TV (Watchers) Everywhere: Hulu 'On Track' For A Million Subscribers This Year: Hulu Plus, the subscription service that launched last November, says it is 'on track' to sign up more than a million paying customers by the end of this year. It’s a far cry from the 20 million people who subscribe to ideological twin Netflix, but it’s a heck of a start — and it comes amid fertile innovation around the flat screen TV you take everywhere, otherwise known as the iPad.