Good news to everyone in the online marketing arena according to statistics published on USA Today (Stats acquired from PQ Media). We can expect a sharp increase in ‘New Media’ spending in the next 4 years despite all the economic worries.
“…companies will spend more than $160.8 billion in 2012 — up 82% from 2008 — [...]

Despite the obvious problems facing the US economy, market research firms are predicting that, US online advertising will continue to grow through 2008. Online ad spending will rise by 23% in 2008!
Search will account for the largest portion of online ad spending in 2008, at 40%. (great news for SEO companies!)
Rich media and video advertising [...]

ComScore recently released some nice data showing the international traffic trends for Facebook and MySpace. As you can see from the graph below, Facebook is growing at a very rapid rate and recently passed MySpace in total daily unique worldwide visitors. The graph below shows absolute worldwide visitors per day and Facebook passed MySpace already [...]

Click fraud is at an all time high in India. This is because of an industry which exists in India of “work from home” individuals who can generate “easy earnings” by clicking Google AdSense ads.To the left, you will see a newspaper clipping which shows an ad to recruit these types of networks. How does [...]

I just cam across this nice stats plugin for wordpress blogs which I would like to share with you as it seems like a very nice plugin to have installed on your wordpress blog for quick and easy viewing of you website statistics.
You can then view your blog stats directly from your wordpress admin interface [...]

This is a nice image created by LeMonde.fr, which nicely illustrates the popularity of the different social networking sites across the world in different countries. This is great data for geotargeting your social media content.

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Here are some of my observations based on the above data for you. Make sure you [...]

WELL Well well … What I am about to discuss will make a lot of webmasters very happy and at the same time many ‘Search Engine Ranking Report’ companies are about to go out of business!
It seems that Google never ceases to amaze us and the Google Webmaster team have recently launched a services within [...]

Here are some interesting statistics open to discussion. A recent Netcraft report published a survey study showing the total number of websites and blogs is around 156 million.

Technorati claims that the total number of blogs alone is currently in excess of 100 million so there this data is open to speculation and interpretation. Putting all [...]