SplashCast Puts TV on MySpace, Facebook

Portland, OR-based SplashCast, an online content-syndication startup, announced it has teamed up with video service Hulu to distribute TV shows and other content on Facebook and MySpace. SplashCast’s “social TV player” software will syndicate new episodes from Hulu directly to viewers’ social-network pages. Twenty shows are currently available, and the company says “dozens more” will be running this month. Founded in 2006, SplashCast has 10 million viewers a month.

Author: Gregory T. Huang

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