Hulu, the United States' long-time second most popular streaming video site saw its viewership nosedive for the month ended June 30th, after comScore changed their measurement methods.
In May, the site had an estimated 44 million viewers, says comScore, with that number falling to 24 million in June.
The giant drop was the largest of any of the top Internet video sites, dropping the ... [ read the full article ]
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Yup...when you can get to the video page, just to get a message that it is not supported on your device just because they are being ***holes, that counts as a view. At this point, I don't even care if they remove their android blocking, I will never go back to those pricks ever again.
lets not ignore the 800 pound gorilla standing in the room:
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE PAID CONTENT!
people are bailing on hulu because they put commercials in the programs even after you become a member!
they seem to be using the cable tv model of doing business;
you buy access, then watch tv with commercials included.
but this is the internet!
not television.
i simply REFUSE to go down that road.
hulu is o-k for free to watch old night gallery shows,
but when i heard that paid members STILL get commercials in the programming ...well that just sucks balls!
hulu can suck it. there i said it.
and so many others share my sentiments...
NETFLIX FTW !! SDMF \\nn//
Meh, I blocked the ads with Peerblock. Now I simply wait 30 seconds for my video to resume :S But I just finished "Kyle Xy", so I don't know yet if there's a reason for me to have hulu stream me videos again. Probably would have watched them on netflix, but unfortunately netflix is not currently streaming Kyle xy...
Kyle Xy is incredible! ;)
Originally posted by Slippster: lets not ignore the 800 pound gorilla standing in the room:
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE PAID CONTENT!
people are bailing on hulu because they put commercials in the programs even after you become a member!
they seem to be using the cable tv model of doing business;
you buy access, then watch tv with commercials included.
but this is the internet!
not television.
i simply REFUSE to go down that road.
hulu is o-k for free to watch old night gallery shows,
but when i heard that paid members STILL get commercials in the programming ...well that just sucks balls!
hulu can suck it. there i said it.
and so many others share my sentiments...
NETFLIX FTW !! SDMF \\nn//
Originally posted by Zealousi: who uses it anyway, people have private media servers these days
Yes, I do. Unfortunately, if you want a broadband connection with a decent upload speed for video streaming, you have to pay through the nose for it. My $35/Mo AT&T DSL is ~3.5Mbps download and a whopping 50Kbps upload (measured).
Since people in the US don't consider it important to upgrade bandwidth, the best net speed in my neighborhood is too slow to view streaming video. Embarq/Centurylink hasn't upgraded my 512k DSL service in 8 years...I don't see it getting better any time soon.
I don't make this comment as a complaint really, just stating a fact that many areas who would LIKE to use services like Hulu and Netflix cannot.
