Netflix may be the largest video streaming service on the planet, but Hulu has its fans, as well. True, it may have just a fraction of users compared to Netflix, but its growth has been impressive in recent years.
Compared to other streamers, Hulu offers a unique blend of packages and services, including the ability to watch live TV (though in a rather expensive package). What follows are some of the less known facts about Hulu, some of which may prompt you to subscribe. Or at least try it out for a month and then decide whether it offers the content you like or not.
Hulu facts you may haven’t heard before
- Hulu grew from 5 million subscribers in 2013 to 25 million in just 6 years!
- Live TV on Hulu has 800,000 subscribers, which is an impressive number considering that the package costs a whopping $40 per month. Said package comes with 51 national cable channels along with approximately 600 local TV affiliations.
- It is estimated that female subscribers watched Hulu an average of 232 hours in 2 years. What’s even more interesting is that they equally enjoyed live sports along with other content.
- Hulu subscribers watched 36% more comedy shows in 2017 as compared to 2016.
- 17% of users watch Hulu on mobile devices, and 24% on laptop and desktop.
- Out of all Hulu subscribers, 14% are Gen Xers , 37% are Millennials and 11% are baby boomers.
- The average age of a Hulu subscriber is 31.
- Hulu ran an amazing ad during the Super Bowl 2019 when Alec Baldwin said Hulu would soon take over the world. That ad boosted Hulu traffic by 42%.
- Hulu isn’t all ad-free and its ads are said to be twice as effective as regular TV ads.
- Speaking of ads, Hulu made $770 million on ads in 2015.
- The net worth of Hulu is estimated to be $8 Billion in 2017. As of 2015, Hulu was making $860 million a year.
- Hulu has a 14% account share of live streaming in America.
- Hulu is only available in America and Japan. Because of rights agreements issues it has been unable to expand across the globe.
- Related to the previous point, Yahoo tried to buy Hulu in 2011 but the deal failed because of content licensing.
- The most popular show on Hulu, “The Handmaid’s Tale” had 33 Emmy nominations.
- Another show on Hulu, “South Park,” was watched for more than 107 million hours by American subscribers, which is an equivalent to 12,000 years of watching a movie.
- Hulu TV shows such as “Saturday Night Live” and James Franco documentary have achieved cult status.
- Hulu library contains more than 3,000 TV series. That’s around 68,000 hours of video.
- Hulu was initially established as a joint venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal, Providence Equity Partners, and later The Walt Disney Company, serving as an aggregation of recent episodes of television series from their respective television networks. Following its acquisition of 21st Century Fox in March 2019, Disney got a 60% majority stake in Hulu. AT&T (which acquired Time Warner in 2018) sold back its roughly 10% stake the following month. Comcast, the only other shareholder, announced on May 14, 2019, that it had agreed to cede its control to Disney, and reached an agreement for Disney to purchase its 33% stake in the company as early as 2024.
Conclusion
There is a good reason why people like Hulu with some of them subscribing to it exclusively. Most, however, opt for both Hulu and Netflix just to get an extra choice — which is always a plus in our book.
Fans of the “Handmaid’s Tale” can’t imagine “living without Hulu,” and having watched a few episodes I can personally relate to that.
If you’re not living in the U.S. or Japan — or even if you do and plan to travel abroad — you’ll need a VPN in order to keep your access from other countries. We suggest you start by checking our list of Best VPNs for Streaming. Those are all field-tested services and will let you do other things as well — like accessing all video streaming services, securely and anonymously browse the web, and more. Do it today and thank us later. 
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