4. I heard there are ads on Hulu Plus. Why?
We include advertisements in Hulu Plus in order to ensure that the ads we’ve sold to companies get seen, so we can amass the largest possible amount of capital by providing a service that is basically we do nothing and still get money.
Hulu Plus offers what no other streaming content service on the market today can: episodes, and shows, and seasons. All of them. This means full series runs (which we’re explaining to make seem impressive) of the shows you watched when you were growing up but since convinced yourself you imagined like Alf, Doogie Houser MD, Doctor Quinn: Medicine Woman, and Road Rules.
We have found that by including just enough ads to annoy you enough to look up why we’re serving ads on a service you’re paying for, Goddammit, we can keep the price for Hulu Plus under eight bucks, which we’d like to remind you is less than you can buy a sandwich for at most airports, while still providing you addicts with access from most devices that vibrate.
We’re continually working to tailor the ad experience, so that when you see the ads they’ll be about how you’re a man if you’re man and otherwise about something else if you’re not a man. In addition, we are always trying to find out how to squeeze more money out of you, so if we decided to release an ad-free Hulu Plus-Plus, you can pay for that instead, sucker.