Vice Media, The Onion Now Making Ads with Facebook

Wired: People watch videos on Facebook — a lot of videos. During its earnings call this week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the number of videos watched on Facebook now totals more than 4 billion per day — triple what was being watched on the social network last summer. With all those eyeballs trained on its moving pictures, the company is now moving quickly to make them pay. Facebook is now teaming up with seven popular media companies, including The Onion, Disney and Vice Media, to produce video ads for brands hoping to capture the attention of the social network’s 1.44 billion users.