While YouTube continues to dominate, it does lack the exclusive premium content offered by Hulu.
But premium content has also become somewhat commoditized across online video sites in China.
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For non-premium content, it has been difficult to achieve sustainable profitability under these circumstances.
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The compensation package includes a selection of free games and additional days of premium content.
The quantity of content is further expanded through premium content services available through the Smart TV function.
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Clearly, YouTube would benefit from premium content, the kind of stuff you could watch on Netflix and Hulu.
It also offers more choices to premium content owners for their professional content production encoding and transcoding needs.
This includes mobile payment, enterprise productivity and mobile banking applications, as well as online commerce and premium content services.
The addition of these new premium content services addresses an increased customer demand for a further expanded offering of best-in-class entertainment.
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But a couple years ago Tudou added premium content and it has been showing more and more content licensed from professional producers.
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The updated FCC IP interface requirements and continued work on the DLNA Premium Content guidelines are also forcing progress forward, albeit slowly.
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It's easy to search and select from LG's comprehensive content collection on the Smart Home interface with its convenient Premium Content menu.
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"We expect more than 500, 000 subscribers to have DLNA premium content functionality using our Trio advanced guide within a year, " he added.
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Sure, cable companies already have VOD for a lot of programming, but it's typically premium content like HBO, and doesn't have commercials anyway.
It provides unparalleled choice for consumers and these latest announcements demonstrate how committed LG is to ensuring it offers the very latest premium content.
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At FORBES, direct sales for our premium content (as opposed to programmatic buying) consistently yields much higher CPMs for desktop and frequently for mobile.
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In addition to the free games, users were also offered 30 days free PlayStation Plus membership which offers premium content not available to free users.
With Flash Access 3.0, it is now possible to securely deliver multiple TV "channels" to millions of subscribers with a cost-effective premium content protection solution.
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Traditional media companies are challenged by what constitutes premium content .
The company has partnerships with premium content providers like Netflix and VUDU, and will be introducing new partnerships with Hulu Plus and Amazon Video OnDemand this year.
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The traditional model was to create and perfect premium content between periodical runs, know their audience, sell advertising to companies targeting their audiences, and do it again.
"Search technology is valuable but the next generation of search is going to be about premium content and the interface that users have to that content, " he said.
Finally, the Financial Times is now available on Flipboard -- you'll even be able to read premium content by logging into your Financial Times account right within the app.
In the past these website creators have been using advertising to generate revenue but many of them wanted to charge for premium content and features, says Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal.
Zynga games like "FarmVille" led the way for games that are free to download and play but then require players to pay small fees for in-game upgrades or premium content.
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Comcast is working with Intel to develop this technology based on upcoming enhancements to the DLNA Premium Content Guidelines to deliver its XFINITY TV experience to Intel-based devices in the home.
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ESPN.org and Consumer Reports have successful premium content models.
Amazon discounts its mobile devices to sell premium content.
ESPN.com and Consumer Reports has successful premium content models.
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"Today, we have millions of set-top boxes deployed capable of delivering content to DLNA premium content products using our Signature Home Service, " said Mike LaJoie, EVP and CTO of Time Warner Cable.
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