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Watching Hulu Content on Facebook Through ClipBlast's App is Cool


Friday, February 5, 2010, 09:56 AM ET
posted by: Will Richmond

Here's something cool: ClipBlast updated its Facebook app yesterday to now include access to practically all of Hulu's content. ClipBlast's CEO/founder Gary Baker walked me through a demo and I was quite impressed. Once you've added the app, you can favorite certain Hulu shows and they appear as tiles which you can then easily scroll through. It's a huge step forward from Hulu's own mediocre Facebook app. You can also choose video from over 8,500 other sources that ClipBlast offers.

 

Though I'm personally not a huge Facebook user, the app resonated with me because it makes discovering and sharing video even more powerful as Facebook friends are just a click away. Of course Hulu has offered embedding from the start, but to get almost the whole Hulu library into Facebook, in front of a potential audience of 400 million users is classic "syndicated video economy" thinking. In the SVE, instead of solely trying to bring audience to your content (the traditional media model), efforts are also focused on bringing your content to the audience, wherever they live. All of Hulu's ads flow through as well, so views are still fully monetized. What's missing is full screen viewing, which Gary said is coming shortly.

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Categories: Aggregators, Syndicated Video Economy, Video Sharing

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4 Comments posted



Friday, February 5, 2010, 11:13 ET
There is a large world outside of the USA where this does not work. It should be mentioned OR you should continue and annoy non-US readers

Thomas Townsend
http://www.visin.com
Friday, February 5, 2010, 05:13 ET
Problem is Facebook already suffers quite often from major bandwidth issues. The last thing I want to do is watch a video from there. If the video is streaming inside say a framed app and the Video is being served up by Hulu from thier CDN, it might work. I have my doubts.

morgan
Friday, February 5, 2010, 05:48 ET
The bandwidth issue is not new and it is a concern but that's a different blog discussion. FB tools are not state-of-the-art and they continue to upgrade which makes developing with them a moving target but I have to admit that the Clipblast app and interface is probably one of the riches gui's I've seen implemented on FB. Congrads you guys - I am very impressed!

gmulder
Monday, February 8, 2010, 07:18 ET
speaking of 400 mio potential viewers does omits the fact that most of those live outside teh great legal firewall of distribution rights. to put it bluntly: outside the us we are legally not allowed to view hulu content - instead are asked to wait (long!) for mediaocre dubbed versions.
the technology is not the real issue in your proposed brave new world of "syndicated video economy" - it's the lawyers and the content owners anxiously sticking to their old controlled by-territory distribution. this has got to go - or there won't be a "syndicated video economy" outside the great legal firewall.



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