{"id":566,"date":"2009-10-23T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2009-10-23T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T13:43:43","slug":"hulu-to-stop-being-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/hulu-to-stop-being-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu To Stop Being Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a growing trend you&#8217;re going to start seeing more and more of online, <strong>Hulu <\/strong>officials stated yesterday (well, kind of) that they plan to start charging for access to their videos beginning next year.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu has been a bit of a Cinderella story, originally launched to help combat video piracy by offering premium television content for free&#8230;and typically ranking behind only YouTube in video traffic.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike YouTube, the owners of Hulu (NBC, ABC and Fox) want to start getting paid.\u00a0 That means no more free. \u00a0 There&#8217;s no word yet on how they plan to do this, but subscription based models seem most likely.<\/p>\n<p>And if they are successful with it, you can bet on one thing;\u00a0 a steady flow of other video related sites will follow their lead.\u00a0 Good-bye free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a growing trend you&#8217;re going to start seeing more and more of online, Hulu officials stated yesterday (well, kind of) that they plan to start charging for access to their videos beginning next year. Hulu has been a bit of a Cinderella story, originally launched to help combat video piracy by offering premium television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}