Hulu Cleans Itself Up And Organizes Into Channels

Hulu Cleans Itself Up And Organizes Into Channels

In a press release Tuesday, Hulu announced that it now has over 900 series and movie titles in its library from over 100 content providers. So, in conjunction, the video hub--started as a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.--has done some cleanup work.

Hulu now has a "Channels" option where you can sort through its programming by genre, from "comedy" to "reality" to "anime," a channel that the site is currently working to beef up in order to attract Japanese animation's millions of Web-savvy fans. There's additionally a "Web Originals" channel to filter the programming that's available only online--from the new Lonelygirl15 series The Resistance, to short comedy series produced by Saturday Night Live actors and writers, to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. If you don't know what that is, I suggest you search for it on Hulu.

Indexing by channels is something that other video-content providers, like Joost, have already been doing for months. But Hulu didn't need it at first--launching with a handful of movies, Web series, and NBC and Fox shows, giving the option to sort by genre would only have made the selection look limited. Now that Hulu has gotten much bigger (two words: Stephen Colbert), it's a different story entirely.

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