{"id":502898,"date":"2010-04-01T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004009"},"modified":"2010-04-01T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:03:24","slug":"hulu-is-profitable-may-add-subscription-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/502898","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Is Profitable, May Add Subscription Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/hulu-thumb-108x36-38832.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Good news for people who love watching TV on computers (me, admittedly), Hulu is profitable, and according to a NYT Interview with Jason Kilar, Hulu&#8217;s chief executive, revenue topped $100 million in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>As far as subscription services, there is pressure from the content providers to start one. It all hinges on the iPad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Our mission is to help people discover the world&#8217;s premium content, and we believe that subscriptions can help to unlock some of that, including sports and movies and premium cable shows,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re certainly open to subscriptions as a complement to an ad-supported model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People briefed on Hulu&#8217;s plan believe it may test the subscription approach with its iPad app. They could not say when such an application might be available.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kilar declined to talk about any future Hulu products, but he waxed enthusiastic about the coming wave of ultra-portable tablet computers like the iPad. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Would you ever pay for Hulu? <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2992568.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2992568\/\">Would You Pay For Hulu?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/01\/technology\/01hulu.html?ref=technology\" >Successes (and Some Growing Pains) at Hulu<\/a> [NYT]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for people who love watching TV on computers (me, admittedly), Hulu is profitable, and according to a NYT Interview with Jason Kilar, Hulu&#8217;s chief executive, revenue topped $100 million in 2009. As far as subscription services, there is pressure from the content providers to start one. It all hinges on the iPad: &#8220;Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}