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Weekly Rewind: Is Hulu's CEO on the Way Out?

August 24, 2012
By Greg Franzese
Hulu could be seeing some reshuffling on top. An internal company memo from July includes these ominous lines: "Outline transition plan for new CEO. Discuss potential candidates and process."
 
The FCC is telling networks and websites that online videos will have to include closed captions beginning Sept. 30.
 
A study by NPD has found about 18 percent of the world's Internet users are watching online video daily on television sets. Leading the way are urban Chinese users.
 
You might enjoy your zippy Internet when watching Netflix, but a new FCC report has found about 19 million Americans still lack access to broadband.
 
Over in China, online video leaders Youku and Tudou consolidate in hopes of saving $60 million on content licensing, bandwidth and other costs.
 
Gangnam Style, the K-pop music video that has repeatedly halted VideoMind productivity, gets analyzed by The Atlantic. Turns out it's much deeper than we thought.
 
YouTube's latest channel Elections Hub will aggregate news and opinion from a variety of news sources, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera and Buzzfeed.
 
Google TV will be arriving in Germany when Sony's new set-top box launches in the country next month.
 
Verizon's Netflix competitor Redbox Instant is set to launch later this year. Since the service can't compete with Netflix on library size -- "Do you really need 100,000 titles? I mean really?" said Paul Davis, CEO of Coinstar, parent company of Redbox -- it is expected to deliver fewer, higher quality titles.
 
In line with the YouTube browser experience, the mobile one now includes skippable ads.
Posted in Online Video News
Tags weekly rewind, online video, connected tv, online video advertising
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