A year after IPO, Facebook still down 30% (but the future is bright)

A year ago today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg "rang the bell" to open trading in one of the most hotly-anticipated initial public offerings in history as Facebook hit the stock market. And promptly went splat.

Facebook’s coming video ads run the risk of ‘MySpacing’ the world’s most popular social network

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.

AdColony sees huge growth for video ads in mobile apps, with 1 billion views to date

The company has been setting revenue records for six quarters in a row.

Research on opt-in video ads: Consumers rely on Facebook less, don’t care about ad length

Who needs pre-roll ads? Opt-in ads are far more effective, Jun Group lays out some interesting research.

Funding Daily: Get graded on your big data intelligence

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Video ad startup BrightRoll nabs $30M round

Digital video advertising startup BrightRoll has secured a new $30 million round of funding, the company announced today.

BrightRoll is a video advertising network that boasts over 70 million unique viewers per month, which is more than Hulu, ABC, CBS, …