Yahoo submits bid for Hulu

Post by pvnick » Fri, May 24, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

nolok wrote: post #8

bernardom wrote: post #6

Holy cow. This is a big deal . There is no reason why TV networks need to exist the way they do. Hulu, Netflix and Amazon all produce original content and are perfectly positioned to disrupt them as their distribution volume increases. Even the current distribution channel is being disrupted by Aereo. Hulu is a a huge asset. If Yahoo gets in this game, they have a massive number of users, photos (flickr), blogposts (…

They tried to buy a majority share from dailymotion from Orange a couple of weeks ago, but it was blocked by the french governement (a big shareholder in Orange). Yahoo really wants a video service. I guess they want to come back to having a modern set of active services.

Post by mark_l_watson » Fri, May 24, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 24, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #23

I don't really understand how this would work because I thought the secret sauce of Hulu was that the networks owned Hulu, so they allowed their content to be on Hulu. If Yahoo buys Hulu, do they still get the network content?

Post by smegel » Fri, May 24, 2013, 8:59 PM UTC

benwerd wrote: post #18

smegel wrote: post #15

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Think how google has sprinkled G+ across all their properties - I'm guessing Yahoo's next big announcement will be some kind of social layer bringing it all together. I would be most surprised if Yahoo did not already have 1000 monkeys coding away on some secret black ops social product that will launch in some form before the end of the year.

They've already said it: they want their homepage to be all about you. Think about what that means in this wider context, where they operate as an alternative way to discover content across all kinds of different verticals. They want to take over the space currently occupied by traditional media. For better or for worse, they're the most "human" of Silicon Valley's big web companies, and I think they might actually s…

Post by vivin » Fri, May 24, 2013, 9:13 PM UTC

criley wrote: post #26

bernardom wrote: post #6

Holy cow. This is a big deal . There is no reason why TV networks need to exist the way they do. Hulu, Netflix and Amazon all produce original content and are perfectly positioned to disrupt them as their distribution volume increases. Even the current distribution channel is being disrupted by Aereo. Hulu is a a huge asset. If Yahoo gets in this game, they have a massive number of users, photos (flickr), blogposts (…

> Hulu, Netflix and Amazon all produce original content and are perfectly positioned to disrupt them as their distribution volume increases. Uhh, as a Hulu subscriber, I'll just let you know: If I only had "Hulu" content to pick from, I'd cancel my subscription immediately. It's not great stuff, barely worth paying for and CERTAINLY not worth both paying for and sitting through the same 4 advertisements over-and-over…