It’s five years since Spotify launched its first physical music concerts for its flagship hip-hop playlist ‘RapCaviar’.
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Entertainment bundles are coming: the question is the terms
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Apple wants to launch a new model of paying for music, and major labels are ‘wary’ of the implications. No, you haven’t […]
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Spotify / Hulu bundle signups end in the US for everyone except students
Spotify launched its first bundled subscription with video-streaming service Hulu in the US in September 2017, for $4.99 a month. The company later rolled it out as a $12.99-a-month option for all American customers in April 2018, then dropped the price to $9.99 a month in March this year.
Now a surprise: Spotify has ended the ability of anyone except students to sign up for a combined Spotify/Hulu subscription. “It’s no longer possible to sign up to this deal unless you’re eligible for the student discount,” explains a page on Spotify’s support website.
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Hulu reveals latest milestone and ‘binge advertising experience’
Video-streaming service Hulu now has 28.1 million customers in the US, including 26.8 million paid subscribers and 1.3 million people on ‘promotional accounts’. The company revealed the new figures at its latest […]
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Spotify bundles Hulu into its $9.99 premium US subscription
Americans have been able to get Spotify and Hulu in a $12.99-a-month subscription bundle since last year. Now that bundle is getting cheaper. “Starting today, March 12, you can enjoy […]
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‘Subscription mooching’ is an issue for video-streaming services
We like it when a new term is coined to describe people’s digital habits: ‘subscription mooching’ is our new favourite. What’s that? It’s when people ‘mooch a login’ for a […]
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Hulu may expand globally – good news for Spotify?
Disney will soon own a 60% stake in video-streaming service Hulu, thanks to its buyout of 21st Century Fox. That will give the company a bigger influence over Hulu’s strategy, […]
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View-Tang Clan: hip-hop group gets dramatic
Up from the 36 seasons… Hulu has commissioned 10 episodes of Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a new drama series around legendary hip-hop act Wu-Tang Clan.
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Spotify’s US student Hulu bundle adds Showtime subscription
It’s nearly a year since Spotify launched a $5-a-month package for students in the US that included a subscription to video-streaming service Hulu as well as its own music offering. Now the Spotify Premium for Students bundle is getting bigger, adding in a subscription to TV network Showtime.
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Hulu now has 17m subscribers after adding 5m since 2016
Video-streaming service Hulu has announced its latest milestone: 17 million subscribers. That’s up from 12 million in May 2016, which means the service has averaged just 263,000 net new subscribers a month over that period.
Compare that to Netflix, which has been adding around five million subscribers a quarter in recent times, albeit with a global footprint rather than Hulu’s more US-focused business.
In the US, Netflix ended last September with 51.4 million subscribers, which is a better comparison to Hulu. However, the latter has more metrics which paint a positive picture of its business.
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Hulu going subscription-only with ad-supported Yahoo deal
Yes, that headline sounds like a contradiction, but what’s happening with streaming TV service Hulu does make sense.
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YouTube and Hulu both working on streaming-TV services
By which we mean services that stream traditional cable channels over the internet – obviously, both YouTube and Hulu are already streaming ‘TV’ to people.
Hulu has confirmed its plans to offer both live and recorded shows from a bundle of channels belonging to its co-owners 21st Century Fox, the Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal, with a likely cost of $40 per month for subscribers.