Hulu - Its Own Worst Enemy

admin · #1 10-26-2009, 12:57 PM

One doesn't have too look too hard to find examples of businesses mismanaged into oblivion. Circuit City's recent inexplicable demise is a textbook example. Is Hulu next? It very well may be and here's why.

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jamie2112 · #2 10-26-2009, 01:07 PM

I really love Hulu on tour in hotel rooms.I hope they get it together and stop the foolishness............

lsiberian · #3 10-26-2009, 01:26 PM

Kinda crazy. However it must be stated that many advertisers actually make commercials to advertise during a fast forward. So they still get your attention.

MeDotOrg · #4 10-26-2009, 01:29 PM

"One doesn't have too look too hard to find examples of businesses mismanaged into oblivion. Circuit City's recent inexplicable demise is a textbook example."

If Circuit City's demise is inexplicable, how can you say it was mismanaged?

AccessGuy · #5 10-26-2009, 01:33 PM

I believe the actual ratio is 1:3 In other words 25% of an hour show is advertising. This is why, when you watch an hour show on DVR and fast forward through the commercials (in 30 sec intervals via my remote!) the total time is just over 45 minutes.

Clint DeBoer · #6 10-26-2009, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MeDotOrg

If Circuit City's demise is inexplicable, how can you say it was mismanaged?

It's inexplicable that they could have allowed what happened to occur. You can't explain it or rationalize it. In hindsight it's almost a sequence of very obvious major blunders. What is inexplicable is how they allowed one to occur after the other.

ivseenbetter · #7 10-26-2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AccessGuy

I believe the actual ratio is 1:3 In other words 25% of an hour show is advertising. This is why, when you watch an hour show on DVR and fast forward through the commercials (in 30 sec intervals via my remote!) the total time is just over 45 minutes.

I thought 1:3 = 33%
1:4 = 25%

jliedeka · #8 10-26-2009, 06:44 PM

1:3 == 1 to 3 == 25%
1/3 == 1 out of 3 == 33%

dar_of_emur · #9 10-26-2009, 10:51 PM

Another great read. Thanks Tom.

AccessGuy · #10 10-27-2009, 12:07 AM

OK...if you mean the ratio of commercials/broadcasts it's 1:3, if you mean the ratio of commercials/total time, it's 1:4 capiche? Perhaps this next example will clarify a bit further: if the ratio of men to women in some group is 1:1, then 50% are men and 50% are women. The fraction is men/(men + women) or women/(men + women). In any case it's certainly a lot of commercials and FAR less then on HULU~!