When Hulu was launched as a joint venture between NBC and Fox last October, YouTube suddenly became their enemy - NBC even deleted it’s YouTube channel and all of the content.

However, it seems there is now an official Hulu channel on YouTube. It was started on March 3rd, but has only now been noticed by The LA Times.

March 3rd places the channel’s launch date just prior to Hulu launching publicly, after it’s trial beta version. So what is a Hulu channel doing on one of, if not the biggest rival it has?

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Revision3, the online video company headed by Digg’s Kevin Rose has reportedly inked a series of new deals which will see its original series being distributed in a number of new places.

The company is best known for Diggnation, a series all about Digg, and the stories which make it on the social bookmarking site, hosted by Rose himself.

The show has always been available on Revision3’s own site, as well as YouTube and iTunes, but will now also be available on Hulu, Joost, TiVo, Revver and Break.com as well.

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At the moment, it seems there’s a high level of confusion about how Web TV can be made to be profitable while still offering a fair deal to viewers keen to lap up the new Internet based experiences.

It seems NBC Universal think it may have found a way, but it means we’ll have to put up with a heavy amount of product placement in future output made for the Web.

CNet is reporting that due to a deal between the television company and the Omnicom Group, programming will now be designed solely to highlight a sponsor’s products.

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Hulu has been one of the most successful, and critically loved online television offerings since it launched at the end of last year. There’s one problem with the service however: it’s only available to American viewers.

As a Brit living in the UK, this is very frustrating. I have to spend my days reading articles about how good Hulu is while not having the opportunity to find out for myself.

But, there may be hope on the horizon, as Hulu has finally acknowledged that people outside of America exist, and may want to use the service.

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You may think the world already has enough Web TV applications to be going on with.

But the likes of Joost, Hulu, Vuze, Babelgum and more, now have a new competitor.

Blinkx already offer a video search engine, which enables users to browse their way through streaming videos from Google, YouTube, Metacafe and more.

Blinkx BBTV Launched

Now it has decided to try and compete in the already overcrowded online television sector, and today launched Blinkx BBTV (BroadBand TV) on to the masses.

The service offers the usual bells and whistles that you’d expect it to, with high quality video streaming, full screen viewing, and a choice of channels over many genres.

So far, so samey.

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Hulu eventually launched on Wednesday to an almost equal amount of hype and cynicism.

While some people, such as former CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner, are convinced that due to emerging services like Hulu, Internet content will equal television withinin the next five years, others are less convinced.

Eisner is already producing his second digital-only series to prove his point. But what’s the reality of Internet video content?

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Hulu officially launched on Wednesday after an extended and very successful period in beta. 

Hulu is a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation which offers multiple online videos. 

As listed on their blog, while announcing the launch:

“Today we are excited to leave our private beta and open Hulu.com to everyone in the U.S.”

So what is the Hulu experience? That depends on your expectations and starting point. I’m going to start with the technical experience since that is how I approached de-constructing the site.

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