What is "hulu"

Hulu (stylized as hulu) is an American subscription video on demand service owned by Hulu LLC, a consortium consisting of The Walt Disney Company, 21st Century Fox, Comcast and as of 2016, Time Warner through their Disney-ABC Television Group, Fox Broadcasting Company, NBCUniversal Television Group and Turner divisions.

It is primarily oriented towards television series, carrying current and past episodes of series from its owners' respective television networks and other content partners. It was previously divided into free and paid tiers, with the free service limited in the amount of content accessible by users and is accessible via PC only, and a paid service with a larger library of content and access via Hulu applications for various mobile and connected devices. The subscription service is, in turn, divided into advertising-supported and mostly ad-free tiers. In 2016, Hulu spun out its free content into a joint venture with Yahoo!, Yahoo! View, and also announced that it intends to launch a service with live television programming some time in 2017.