14 DAY TRIAL // It's almost official: Hulu, the next YouTube killer is set to be released on Monday, Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch announced today. It seems like NBC, the company which earlier this week removed its content from Google's video sharing service, wants to launch its long-awaited YouTube-like service on Monday in order to release it in October, just like it first announced a long time ago. According to the source mentioned above, NBC planned this week's YouTube removal in order to launch Hulu just after the deletion is completed and bring its content on its own video sharing service. Moreover, a few months ago, NBC took its content from iTunes, the famous platform which sells legal content on the web.
"Now, says our source, Hulu is gunning for a private beta launch next Monday, so that it can still meet CEO Jason Kilar's self-imposed October deadline. That date could slip until the following Wednesday and technically be considered on-time, of course, but Kilar probably wants to avoid the trick-or-treat jokes," Erick Schonfeld wrote in the article published on TechCrunch today.
At this time, there are way too many YouTube killers but none of them managed to represent a real threat for the Mountain View company's technology. Sony's eyeVio is just one of the examples because before being released, a lot of companies talked about it like the potential YouTube killer which aims to attract the same segment of users and steal the majority of them. After it was finally released, eyeVio was made available only to the Japanese users and it remained an anonymous technology which is not able to compete with Google's video sharing service.
GodTube is a YouTube-like technology which aims to attract Christians with its Church-related content but Google's video sharing service managed to reply with a single channel which targeted the same category of users.