Hulu is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company. It was launched on October 29, 2007.
Ownership history of Hulu
Kelly Campbell, chief marketing officer, later president of Hulu, speaks to AdWeek in 2019.
Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network. Media is transferred in a "stream" of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is presently most prevalent in video-on-demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet.
A camera live streaming at a zoo by Niconico
A car audio receiver playing music being streamed via Bluetooth from a smartphone
A TV set streaming an audio file from a local home server