Hulu Releases Happy Year-End Stats

by Michelle Lentz on December 30, 2009

It’s the end of the year and everyone who is happy is releasing their stats. Those that aren’t happy, well, not so much. Hulu is getting into the stats game with a Thank You blog post letting us all know that TV-via-PC is very much here to stay.

Let’s start with some of the more useful, business-related stats.

  • According to comScore, monthly users of Hulu grew to over 43 million, a 95 percent increase over this time last year.
  • Hulu doubled their content in the last year, now offering 14,000 hours of content. Last year they offered 5,600 and I still depended on them.
  • Here’s an advertising tidbit for you: The number of advertisers/marketers using Hulu has also more than doubled, growing from 166 to 408.
  • Embeds are up too. Over 6.4 million Hulu players were embedded, which is a 237% jump.

Now for some of the more entertaining factoids:

We like comedies, as evidenced by four of the five most popular shows this year: Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, The Office, The Simpsons, and Naruto Shippuden. In line with that, the most popular clip of the year was an SNL Digital Short: Motherlover. Also in that vein, the most popular full episode was Family Guy’s “Stew-Roids.”

Have you switched over to your PC yet for video? By the numbers, it looks like more and more of us have.

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Cheers!
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