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LOCAL ADS on HULU Plus

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Kenny Atkinson

So, I'm one of these people who have cut back on their cable from normal basic to 35.00 a economy package.You get about 20 cable channels with USA,FX,CNN and a few others in favor of an 8.00 a month subscription to HULU and Netflix.

I'm watching Monday Night Raw on HULU and a local political ad pops up to vote for Table games at a local slot parlor.I thought this was a complete stream from one source.Any one else experience this and does anyone know if HULU uses local hubs or is experiencing with it?
I hope not not because I dropped certain cable channels because shows are ending up on HULU the day after they air.AKA (Friday Night Smackdown) which airs on SYFY and is not on the cable pkg I subscribe too.
If Hulu is going into the direction of using local (so-called) hubs then this will open the door to blacking out certain shows which will suck and defeats the purpose in subscribing to these services.
btw,I am in the Providence R.I. market
 
They pretty much do that solely for political ads and local cable companies (say, I get a Charter ad on my Charter connection, but I won't be getting an ad for Comcast or WOW); being in Wisconsin I'm getting the usual negative ads I am on TV during Hulu breaks. They also use IP's for geotargeting so that for ABC programming, I get the logo for WBAY in Green Bay on-screen (for some reason Charter's IP software renders me in a different city in the Green Bay market a county over when I'm in the Milwaukee DMA). It's not hubbing, just IP geotargeting making sure people in the west get Best Food ads, not Hellman's ads, and in areas where the political landscape is dull no political ads air.
 
So pretty much if I am watching a CBS program in Yakima via Hulu, that the KIMA logo automatically pops up? Or here in Seattle, I see KIRO/7's logo?

-crainbebo
 
mrschimpf said:
They pretty much do that solely for political ads and local cable companies (say, I get a Charter ad on my Charter connection, but I won't be getting an ad for Comcast or WOW); being in Wisconsin I'm getting the usual negative ads I am on TV during Hulu breaks. They also use IP's for geotargeting so that for ABC programming, I get the logo for WBAY in Green Bay on-screen (for some reason Charter's IP software renders me in a different city in the Green Bay market a county over when I'm in the Milwaukee DMA). It's not hubbing, just IP geotargeting making sure people in the west get Best Food ads, not Hellman's ads, and in areas where the political landscape is dull no political ads air.
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You just stumbled on something.I do remember watching something on HULU an ABC show and my local ABC bug was on the screen.Here in Providence it's WLNE ABC6
 
I see PG&E commercials on Hulu Plus all the time. I'm sure no one outside California gets those. And yes, the ABC bug is localized by market.
 
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