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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Just curious, how many streaming subscriptions do you have? |
0:09.8 | So I just cancelled one, so I probably subscribe to about five right now. |
0:18.9 | Our colleague Jessica Tungle covers streaming companies, including Hulu. |
0:23.9 | If you don't have cable but you want to watch shows the next day, Hulu is a great place |
0:28.1 | to go for a lot of that content. Abid Elementary, one of my favorites is on there. |
0:33.7 | Please do not forget everything that I taught you. Do forget everything she taught you. |
0:39.0 | Toss it right out at a window. Modern family, which is old, but I love it still, is on there. |
0:44.6 | It's Gloria right? Should I try slim cut jeans? So I think a lot of people use it for that. |
0:52.4 | And then they've really started getting traction, I would say, with their own original programming. |
0:57.4 | Handmaid's Tale has been a huge hit, murders in the building, another huge hit. |
1:03.0 | Let's see, what the hell? Found someone dead. |
1:06.0 | What? Sounds like they off themselves. You're kidding. |
1:15.4 | These days, Hulu is one of the bigger players in streaming. |
1:19.0 | It has about 48 million subscribers, less than a quarter of what Netflix has, |
1:23.4 | but it's still respectable. |
1:25.2 | I do think that it's found its niche, and I feel like it found its groove after a long time |
1:31.4 | of having struggling, I would say. |
1:33.8 | That long period of struggling had a lot to do with conflicts between the big media companies |
1:38.6 | that own Hulu. Currently, that's Disney and Comcast. They've had a number of pitched battles |
1:43.7 | over the years. Just when things would settle down, something new would crop up. |
1:48.3 | And now they're fighting again. But this time, the battle is bigger than before. |
1:53.8 | At stake is full ownership of Hulu. |
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