Netflix received over 30 Emmy nominations today, including more than 10 each for "House of Cards" and "Orange Is The New Black." Nothing for Hulu or Amazon. But Crackle's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" starring Jerry Seinfeld was nominated, as was the "Between Two Ferns" episode with Zach Galifianakis interviewing President Obama for Funny or Die.

Base 79, an online video network founded by Ashley MacKenzie, son of former (London) Sun editor Kelvin, was sold for up to £50 million to Rightster, another  British online video start-up. Ashley got £7 million and Kelvin £5 million.

The Streamy Awards have added new categories for prizes including three aimed at Vine videos, and another one for television shows that have a notable presence online.

Digital video aggregator and publisher Digital Media Rights and Russia’s leading independent media company CTC Media have partnered to launch a collection of Russian TV series in the U.S. on Hulu and Hulu Plus.

Last year, YouTube made $3.5 billion for Google, according to a report (behind a paywall) in The Information. If accurate, that would have made the video unit profitable, but still a big disappointment for analysts -- many of whom thought YouTube brought in between $5 billion to $5.6 billion in revenue, last year. As GigaOm notes, “It’s clear that the video service has become a key focus for future growth beyond the company’s core AdSense and display ad business.” 

Also, young women are consuming more video over mobile devices, but are spending, on average, 15% less time each day online in front of a desktop or notebook computer, says a new study from the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau.

Music Vault is unlocking 13,000 concert videos on YouTube, including performances by Dylan, the Dead and Springsteen

Two long-distance runners in Philadelphia came to the same realization: The 30 million U.S. endurance athletes out there are not very well served online, and advertisers and event organizers do a poor job using online video to attract participants. So they formed a company to work on that. 

Thousands of video-content creators, viral-video stars and their fans attended the fifth annual VidCon at the Anaheim Convention Center. The three-day conference featured everything from panels featuring YouTube stars such as Rebecca Black to workshops on becoming an online celebrity.

1) Hasn't that shipped sailed? 2) Isn't that what the Internet was inevitably going to become?  According to an new Pew report,  Internet experts are more worried about the commercialization of the Internet than they are about surveillance or errant nation-states blocking services.