New Hulu subscription service
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I was reading a few of the announcements this morning, and there was a line from the Hulu blog post[^] that caught my eye. "Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product..." If that's true and not just someone typing in their blog before morning coffee, I'd certainly call it revolutionary. Traditionally, for business models actually intent on making money, you gave consumers free access in exchange for making them endure ads, your source of revenue. Alternatively, as when cable became a big thing back in ancient times, you could pay for a subscription as a way of getting commercial free viewing. A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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I was reading a few of the announcements this morning, and there was a line from the Hulu blog post[^] that caught my eye. "Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product..." If that's true and not just someone typing in their blog before morning coffee, I'd certainly call it revolutionary. Traditionally, for business models actually intent on making money, you gave consumers free access in exchange for making them endure ads, your source of revenue. Alternatively, as when cable became a big thing back in ancient times, you could pay for a subscription as a way of getting commercial free viewing. A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesEh, just right a streamer and stream the feed straight from hulu, bypass flash, and save to your HD for later ff and add removal.
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I was reading a few of the announcements this morning, and there was a line from the Hulu blog post[^] that caught my eye. "Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product..." If that's true and not just someone typing in their blog before morning coffee, I'd certainly call it revolutionary. Traditionally, for business models actually intent on making money, you gave consumers free access in exchange for making them endure ads, your source of revenue. Alternatively, as when cable became a big thing back in ancient times, you could pay for a subscription as a way of getting commercial free viewing. A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting Services -
I was reading a few of the announcements this morning, and there was a line from the Hulu blog post[^] that caught my eye. "Hulu Plus is a new, revolutionary ad-supported subscription product..." If that's true and not just someone typing in their blog before morning coffee, I'd certainly call it revolutionary. Traditionally, for business models actually intent on making money, you gave consumers free access in exchange for making them endure ads, your source of revenue. Alternatively, as when cable became a big thing back in ancient times, you could pay for a subscription as a way of getting commercial free viewing. A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
It's not a new model. Newspapers have been doing it since they existed. Cable too: there are many, many channels you have to pay for that still have commercials (and lots of them). And don't forget going to the movies. I heard that Hulu will offer subscriptions for access to archived TV shows, while new stuff is still "free" (with ads, of course). I imagine the archived stuff will have ads as well as having to pay for them. At least Hulu has (so far) been fairly constrained in how many ads they have. We'll see. Shows used to be 50 minutes of entertainment per hour, they're down to 40 or so; I have a feeling that as it gains in popularity Hulu will go down the same road. Give me my entertainment on Blu-Ray: quality that makes HD broadcasts look like YouTube by comparison, and no ads.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
A new model that gets people to pay for subscriptions and still sit through ads? It'll probably work. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.
It's not a new model. Newspapers have been doing it since they existed. Cable too: there are many, many channels you have to pay for that still have commercials (and lots of them). And don't forget going to the movies. I heard that Hulu will offer subscriptions for access to archived TV shows, while new stuff is still "free" (with ads, of course). I imagine the archived stuff will have ads as well as having to pay for them. At least Hulu has (so far) been fairly constrained in how many ads they have. We'll see. Shows used to be 50 minutes of entertainment per hour, they're down to 40 or so; I have a feeling that as it gains in popularity Hulu will go down the same road. Give me my entertainment on Blu-Ray: quality that makes HD broadcasts look like YouTube by comparison, and no ads.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely, But thank you for your concern, Here's wishing you a Happy New Year." I wished him one back in return.