Mediagazer: For valley, it's Christmas in July (Trevon Milliard/Idaho Mountain …)

6:40 AM ET, July 16, 2010

Top News:

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

New Data Shows Hulu Serves More Video Ads Than Google — More Than 566 Million Video Ads in June, According to New Numbers From ComScore — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Hulu is far from the biggest video site on the web; YouTube holds that distinction by a wide margin.

comScore, Inc.:

comScore Launches Video Metrix 2.0 to Measure Evolving Web Video Landscape — Next Generation Online Video Measurement Service Features Video Ad Reporting — New Metrics Enable Cross-Media Comparability and Help Improve Monetization of the Online Video Medium

Discussion: MediaPost and TechCrunch

Joshua Cohen / Tubefilter News:
Will Hulu's ‘Ad Selector’ Become Online Video's Advertising Standard?

Discussion: digiday:DAILY

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Are Newspapers Sticking to a Premium Strategy Amid Digital Disruption? — Six months into 2010, this is shaping up to be a better year for newspapers. One might be cheered simply by the pace and scope of experimentation in 2010: digital futurism headlining the Newspaper Association …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Newsonomics of the dead cat bounce

Discussion: Romenesko and Gannett Blog

Matea Gold / Show Tracker:

PBS dominates News and Documentary Emmy nominations, but CBS also scores big — PBS flexed its usual strength when the News and Documentary Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, racking up 37 nods for its coverage of Taliban youth, the death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan …

Discussion: Romenesko, Beet.TV and Readers' Representative …

Kevin Allocca / TVNewser:
Letterman Extortionist Nominated for News & Doc Emmy

Discussion: rbr.com, The Huffington Post, Moraes on TV, Mediaite, New York Observer, The Wire, Gawker, The Wrap and International Media

New York Times:

The Google Algorithm — Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for half of their traffic. When Google engineers tweak its supersecret algorithm — as they do hundreds of times a year …

Discussion: GigaOM, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, MediaPost, Tech Trader Daily, Hot Air, Silicon Alley Insider, Hit & Run and Free Press, more at Techmeme »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wait, Google Is Responding To Algorithm Criticism Behind A Wall?

Discussion: Google Public Policy Blog and Technology Liberation Front, more at Techmeme »

Emma Hall / AdAge:

Virgin Plans New Magazine as IPad App if Advertisers Sign Up — Billionaire Branson's Daughter Holly Is in Charge of Project — LONDON (AdAge.com) — Virgin is planning to extend its brand into consumer magazines with the launch of a new title, Maverick, which will be available as an app for the iPad, iPhone and eventually, Android.

Dylan Stableford / The Wrap:

Penthouse Owner Makes $210M Bid for Playboy — Marc Bell, owner of Penthouse magazine and FriendFinder networks, made his promised bid on Playboy Enterprises on Thursday, offering to pay $210 million for the struggling bunny brand. — Bell's bid is effectively $25 million …

Discussion: ffn.com, MarketWatch, Folio, Romenesko, MinOnline, Multichannel, Gawker, FishbowlNY and The Wire

Richard Lawson / Gawker:

The Full Social Network Trailer: Creepy — Here's the first full-length trailer for The Social Network, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's movie about the creation of social wonder/ill, the Facebook. Thanks largely to a brilliant song choice, the trailer is eerily evocative.

Discussion: Speakeasy, PAPERMAG, MediaPost, TechCrunch, New York Observer, The Wrap and parislemon

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Blog Networks Try One More Time to Turn Local Journalism Into Cash — Can building a network of local bloggers help turn online journalism into a money-making proposition? Two new media ventures are hoping that it can, and have partnered with a startup called GrowthSpur to try and make that hope become a reality.

Discussion: Journal Register Company and TBD

Trevon Milliard / Idaho Mountain Express & Guide:

For valley, it's Christmas in July — Rising tide of Allen & Co. conference lifts boats of all businesses — The week following the Fourth of July isn't of much significance for most people. But for anyone in the Wood River Valley service industry—restaurant workers, fly-fishing guides …

Don Terry / CJR:

Justice for John Conroy — John Conroy spent years exposing police torture in Chicago. Now the alleged leader is on trial, and the reporter is laid off. — If life were fair and the gods of journalism just, I would be able to report to you that when John Conroy was laid off …

Alan Allnutt / Montreal Gazette:

Gazette to go Web only on Sundays — The Sunday Edition of The Montreal Gazette — MONTREAL - After long and serious consideration, we have decided that The Gazette will cease publishing a print version of the paper on Sundays as of Aug. 8. — However, The Gazette will continue …

Discussion: FishbowlNY

Greg Marx / CJR:

Winning the Morning, Missing the Point — Politico buries the lede in its big Obama story — Politico bigwigs John Harris and Jim VandeHei have a big thinkpiece out this morning headlined, “Why Obama Loses by Winning.” As an artifact of media strategy, it's a classic example …

Discussion: The Politico, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Hot Air and Brendan Nyhan

Jarvis Coffin / Burst Media Company Blog:

The Washington Post Company Buys iCurrent: Old Media is Dead. Long Live Old Media. — The Washington Post Company reported (see story in Paid Content) that it has acquired iCurrent, a company in the business of helping internet users assemble and organize online information according to their specific interests.

Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent, VentureBeat and Guardian

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:

Bros Icing Bros: Dear New York Media, Smirnoff Would Like To Thank You For Selling This Stupid Drinking Game — Have you heard of the once-legendary and now-kinda-dead urban terrorism drinking game Bros Icing Bros? It involves the fermented sugarpiss known as Smirnoff Ice, your friends, and casual alcoholism.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Download Me, Amadeus! Sony Set to Open a Classical iTunes — What's holding you back from buying classical music downloads? Is it because they're too hard to find on iTunes? Or is it because the tracks don't sound that good? — Sony Music thinks it has an answer …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

BuzzFeed Helps AOL Spread The Buzz — AOL is getting some help spreading the buzz from New York City startup BuzzFeed. In an interesting experiment in viral marketing on its own site, which is a memetracker showing stories and videos going viral on the Web, BuzzFeed is highlighting related AOL articles and videos.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog

Chris Beckmann / Google News Blog:

Google News changes reflect your feedback — Two weeks ago we gave the Google News homepage a new look and feel with enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was our biggest since Google News launched in beta in 2002. — Some of you told us that you really liked it …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, more at Techmeme »