Unlike YouTube, Hulu doesn’t show you the number of times a given video has been viewed. Although the site does have a “Most Popular” section, Hulu recently started offering a bit more insight into viewing trends by distributing “Movers & Shakers” charts (via email) that lists the most popular videos, shows, clips, movie trailers, and search terms over a given week.
Perhaps most interesting of the bunch is the “most popular show” category, a combination of clips and full episodes that tells you what has moved up and down in the past week (versus the other data, which can more or less be easily found on the site), serving as a TV ratings of sorts for the Web (minus CBS, the only network not involved with the venture).
In this week's rankings, Saturday Night Live – hosted by Taylor Swift - moved up into the #1 slot for TV shows, not surprising given that clips from the show currently dominate the site’s “most popular” section. SNL is followed by The Office, Family Guy, and The Daily Show.
Here’s a sampling of the lists: