I get the feeling many folks aren’t working today. Which means that those of who you are can probably sneak in an extra couple minutes to entertain yourselves with Web video. So here’s Tina Fey on last night’s episode of “30 Rock,” doing her best Steve Jobs imitation.
Lots of news emanating from Hulu today–but nothing ground-moving. That could still come in the near future: I keep hearing that the joint venture between NBC and Fox is getting close to a deal to bring ABC into the fold. But no confirmation yet. In the meantime, Hulu wants you to know that it’s the biggest video site that isn’t YouTube, and that it now boasts some social-network-like features.
Why have Hulu’s videos disappeared from TV.com, the Hulu-like video site CBS recently relaunched? Perhaps because Hulu isn’t pumped up about supplying its content to a competitor–especially one that won’t supply its content to Hulu.
YouTube may have been the only big Web site that didn’t provide a live stream of Barack Obama’s inauguration. But its users are rectifying this as we speak: They’re currently uploading clips of the ceremony to the site at a staggering pace.
Another would-be “viral video” from NBC’s show that NBC can’t show you on NBC.com or Hulu. Blame a copyright issue (of course), and look for it on YouTube instead.
The video site saw a huge surge in interest during the fall. But its post-election audience may not have eroded as much as we thought.
Last summer, you couldn’t buy an ad at red-hot Hulu if you wanted to. Just like everything else in online ad sales, that has changed in just a few months.
File under “interesting, but understandable”: After a flurry of election-related interest in October, traffic to red-hot Hulu fell off in November. Blame Sarah Palin–or the lack of her.
Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds are you didn’t. The video site’s first attempt at a live-streamed event drew a peak audience of 700,000 people. That’s a lot for a Web event. But if it was a TV show, it would have been canceled.
That was fast.
The recent resurgence of “Saturday Night Live,” spurred by Republican VP candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her comic doppelgänger, Tina Fey, may already be over.
How do I know? Well, there’s the gut check–I watched most of Saturday’s show, which didn’t feature Palin or Fey, and it was a snoozer (the absence of new mom Amy Poehler probably didn’t help either).
But we can also gauge the reaction of Internet users, thanks to the good folks at TubeMogul, a small start-up that specializes in tracking Web video views.
And the results are not so good.
Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.
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