a hot new show like Modern Family (which I recommend highly). From Family Guy to Glee, from The Office to 30 Rock, from Grey’s Anatomy to Desperate Housewives, from Parks & Recreation to Parenthood, from House to Saturday Night Live, and dozens of other hits, the best time to jump in on any series is any time, and with any episode, that’s right for you.
As a Hulu Plus subscriber, you’ll now also have access to back seasons or full runs of some of TV’s greatest shows. All nine seasons of The X-Files. All three seasons of Arrested Development. Ten seasons of Law and Order: SVU. All five seasons of Ally McBeal. Seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and three seasons of Roswell. Every episode ever of Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives. Classic skits from the first five and most recent five seasons of Saturday Night Live. The list goes on. This is all on top of hundreds of shows already on Hulu.com today. It’s a treasure chest in the cloud for TV lovers.
How can someone watch all these TV shows? The only possible way is if someone could pull up these shows wherever they were, on whatever device they happened to have available. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Hulu Plus subscribers can now watch their favorites through more than just the browser on their Mac or PC.
Let’s start in your living room. You’re sitting down for dinner, and you’d like to pull Hulu up on your TV. Today you’d have to plug a computer into the TV and try to connect the audio from your computer to your sound system. It’s certainly doable, but it’s not as easy as it could be. Starting today, Hulu Plus subscribers who own select Samsung Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players can download a Hulu Plus application from the Samsung app store and start streaming Hulu Plus directly.
Now let’s say you migrate from the living room to your den or bedroom or patio where you don’t have a TV. You can always pull up Hulu Plus on your laptop, but starting today you can access Hulu content via Wi-Fi or 3G on another device: the Apple iPad. I’ve been watching Hulu on my iPad for several weeks now, and I’ve watched more TV through the iPad than any other device.
Now let’s head out of the house and onto the road. Wouldn’t it be nice if, while you were waiting for your coffee order at the local cafe, you could finish watching that episode you started watching that morning on your iPad? Starting today, if you’re a Hulu Plus subscriber and you own an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 or third-generation iPod Touch, you can.
The Hulu Plus app on the iPhone streams over 3G and Wi-Fi. It’s TV shows in the palm of your hand. A spare five minutes will never be as boring again. You can start watching a show on your HDTV one night, pick up where you left off on your laptop at lunch, watch another chunk on the bus ride home on your iPhone, and finish watching in bed on your iPad. The time to watch your favorite shows is any time you want.
These are the devices shipping with Hulu Plus today. But this is just the first step in our mission to bring you TV wherever you are. We are already hard at work on porting Hulu Plus to other devices and platforms, with PlayStation 3 coming soon. But that’s a story for another day.
More content. More devices. But that’s not all. We want to take full advantage of beautiful display devices like your HDTV connected to your Samsung Blu-ray player, or your iPad. So for all Hulu Plus subscribers, we’ll now stream all native HD content in 720p high definition.
The last question, and an obvious one, is how much this costs. We wanted Hulu Plus to be priced for as many people as possible. We’re thrilled to be able to bring all of this to you for the price of just $9.99 a month.
How do you sign up for Hulu Plus? Starting today, we’re issuing invitations to become a Hulu Plus subscriber. If you’re interested, you can request an invitation here. To ensure we’re offering the best experience for all our Hulu Plus customers, we’ll be sending out invitations in waves [hint: if you follow Hulu on Twitter ( www.twitter.com/hulu) or “Like” Hulu on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/hulu), we’ll be handing out invites to a random set from each of those groups from time to time over the coming months]. We’ll be sending out as many invitations as we can each week, and as soon as we’re ready, we’ll remove the need for an invitation and start bringing in new subscribers without delay.
At the start, I mentioned I’d come back to the third thing that all of us at Hulu have in common. That third thing is this: we believe that any lasting solution to the challenge of making TV show discovery and viewing dramatically easier has to work for all three of our customers, and those are our end users, our advertisers, and our content suppliers.
With Hulu Plus, we believe we’ve met that goal. For our end users, we’re offering them the most convenient way to access their favorite shows, on devices they love, in high definition, at a fair price. For our advertisers, who allow us to keep our Hulu Plus price low with the support of ad revenue, we offer one of the world’s most effective advertising platforms, with the ability to speak effectively to users across a variety of devices, anywhere they happen to be. And finally, for our content partners, we offer revenues that compensate them fairly for bearing the cost of producing the shows we love.
Is our work done? Not even close. There are more shows to license, more countries to expand into, and more product features to build. And we will.
But for today, we just want to share our latest project with you. We think it’s pretty great. We hope you do, too.
You guys this will never work make it free and with advertisements it will work but nobody is going to subscribe to this for 10 a month when there is Netflix and their service includes better videos than just whats on tv.
Thanks for making TV watching easy again! With conflicting schedules, full DVRs my household has always had to pick and choose which TV shows we’re able to watch. My only questions are: 1) Is there going to be a wait between air date and availability to watch on Hulu.com to Plus members? For instance, some TV shows have a weeks wait after the air date before we’re able to watch as free Hulu members. Also, does that plus membership cover everyone in the house? Sure, we can all watch together on the TV but what about on our separate iPhones? Can two people, from separate iPhones, be connected to Hulu Plus at the same time?
Do you get to see the current episode right away or do you have still have to wait anywhere from a day to over a week before it is available? Everybody at the office is talking about the latest episode of Justified from the night before while I’m sitting at my desk with my fingers in my ears yelling, “LaLaLaLa” so as not to spoil it since it doesn’t air on Hulu until NINE DAYS LATER!
Also, it is great to hear about the iPhone and iPad applications though unfortunate that AT&T also announced their data caps which watching TV shows will certainly make you go over.
I really, really like Hulu. We don’t have a TV now because we like Boxee, Hulu, and Netflix. I was impressed when Hulu came out because it felt far more web savvy than TV demonstrated being before. I would say it’s good enough now that I would pay for access to more shows. But, I’m not happy to hear there will still be ads.
I didn’t grow up paying for ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. so, I relate to the ad supported content model. But this is double dipping and it isn’t very desirable.
I’d happily pay $10\month if you included content such as, Always Sunny in Philly. This is a great product and a very reasonable price, if it simply had more content. The current offering seems to target women and homosexuals. Please offer some shows for the guys.
I’ve been a big Hulu fan for a couple years, so I offer this as just one fan’s constructive feedback. Last week I switched back to purchasing Burn Notice from iTunes, because of the increased number of ads on Hulu and the recent 8 day delay on new episodes.
Is there any chance of a Hulu++ ? It’d cost more, but have fewer ads, and episodes would be available much sooner.
Why would anyone want to pay $10 bucks a month for the privilege of watching commercials? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have tiered pricing, with a tier that one could choose to pay for no commercials? The content is already paid for. In most cases many times over.
There is no point to this subscription, because the shows STILL have advertising in them. The only way I would pay $10/month to use Hulu is if I could get the shows ad-free. I will not pay for advertising; it is why I do not have cable. I prefer Hulu’s short ads to broadcast TV’s more advertising than shows, though lately Hulu is ramping advertising up. I guess soon I will be waiting for shows to come out on DVD.
This is a worthless subscription! The only way I would PAY to watch Hulu is if the shows were Ad-FREE. I do NOT want to pay to watch advertising just for the privilege of being able to get whole seasons at a time. Forget it.
How many individuals are allowed on one subscription? For example my wife and I both have an IPhone. Can we both use the same subscription, or do we both need our own subscription?
$9.99 a month to watch TV shows is too much. Why did you think that price was the sweet spot? And a subscription model? Should I cancel my cable TV and use HULU instead? I think that people are already paying too a month for all their other expenses. Honestly I don’t think it will be successful, as much as I was looking forward to watching a TV show now and then, I won’t be subscribing. I don’t see the value in it. The only way this will be successful is if it is ad supported and free to the public. Most of us tech savvy people already use netflix to stream content to our devices. Well good luck.
Hulu is great, as a free service I cannot complain at all. But if I were to start paying for it, I might find some grounds for complaint.
First of all, I’m willing to watch some ads if it keeps the price down, but I absolutely despise being forced to watch the same ad twice during one show. Network television has long subjected us to this, and that more than anything else annoys me on a visceral level. I can’t really even explain it but somehow I find it insulting. If you want your version of TV to love me please quit doing that.
Also, will you offer any kind of service availability guarantees? At somepoint a while back I was running into an issue where after choosing a show and pushing play, it would take 5 minutes or more for the show to start. Now that particular problem seems to be fixed, but how will you handle future issues? Say I’ve freed up an evening and I have it mind to watch some show, if for some reason your service isn’t working I’m actually going to be a little bit more than just $10 disappointed. I’d like a service availability guarantee that has some teeth to it, not just a $10 refund.
The “invitation” model worked well for Gmail/Google Voice, etc. because they are free products, I do not think that it’s going to work well for you.
The price point given your content (and including advertisements on top of it) is simply going to be a non-starter for a lot of people, including myself.
When are you going on Hulu Plus some old TV shows at ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ . I watch both old and new shows. I would not subscribe to Hulu Plus if the old shows were not there…
Your initial realease of Hulu Plus is a nice start, but I’m afraid that is falls miserably short. You’ve left off what I believe is a very imporant audience: those of us who do not and probably will not own any Apple mobile products. Specifically, the Android market.
Also, do you have plans to support oher internet-connected TV’s, i.e., Sony Internet Video devices, etc.?
The one feature I was really hoping for in a paid Hulu subscription isn’t listed here:
No more than a 24 hour delay on all new shows.
It’s pretty silly to consider paying for Hulu if I still have to dodge my coworkers talking about shows like The Biggest Loser for 7 days. 24 hours is reasonable, but a week is ridiculous. I know that decision is wrapped up in the hands of the content providers, but it’s one that will likely keep me from being a paid subscriber until it’s taken care of.
I am wondering what will happen to the selection of older TV shows currently available on Hulu as full seasons before today’s announcement. Will those remain free or will those go under Hulu Plus?
I really really hope you guys make this available for blackberry since not every one wants an iPhone (especially since the new one looses the signal when you hold it).
I notice that there are no non-Apple cell phones in the list of upcoming mobile devices that are supported with Hulu Plus. Are there any plans on the horizon for Plus support on other mobile devices? I don’t own an iPhone/Pod/Pad and mobile viewing is a good chunk of what Hulu Plus offers. An Android app would be great (no one would have to switch carriers to get Hulu Plus on a mobile).
Jason, you guys are going backwards. You have a great balanced service online but this announcement is just lame. I’m ok with paying for a service, for more content, but no way will i pay for something that technology enables for free as a subscription. If there are development costs associated to developing an app, i will pay for this, but only once. I will not pay to access content that is already streamed on the web for free over a different channel (for a privilege, are you kidding me). Shame on you for supporting these antiquated business models. You guys have to work hard to stop content from being shown on other channels than a browser, this is just silly. Please, release the standard content over as many channels as you can, I’ll then be happy to pay for a subscription for a premium service, but surely not for this.
You lost me at “ad-supported subscription product”. if a customer pays $120 per year there shouldn’t be ads. And 720p is not really high definition, it’s medium resolution.
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Sorry Hulu, seems like a rip off. For $2 less I get everything they’re talking about and more with my netflix subscription. You’d have to be pretty stupid to pay more money for less stuff. But, there are plenty of stupid people out there. *sigh*
“Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product…”
it is not ad-supported if i have to pay for it. it may be ad-suplimited but not ad-supported.
$9.99 per month is reasonable for HD, next day turn around, and ad-free content. Paying and still having to watch ads is not, no double dipping. This is part of what made people hate cable.
While I don’t expect this comment to be approved, I want you guys at Hulu to read it at least once. I spent a lot of time giving reviews on shows, making feedback selections on your advertisers, did all of the surveys that were ever released, and then had my favorite shows all reduced to 5 seasons only for my troubles. Now, if I fork out ten bucks a month, I can have all of the older seasons back. Streaming to my TV or portable player isn’t my cup of tea, I have no TV or Ipad or anything else. Just my disabled, unable to walk self and my home computer. Fine. Charge the 10 bucks I’m sure you’ll get a lot of people to pay. I won’t be doing so. And I’ll never write another review or make any more commercial feedbacks. In fact, I won’t be logging back in again. Thank you for the programming you used to do, but no thanks for the fee-mongering. 10 bucks a month? I am sure your advertisers could have covered it without blinking twice. What is peanuts to them is a lot to somebody like me. Bye.
For viewers who must have access to closed captions in order to enjoy programming, will there be full access to captions on all the devices used for Hulu Plus, including the iPod Touch? Will there be a publicized policy of providing closed captions for all the programs on Hulu Plus? (If not, deaf and hard of hearing customers won’t get full value out of Hulu Plus.)
This is an excellent start at a decent price, though I’m not ready to subscribe just yet. Still too many things missing to make it worthwhile. I know y’all are working on more so here’s my hit list of things that would make it more compelling:
Places:
* Wii console version – There’s a lot of us out there that don’t have X-Boxen and PS3s
* Android – … and we’re not all Apple fanboys either (though I do have a MacBook)
* Google TV – Yeah, I know it’s not out yet but if you’re gonna go the Android route, this seems to just make sense.
Stuff:
* Daily Show/Colbert – I hope the extra revenue will help you strike a deal with Viacom (those greedy bastiches!)
* Conan O’Brien v3.0 – Not seen an announcement on whether this is on your queue, but I miss that crimson quaffed freak. Be nice to see other Turner properties here too.
Again, good stuff! Looking forward to how this develops.
The question that comes to mind is, what about multi-device households. Let’s say I want to watch a Hulu Plus show on my iPad/iPhone, and my wife wants to watch a show on the 360 or PC. Is this one account or two? Other than that, this is something I’ve been looking forward to with great anticipation!
So, if I understand correctly: I would have to pay to watch ad supported shows. If you made it so I would not see ads I would consider it. You are so close, yet so far.
Awesome, the only platform you seem to have not mentioned is Android. I really hope you guys are working hard on getting Hulu onto the Android Market, what could be more glorious than Hulu on those massive screens of the Evo and Droid X??
Jason – does this mean that episodes such as GLEE, that are currently available on hulu.com’s online free service (with expiration dates) will NO LONGER be available AT ALL since the current season pass would be available on Hulu Plus? Or, does this mean that GLEE will continue to be available for X-number of episodes at a time (with expiration dates) *AND* that those who have Hulu Plus would NOT be subject to the expiration date while having access to the season in full (instead of 5 episodes at a time/etc). Am I understanding this right? (Broken down, I want to know if I have to have Hulu Plus to watch the current season of GLEE online?)
I think the only thing that is revolutionary about Hulu Plus is that you are charging a subscription fee while still showing ads on the internet. I’m okay with that on my TV, but not on the internet, and I’m betting most people feel the same way. Pay walls never work, period. Normally you charge a subscription fee to remove the ads, but instead your charging and seeing having ads. I understand that it probably isn’t Hulu’s fault, but I’m betting this never takes off, as soon as people realize they still have to sit through ads. Just my two cents.
Call me when you have android and/or boxee support. I’ll sign up the same day :). You do reallize there are more android phones out there than iphones right?
Fail. Right idea, very wrong price. If it’s ad-supported, why $10 per month? I’d pay maybe $4 or $5 per month to suffer through ads mainly for the convenience of being able to watch hulu from my iPad, but $10 per month is way too steep.
Why would ANYONE want to pay a monthly fee for Hulu when tversity lets you stream Hulu to your XBox or other system already? And for only a one time fee mind you.
“Every single episode of the current season will be available, not just a handful of trailing episodes.”
When will episodes hit the Hulu servers? For example, if I live on the east coast and House begins at 9:00 eastern, when does the episode become available to me on my iPhone/Xbox/computer if I’m a Hulu Plus subscriber?
So I pay every month AND still have to watch the commercials?
NO.
I like the new features of Hulu Plus. I like the mobile devices. I like the full seasons. I like the full series options. I’d gladly pay $9.99 a month, even $19.99 a month would be a pretty good deal.
But I refuse to pay someone to show me ads. I won’t do it for cable TV, or magazines, or newspapers. And I’m certainly not going to do it for Hulu Plus.
This is great but will the shows on Hulu Plus have closed captions like the ones on Hulu.com do? I’m asking specifically for the iPad, iPhone, PS3 applications, etc.
Overall this is awesome, and I’ve very excited to be able to (eventually) see HD Hulu content on my PS3! I’m a bit disappointed to hear this *paid service” will be ad-supported though. I feel that if I pay for a service, I shouldn’t be subjected to third party advertising through it. This is a real opportunity to shine and stand way above the cable companies.
Will you be able to offer shows from Travel Channel or Food Network? Or Bravo? LIke Top Chef, Chopped, or Man vs. Food? If so, I’ll buy this, if not, I’ll pass.
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Its such as you read my thoughts! You seem to understand a lot about this, such as you wrote the book in it or something. I feel that you can do with some p.c. to force the message home a little bit, but instead of that, that is excellent blog. An excellent read. I will certainly be back.
Interesting blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A design like yours with a few simple tweeks would really make my blog shine.
Please let me know where you got your design.
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Hi Blaire,
I’m sorry for the trouble! I’d be happy to help out, but we may be better equipped to do so via ( http://www.hulu.com/support ). Let us know there and we’ll get this all squared away.
Best,
Hulu Support
For some reason the email associated with my facebook connected account is a weird @proxymail.hulu.com and it won’t let me reset my password. I can’t figure out what my password is and I want to look at my account information. Help!
He Jeri,
Can you tell me the device you’re using? If it’s a computer, just go directly to http://www.hulu.com. If it’s any other device, a Hulu Plus subscription will be required, which is my you might be seeing that screen. If you need more in-depth assistance, please contact us at http://www.hulu.com/support.
Thanks!
Michael B.
Hulu Support
Why can’ t I access hulu.com without the page for huluplus popping up?
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I used to love Hulu.. even if I had to wait a month for one of my shows… it was still worth it.. I am a senior and on a fixed income and only have basic tv.. (all I can afford) so counted on HULU to watch my shows.. now you want me to purchase Hulu Plus to watch my shows.. so I will quit HULU all together as I can not afford another bill… way to go.. make it harder for those of us who counted on you..
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Hello Hulu employees,
My name is Tyler Holbrook and I have to go on record by saying that you are not fully utilizing your ad potential. I am a businessman with a degree in business administration and a degree in psychology, put those together and you have a marketer extraordinaire. I feel that this service has the ability to be one of the leading marketers and has the ability to charge top dollar for their ad space, close to the price of a Super Bowl commercial. You collect demographics from your Hulu Plus subscribers when they register for an account. However you do not require all viewers to register to view content, I feel that you should make registration a requirement. This allows you to collect demographic information to cross analyze and create genuine add tailoring. These demographics are priceless! You can then cross analyze your demographics with the content viewed by those individuals. You can provide information to the companies that purchase ad space though you. Here is an example, take Geico into consideration (a company who currently advertises with you). After you collect all your information you tell the sales people at Geico that most males who watch Family Guy are more likely to say they relate to your commercial (by participating in the Ad Tailor). Then if they choose to continue to advertise on the Family Guy channel, you can charge them more than if they were going to advertise on One Tree Hill. This further assists you by providing additional demographics to companies like Geico by cross selling the ad space on American Dad, which is a similar show to Family Guy. You could even create a database that indicates how many of those Family Guy viewers also watch American Dad, thus providing Geico with another way to reach their customers.
To be honest I don’t know how you create contracts with your advertisers, if you sell a particular amount of spots, or if you specifically state a channel and a number of slots available. I feel that you should take a more psychological approach to things. Most men will sit through a whole episode, however most women will either get bored or allow their minds to wonder and leave or tune out towards the end of an episode. This is why you should place commercials which are more targeted at men towards the end of a program.
I feel that your Ad Tailor also needs some work. I noticed that if I state I relate to a commercial, then that commercial will come on again during the next commercial break. However, it will ask me once again if I relate to that commercial. Why do I need to do that again? I am logged in, my profile should have recorded that information and not asked me to answer that question again. I also notice that if I state I do not relate to a particular advertisement then it will not come on again during that show, but if I am to watch another show (even the same program, just a different episode) the advertisement will come on again, and again I am asked if I relate to it. My profile should be recording this and storing it into a database to truly offer ad tailoring and customization to not only benefit your viewers, but also your investors, and ad space customers.
If you wish to discuss this further please feel free to contact me at tyler.holbrook@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration.
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I’ve clicked “No” on “is this ad relevant to you” on the Geico commercials hundreds of times. I will never and I mean never purchase their shitty products and yet you continue to ram their stupid childish advertising down my throat. Hulu advertising is about as personalised as a q-tip.
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for writing. The intention of Ad Tailor is to increase the relevance of the ads you see on hulu.com.
Ad Tailor works by offering you the option of giving us feedback on every video ad’s relevance to you. When viewing an ad, you will notice the question “Is this ad relevant to you?” and a “yes” and “no” button. While we are interested in your opinion of the ad creative, what’s more critical for us is whether the product or service is relevant to you. We can’t change our advertisers’ creative, but we’ll try to use your feedback to adjust the ads you see in the future, when possible. Unfortunately, clicking “no” doesn’t guarantee you will not see an ad again, but it does make it less likely you’ll see ads like it.
The more feedback you provide, the more we’ll be able to personalize the selection of ads we show you in the future.
If there’s anything else I can address for you, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Happy viewing!
James
Hulu Support
Is that why you cannot turn off Coors Light commercials via Ad Tailor? I have clicked on No – this ad is not relevant at least 20 times and still get 4 or more each hour show.
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HUlu stinks. Not only do they have advertising they now have to charge us. I am contacting all the advertisers and expressing my displeasure this big hulu mistake. In fact i will not buy anything from any of these advertisers and will encourage others to do the same. I am canceling my verizon account in the A.M. Hulu is just to greedy. They need money from me and the advertiser?
what happened to the daily show and colbert report this week?
And yet this blog post has buttons to share with Twitter, Digg, and Reddit . . . but not Facebook.
I’ve tried 3 diff browsers and the Connect button is simply missing in every instance, from the popup to the Labs page, etc. Is there something wrong with the rollout?
My goodness there are a lot of bugs. Please fix them. If I could get the videos wot work like what you’re displaying here I would be pretty happy. However, I have found only ONE video which posted to my Facebook account like your example of The Office as shown above.
It worked for me with the pilot episode of **Suits** but it would not work as shown here with any other video.
I just used Facebook connect, but it connected me to someone else’s Hulu account. Not sure if this is a glitch, or a system wide problem. However, this should be addressed immediately due to privacy concerns. I also sent an email to your technical support concerning this.