Live Internet TV guide/aggregator website clicker.com which was launched on the back of $8 million worth of financial support has raised an additional $11 million bringing its total funding to $19 million. The website which has a comprehensive set of golf links and searches allowing you to watch pretty much anything online, free or pay to view.
Clicker was proclaimed itself to the realism in November 2009 with the aim of beadvent the greatest internet television guide. Clicker is not trying to contend with existing online tv websites but is acting a comprehensive guide to them. It achieves this by indexing a selection of movies, tv shows, music videos. Some streams can be watched on the Clicker website but mostly you get redirected to the website that hosts the stream.
Considering the website doesn’t actually host any content which is a massive, you have to wonder why they need the cash. Well, wonder no more – The company is using the cash to support long-term product development and partnerships with major content providers.
Clicker has listings and links to around 600,000 episodes from 10,000 shows and movie streams. The jury is still out over whether a website like this is needed as it just redirects users elsewhere, and annoyingly mostly to content that has to be paid for. But with the kind of backing and cash it has pot it.
Since the brandish of the SeeSaw launch this week, many have been wondering how the proper Hulu got left behind. Planning to launch in the UK for over a year, it has been pipped to the post by the new young upstart and other assists. So how did they let this happen?
Advertising disagreements with the UK broadcasters have been the cause of the delays. Effectively, Hulu want to view the advertising and the broadcasters have been giving them the feel in return. But that came and went. Networks Channel 4 and Five were courted by Hulu for exclusive distribution right.
Will Hulu Ever Hit The UK?
And now it may well be too late. Channel 4 and Five content is now syndicated via YouTube and SeeSaw, I’m beginning to wonder if Hulu will ever go international. Of the big UK networks, ITV is currently halting all negotiations whilst it undergoes a “10 week strategic assessment” and the BBC are concentrating on Project analyze.
So will Hulu ever have a UK presence?
Sources say that Hulu have now pencilled in June 2010 for a uk release, but will it nowbe a viable stage business when channel 4 and Five now have deals in state of affairs that give them control of their own advertising inventory.
