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Vessel.com has officially launched after three months of beta operations limited to video creators and a select group of initial users. And to celebrate, the much-ballyhooed and heavily financed online-video site is giving away one-year subscriptions to people signing up in the site’s first 72 hours of full…

Weeks after it came out of stealth mode and allowed online-video creators in to kick the tires, the heavily financed startup Vessel.com has opened to the public, offering all-you-can-eat subscriptions for exclusive early access to content from an array of prominent media companies and online stars. The site has…

The long-gestating Vessel, a subscription-based online-video site backed with big bucks and aggressively recruiting YouTube stars with fat contracts, came out of stealth mode today. In a blog post by CEO Jason Kilar, the company said it is launching a “creator preview” so online video talent can set up a presence on…

Even in the hyperventilating world of online media, 1 billion views is A Very Big Number. So accordingly, the enthusiastically geeky guys behind the three Vsauce YouTube channels were in a mood to celebrate after passing that major milestone. The three producer/hosts — Michael Stevens, Kevin Lieber and Jake Roper…

Current CEO Jason Kilar who is leaving at the end of the month revealed the news today on Hulu‘s website. “You know Andy well”, Kilar said, “he's been a critical senior executive and has been here from the start of this great adventure. As the company's SVP Content, Forssell helped build Hulu grow from a startup in…

Kilar just posted the news on the Hulu blog. He says that he is “currently working with the Board to ensure there is ample runway to manage this transition.” Although Kilar turned Hulu into one of the Web’s most popular video destinations, he has been widely expected to leave. He has had several run-ins with its…

CEO Jason Kilar took to the company blog today to announce Hulu's results for 2012. He said the streaming service would close the year with about $695 million in revenue, up 65% over a year ago. Kilar also said that there are now over 3 million paying subscribers for the Hulu Plus Service. That is a subscriber rise of…

The deal removes the leading non-broadcaster force at the video streaming company that’s controlled by Disney and News Corp and includes NBCUniversal, according to reports in TechCrunch and Bloomberg. Hulu’s said to have borrowed the cash to repurchase Providence Equity’s shares, which it bought in 2007 for $100M. Its…

The much-hyped Hulu auction may end up a bust because “the bids are not coming in as high as (the company’s backers) hoped,” Business Insider reports. Hulu was looking for more than $2B, but the site has said that Dish Network came in at $1.9B.  Google’s believed to have topped that with $4B, but that’s contingent on…

No word about Hulu’s effort to find a buyer. But CEO Jason Kilar offers a strong sales pitch for the company in a status report he posted online today. He says the company owned by Disney, News Corp and Comcast’s NBCUniversal is “on pace to approach half a billion in 2011 revenue.” With 875,000 customers in June…