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Tag Archives: hulu
Hulu Captions Search a Preview of General Video Search to Come?
Hulu has a new captions search feature available via Hulu Labs. The feature allows Hulu users to search the captions of videos across hundreds of different shows. Show and video pages now have a "Captions" tab, and search can be found there. "Recently I watched an episode of House, and they made a funny joke about the resemblance between Dr. Foreman (Omar Epps) and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. I couldn’t remember which episode it was in, let alone which moment of within the episode," says Hulu's Eugene Wei. "With the new caption search, I just type in 'mike tomlin', and voila." Users can hover their cursors over images to get quick previews. It will show a short segment of a video centered around the search term. This will play in the thumbnail. This is a good example of how video search is going to be improving significantly. YouTube, the world's most popular video site (and 2nd largest search engine) recently announced that it would be including automatic captions on videos . This makes videos much more searchable as far as dialogue goes. "One bonus that comes with caption search is what we're calling the heat map. This is a visual graph of the user interest throughout the span of a video and is available on any captioned video that has accumulated enough user views," says Wei. "It appears at the top of the captions tab for those videos. We analyze a variety of viewer behaviors to generate the heat map." The heat map can be used as a navigation tool, and to find popular segments of video. Wei talks a bit more about the heat map aspect here . Hulu's Caption search is still just a beta feature, so it is subject to imperfections. The site is openly encouraging feedback via feedback@hulu.com. Continue reading
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Tagged Business, coach mike tomlin, dr foreman, house, hulu, imperfections, search-captions, user, video site
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Hulu Adds New Options to the Queue
Popular online video destination Hulu has added a new default view for the user's queue. The new view groups all videos within the queue by show. In the past, users could only sort everything by show by clicking on the title and information column. "As we've added more content and as users' queues have grown in size, grouping by show as a default was a logical update," says Eugene Wei VP, Product at Hulu. With the new layout, there are two display options. One of them is a vertical text list of videos for each show, and the other shows them more visually with thumbnails, horizontally. You can see both displays below. Both views contain a link that says "Play All," which will allow users to simply play the videos in order from oldest to most recently aired. "As before, clicking on any video within a show in your queue will activate continuous play, but in this new 'group by show' view, we’ll only play through all the videos from that particular show," notes Wei. In addition to the new display options for the queue, Hulu has made it easier to add entire seasons of shows. On show pages, there is now a link that says "+ all". Clicking this will have a whole season of a how queued up for you. Related Articles: > Hulu Adds "Coming Soon" Page > Hulu Launches 2 New Labs Features > Hulu Makes Changes to Search Results Continue reading
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Tagged default view, hulu, particular-show, play-the-videos, product-at-hulu, queue, queues, search, search-results, thumbnail, thumbnail-view, user
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YouTube May Expand Into TV Show Biz
It's no secret that YouTube's trying to catch up to Hulu in terms of offering premium content; the site's administrators often make a big deal out of movie and TV show additions. Continue reading
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Tagged been-publicized, Business, hulu, introduction, like-the-pirate, movie, peter kafka, pirate bay, show biz, videos
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Hulu is Seeing Record Numbers
comScore Video Metrix has released its monthly look at the performance of online video content properties. As usual, Google sites dominate the picture, largely because of YouTube, which gets 99% of Google's video views. The real story, however, is that Hulu is achieving record numbers. The site ranked number 2 (though significantly behind Google with 3.1% market share compared to Google's 37.7) during the month of October, with an all time high of 856 million videos viewed. On top of that, the average Hulu viewer watched 20.1 videos during the month, representing another record for the site. This amounts to about 2 hours of videos per viewer. Here's a look at the top ten online video content properties for the month of October: Some other highlights (not Hulu-specific) from comScore's findings: Continue reading
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Tagged among-video, amp nbsp, hulu, music, online-video, performance, tremor media, video content, video sites, video viewers, video-network, viewers-watched, youtube
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Facebook Catapults Into Third Place Among Video Sites
When tracking statistics from month to month, we're often forced to examine very tiny changes, and determining whether they're significant can be tough. Continue reading
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Tagged from-the-hulu, hulu, microsoft, million-streams, nature, review and story, social, unique-viewers, yahoo
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Hulu Gets Feet Wet in the Music Video Pool
Hulu and record label EMI have struck a deal, which will give the video content site some music videos, one area in which the site has lacked. Hulu fans shouldn't get too excited about the site becoming a big music video destination just yet though. The deal, according to the New York Times, is to give artists Norah Jones her own channel (which is already live), and over time, add more EMI artists. The Norah Jones channel has all of her music videos, concert footage, and interviews. EMI is only one of four major labels, and the smallest one at that. So, even if more EMI artists begin getting their own channels on Hulu, that would hardly make it THE place to go for music video content. However, Hulu appears optimistic that it will get deals done with other labels in the future. Brad Stone with the NYT reports : Andy Forssell, Hulu’s senior vice president for content and distribution, said that Hulu toyed with the idea of putting tens of thousands of music videos on the site. “In the end, we thought the best starting point that fit with our mission, and with what our users expect, is a good mix of content, some music videos, long-form content and interviews, everything we can get for an immersive experience around certain artists,” he said. Mr. Forssell said talks were continuing with the other labels and that 'my sense is that we’ll be in relationships with all of them at some point." Music fans already have other options for music video viewing of course. To name a few, YouTube, MySpace, MTVMusic, and the highly anticipated Vevo (which is still in the works) will provide plenty of competition for Hulu in terms of capturing those views. Terms of the Hulu-EMI deal are unknown. Related Articles: > Continue reading
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Tagged Business, emi, hulu, music, music-video, music-videos, new york times, norah-jones, nyt, senior vice president, vevo, video site, youtube
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Watch: Cookie Monster Sings About Google
If you are a regular visitor to the Google home page , you have probably noticed that Big Bird's legs have taken the place of the ls in Google's logo (in the US). Sesame Street's 40th anniversary is coming up on November 10th, and Google has announced that it will be featuring a different character for each day until then. They haven't wasted anytime with the characters yet though, because depending on what region you are in, you may have seen different characters already (and not necessarily all from Sesame Street). For example, Google.co.uk has a doodle up for Wallace and Gromit, who are apparently also celebrating their 20th anniversary. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable has provided a list of all of the different Google properties that are showing children’s programming-related doodles and their corresponding images. Google discussed the series of doodles in a post to the company blog today. The company says Sesame Street provided them with the following video as well, which features Cookie Monster singing a song, part of which is to the tune of "Old McDonald" and has the lyrics "with a Google Google here, and a Google Google there..." Continue reading
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Tagged characters, cookie monster, google co uk, google home page, google uk, googlers, hulu, old mcdonald, search, singing a song, street game, taken-the-place
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