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Major Labels Going to Hulu in Search of Greener Pastures?

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It’s beginning to look an awful lot like major music labels, that are fed up with poor ad revenues from Google’s YouTube, are going to look to Hulu in search of bigger and better opportunities.

The four major labels, Universal MG, EMI, Warner and Sony BMG are reportedly in talks to port their content to a new site. These talks initially involved the idea of their own web site, but instead they’re not looking to creating a non-exclusive partnership with a preexisting media outlet, such as Hulu.

According to the Financial Times’ Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, “Plans under discussion include: a partnership with Hulu, the online television and film joint venture between News Corp and NBC Universal; the creation of a premium service on YouTube, Google’s video sharing site; or, a standalone venture between some or all of the four largest recorded music groups.”

 

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avatarHulu FTW

Hulu really seems to being doing things right. Watch on demand, limited commercial interruptions, and a count down when the commercial do interrupt, all awesome. It's actually easier to watch something on hulu than to try and pirate it. It's easier than if you even own the actual dvd! Win for the viewer, win for the content owners and win for the advertisers.

  I've given up on youtube. Putting ads OVER the video WHILE I'm trying to watch it, seriously? Ads to download your stupid browser while I watch TF2 videos? WTF? Who thought that would be a good idea?

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