Get it together Hulu.
Conan O’Brien hosts the 2025 Oscars. REUTERS“Hey Hulu, get your shit together!!! No one can watch #TheOscars right now on your service!” one person wrote on X.
Another fan tweeted, “#Hulu owes me a damn refund right about now. All that advertisement about streaming the #Oscars2025, only for the site to not work.”
Hulu is streaming the 2025 Oscars. AP
“Y’all better give everyone a free month at the very least. App crashing and logging people out on Oscar night. This sucks a–,” someone else said.
Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, March 2, 2025. REUTERSA different fan tweeted the video of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s “Wicked” medley that kicked off the show and said, “I MISSED THIS BECAUSE HULU’S F–K A–.”
“I wanted to see the Wicked performance, f–k you hulu,” another tweet read.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform at the 2025 Oscars. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP“Me trying to understand how Hulu a billion dollar company and is down,” someone else wrote.
“Hulu why are you tweeting about the oscars as if your own stream ain’t working,” said another fan.
Another viewer tweeted, “New rule: if a streaming version plans to stream a live event and botches it, all subscribers should get a free month of their current plan. Looking at you,@hulu.”
Roughly 40 minutes into the award show, Hulu Support tweeted, “Having issues logging in? If so – we’re on it! Our team is actively investigating, and we hope to have things back up and running soon.”
A view of Conan O’Brien onstage hosting the Oscars. ALLISON DINNER/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockThe digital service monitoring site Down Detector announced that over 30,000 users reported issues with their Hulu accounts during the Oscars. That number peaked at 34,868 around 30 minutes into the show.
This is the first time that the Oscars have streamed live on Hulu. The show is also airing on ABC. Conan O’Brien is hosting.
Conan O’Brien at the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025. Getty ImagesLast week, Disney confirmed to Deadline that it sold all of its advertising inventory for the Oscars telecast.
A 30-second ad spot reportedly cost between $1.7 and $2.3 million. The cost is the same for the ABC telecast and the Hulu stream.
The 97th annual Academy Awards are honoring the biggest films of last year, including “Wicked,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Anora” and “A Complete Unknown.”
