Standards for video ads were announced late last year, and some are saying this is a win for content publishers, as well as for advertisers.

In the not-so-great news for people favoring the content subscription model, Newsday reports 35 subscribers after launching a paywall-based website.  As someone who grew up reading Newsday every day, it seems they will have to tweak their formula a bit in the complicated online & mobile monetization ecosystem.

And OneRiot is making trending ads visible to all.

Facebook continues to grow and many offer ways that they can be a money-making machine.  Among those include social gaming, such as via the relatively new Facebook payments.  Online social gaming remains a viable money engine (the link includes a video of an interview with Gurbaksh Chahal of gWallet).