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Premium video site Hulu has just announced that it would make its first international expansion: Japan.
Hulu keeps mum on details, but it sounds like it will offer a premium subscription service (the American version of Hulu offers premium and free content). Now the company has an Office in Tokyo and is preparing to launch "later this year" (again, no more details on this front).
From the blog:
We are excited about entering Japan right now for a variety of reasons. For one thing, Nihon WA subarashii Cooney desu ("Japan is a beautiful country"). Japanese audience passionate about premium video content, and the country is a major producer of world-class Television and feature films (Japanese content plays an important part of the contents of Hulu's lineup in the United States for a long time already). In Japan, we also see unfulfilled market need with premium movies and TV content, and very favourable environmental factors in our service, including extensive broadband penetration, Smartphone and the widespread use of the device connected to the Internet and strong consumer interest. We were able to use what we have learned from Hulu and Hulu plus, in addition to insights from our market research, design, high value product, specially for Japanese clients.
Hulu has established itself in the United States as the primary place to watch the latest TV shows (and, increasingly, movies) with image content as The Daily Show and the Office. He started the Hulu plus in June 2010, which is a premium subscription version of the site, which costs $ 7.99 and offers more content, additional devices, including Xbox 360 and the iPad.
It also prevents frustrating limitations of content owners who enjoy making their contents for any period of time and then delete it. Not that he ever burned me.
Founded in March 2007, Hulu is managed independently by a dedicated management team with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle and Beijing. NBC Universal, News Corporation, as. ..
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