A new kids TV website has been launched by Cookie Jar Entertainment.

The new TV site Jaroo.com, which is your regular Hulu type site is targetted towards kids in the 4-12 year age range, and has a good selection of 22 minute long shows (mainly cartoon) supported by advertising.

The site has one of the biggest selections of free to view full-length kids tv series including Inspector Gadget, The Adventures of Paddington Bear, Johnny Test, Cake, Madeline, Ripley’s Believe It or Not and popular cartoon show Mona the Vampire.

At launch, the website launches with 50 shows and 500 episodes but will keep growing as the Cookie Jar’s library is being converted.

Around 9.5% of all US internet users are children aged 11 or below, each spending some 11 hours per month online, compared to seven hours a month four years ago.

New content is to be added on a daily basis, with over 2000 episodes offered over the next three months to ensure Jaroo.com is always up to date.

About Cookie Jar Group – Cookie Jar, a 5 years old Canadian company which produces and distributes children shows doubled its library last year when it purchased DIC Entertainment for $83 million.

Kenneth Locker, Senior Vice President Digital Media of Cookie Jar commented:- “What makes Jaroo.com truly special is the breadth of popular kids shows available in a single one-stop location. Jaroo.com not only offers the largest variety of kids programming, but the site was specially designed to be easily navigated and hosted in a kid-safe, kid-friendly environment. It`s for kids and fans alike.”

Check out Jaroo.com

Organising your Hulu viewing experience has just been made a little easier. Hulu have added a new feature called ‘Coming Soon’ which will let you know exactly when your favorite show is going to be streamed.

Placed in a convenient location is a new ‘coming soon’ tab. Just click and find out which shows are getting uploaded soon.

Or is it a complete waste of time? After all, everyone knows they can catch a show online the day after it airs. Maybe its to attract viewers that like to not have to think!

Of course the Hulu boys are not silly, so the TV Coming Soon section may be more important than we think. The more user friendly and easy to navigate hulu becomes, the more it may encourage viewers to get watching tv online.

Hulu also rolled out some other new features along with the Coming Soon page. Viewers can get email notifications of when their show has been uploaded to Hulu’s servers and blog owners can get the embed the episode code ahead of time.

The official Hulu Blog commented:- “If you’re a registered user, you can request an email notification to alert you when a particular video has been added to Hulu.com. We’ll also alert you on the rare occasion when that video is late in getting up on Hulu.com. For bloggers and editors, you can also grab the code to pre-embed the video to your blog.”

If you had the choice of watching cable or using an itunes interface for all your tv needs, which would you choose?

Apple is pushing the idea to the TV and cable networks, pushing for a $30 per month iTunes subscription service allowing viewers to watch the same shows they currently watch on cable. And they are looking to launch in 2010.

Apple have in the past looked into video subscription services, but the idea has not been warmly received due to content providers beleiving they would lose viewers to more lucrative traditional advertising models. However, now that internet TV is booming, Apple may have more success this time.

Apple’s sales pitch to the networks is of course its mammoth user base currently sitting around 65 million iTunes account users who may just be persuaded to pay $30 a month for subscription content. content providers could find a new revenue stream in the digital space.

So far, The Wall Street Journal reports that none of the major media companies have agreed to a deal with Apple, the guessing is that if a company was to agree a deal it would be Disney. Steve Jobs is Disney’s largest shareholder and Apple and Disney have an existing content deal.

Its a good time for Apple to be pitching this idea. They have a large user base of 65 million iTunes users that are accustomed to monthly subscriptions and television viewing is getting ever more Internet based. If Apple plays its cards right, it could end up an online tv winner.

The latest report by Comscore shows that watching video on the internet viewing figures hit another record for September. The results were caused partly by TV season premieres.

Over 168 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Nearly 26 billion videos were viewed in September, as Google sites accounted for more than 40 percent of videos viewed online by Americans.

Google sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property in September with nearly 10.5 billion videos viewed. YouTube accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed at Google properties.

Hulu did well, it came in second showing a 20% rise from August figures with 583 million (2.2%). Next was Fox Interactive Media with 547 million videos viewed (2.1%) and Viacom Digital with 513 million (2%).

Other September Online TV Facts

• Leading video ad networks by actual delivered reach were: Tremor Media Video Network (19.9 percent penetration of online video viewers), BBE (16.3 percent penetration) and BrightRoll Video Network (14.9 percent penetration).
• 84.8% of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
• The average online video viewer watched 9.8 hours of video.
• 125.5 million viewers watched nearly 10.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (82.4 videos per viewer).
• 45.6 million viewers watched 424 million videos on MySpace.com (9.3 videos per viewer).
• The average Hulu viewer watched 15.1 videos, totaling 1 hour and 32 minutes of videos per viewer.
• The duration of the average online video was 3.8 minutes.

More than 168 million viewers watched an average of 154 videos per viewer during the month of September. Google sites attracted more than 126 million unique viewers during the month (82.7 videos per viewer), followed by Fox Interactive Media with 58 million viewers (9.4 videos per viewer) and Yahoo sites with 57 million viewers (7.5 videos per viewer).

Tremor Media was the top video ad network with a potential reach of 73 million viewers, or 43.3 percent of the total viewing audience. YuMe Video Network ranked second with a potential reach of 66 million viewers (39.4 % penetration) followed by Broadband Enterprises (BBE) with 63 million viewers (37.5%).

Interestingly, even though it was it second place, the Hulu share which was 583 million online videos shown throughout September only accounted for 2.2% of the online video market. Which does not sound so impressive.

So Youtube still blows everyone away, and even though Hulu have cemented the second place, who knows what the situation will be this time next year.