Hulu

In today's culture, the online streaming of movies and television series has become extremely prevalent. It is incredibly difficult to imagine a world in which we could not find a program we wanted to watch with the click of a mouse. One of the most influential components of our modern media is Hulu.com.

Hulu.com is an interactive website that provides movies, TV shows, classic clips and other types of video content for free. You can also upgrade to Hulu Plus, a monthly subscription service designed to provide even more content. The free version of this service is incredibly similar to Youtube. Its business model centers around "giving away" forms of entertainment to the public. With this knowledge, it is fair to ask exactly how Hulu generates its revenue.

Hulu is able to make money through its brilliant advertising techniques. The website promotes itself at various points during its videos in a way that most viewers find to be un-obtrusive. This severely contrasts with Youtube's advertising method, which hits viewers over the head with ads before nearly every single video that can be viewed.

Like most other successful companies today, Hulu has also developed a Facebook page to allow its website to gain greater publicity. Hulu's page also provides viewers with clips of classic moments in film/television and arranges its content by what is currently relevant in society. For example, the page listed a video called "best Super Bowl commercials" the day after this year's Super Bowl.

Hulu receives its video content from hundreds of major providers. These include major networks such as NBC, FOX, ABC, Nickelodeon, etc. In fact, CBS is the only major network that has not provided its content to Hulu, as it has its own site, TV.com.

In all, Hulu is a tremendously successful Internet business. Allowing people to view movies/programs for free has led to an accumulation of over 27.2 million users of the website. In today's media-oriented society, Hulu stands tall as one of the true pillars of entertainment viewing.

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To see Hulu for yourself, check out the website. You can also visit their Facebook page here.
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