Lou Mastria, Executive Director, DAA

"2012 was the year that the DAA Industry Self-Regulatory Program became the standard for responsible data use for intelligent online advertising. We see this expanding on three fronts in 2013. 1: Globally, Canada will join the list of countries implementing DAA's self-regulation; 2: Channel-wise, we will export the DAA principles to the Mobile App environment; and 3: Our efforts to increase Consumer awareness - including recognition of the Ad Options Icon, will accelerate. We already achieve more than 13 million uniques to the Your Ad Choices site, and we expect that to pass 20 million uniques in the coming months, with more consumers gaining a greater understanding of the online advertising ecosystem through the DAA Industry Self-Regulatory Program."

Russell Glass, CEO and Co-Founder,...

In October 2012, 183 million U.S. Internet users watched more than 37 billion online content videos, while video ad views reached nearly 11 billion. (comScore) YouTube was responsible for a large portion of those views, but not all of them. Online video is growing all across the internet and on mobile and it can be a money-maker for small business.

On one side, business' can bring in new customers with informative videos and increase brand awareness. Then there's the business of video - earning money from ads and becoming a YouTube star.

I know that getting started with video can be intimidating, so I talked went to Jay Miletsky, CEO of MyPod Studios for some advice. MyPod is a portal that aggregates quality video under content categories with each brand getting its own "Pod." No piano playing cats and grandpop falling off the...