Hulu is a USA website.
Hulu is a subscription video streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company. It offers movies, TV shows, documentaries and original productions, competing with Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Netflix and others.
The service was launched on March 18, 2008 as a joint venture of NBCUniversal, News Corporation and private equity company Providence Equity Partners. The Walt Disney Company bought a 27% interest in Hulu on April 30, 2009.
In July 2018, Walt Disney bought most of the assets of 21st Century Fox including its 30% interest in Hulu, giving Disney majority ownership of the service. Disney became the sole owner of Hulu in late 2023 when it bought Comcast's ownership interest, which Comcast had acquired from its 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal.
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-- On May 14, 2019, The Walt Disney Company said it will buy the 33% stake in Hulu owned by Comcast Corporation. The deal will give Disney full control of the streaming service effective immediately. Payment for the complex "put/call" deal may be delayed until 2024.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 17, 2019
-- Following shareholder approval in July, 2018 of Walt Disney's purchase of most of the assets of 21st Century Fox, the streaming service Hulu is now majority owned by Disney.
Hulu is owned by Hulu LLC, which was a joint venture of The Walt Disney Company (30% stake), 21st Century Fox (30%), Comcast/NBC Universal (30%) and AT&T Corporation (10%). With the Disney/Fox deal, Disney got the 21st Century Fox share and now owns 60% of Hulu.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 26, 2018
-- March 11, 2012: The companies report that the agreement is a first-ever between an international content distributor and an online video service. The deal permits Fremantle to globally distribute Hulu original series across all platforms, including traditional media.
David Ellender, Global CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises, said, "This is a ground-breaking deal, which sets a new precedent for acquiring...
-- Revenue for 2011 hit $420 million, which Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says "...exceeded our plan despite the soft advertising market (economy) in the second half of 2011."
More from Kilar's report, 2011, 2012 and beyond, published on January 12, 2012 on the official Hulu blog:
"Hulu Plus now has more than 1.5 million paying subscribers and this number continues to grow extremely...
-- According to figures released by comScore on July 15, 2011, Hulu generated the highest number of video ad impressions for the month of June at 1,001,736,000.
That's roughly a quarter of a billion more than second-place finisher Tremor Media Video Network, which won 753 million ad views, followed by Adap.tv (678 million) and BrightRoll Video Network (629 million).
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