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  • Nearly 3 in 4 U.S. Android Smartphone Users Access Facebook Website or App via Their Phones

    According to The NPD Group, almost 75 percent of Android smartphone users in the U.S. accessed Facebook’s app and website via their phones in March.

    In March, nearly three-quarters of U.S. Android smartphone users accessed the social network’s app…

  • Coupons, Giveaways and Sweepstakes Get the Most Entries and Facebook Engagement

    According to a report from Wildfire titled “5 Best Practices for Increasing Earned Media: Proven Facebook Campaign Types that Triple Sharing and Participation,” coupons, giveaways and sweepstakes get the most engagement on Facebook.

  • Nearly 4 out of 10 Mobile Commerce Users Spend More Than $21 a Month via Mobile

    According to “The IAB Mobile Phone Shopping Diaries,” a study conducted by On Device Research, mobile commerce is mostly about getting the best price and saving money. Also, about 4 in 10 mobile commerce users spend more than $21 per month via their mobile…

  • Americans Viewed a Record 9.5 Billion Video Ads in April

    According to the latest numbers from comScore Video Metrix, a record 9.5 billion video ads were viewed by American online video viewers in April, with Hulu leading the way.

  • Life After The Facebook IPO

    Six plus years. Two books. One movie. Millions of pages of press coverage. Hundreds of millions of dollars in private funding. Trillions upon trillions of bytes of data. Almost a billion users worldwide. More than $2bn in revenues. The…

  • The not-Steve JOBS Act

    At the beginning of the year, some of the most influential websites came together in order to raise awareness and, more importantly to them, ensure that a piece of legislation did not become law. While we had heard of the two bills…

  • Affiliate Ball New York ASE signs a Beastie Boy, Ice-T & Coco

    There is big news and a lot of hype swirling around the Affiliate Ball. Neverblue stepped up their marketing game by securing the “title” sponsorship for this event and will now have the appropriate nomenclature of “Neverblue Presents The Affiliate Ball”.

  • Photo and Video: Fastest Growing Mobile App Category

    According to recent numbers released by Flurry, photo and video apps make up the fastest growing app category by time per active user. The company also notes the rise of smaller competitors to YouTube in the mobile video category.

  • Digital Moms vs. Digital Dads: Online, Mobile and Social Behaviors

    Two separate infographics from Nielsen and OnlineSchools.com offer insights into the different ways moms and dads use the Internet, mobile devices and social networks. Moms, for instance, are more likely than the average American to visit Pinterest, while dads have more online friends than moms.

  • Google Powered Nearly 7 out of 10 Organic Searches in April

    According to comScore’s latest qSearch analysis of the U.S. search engine market, Google powered nearly 70 percent of all organic searches in April, leaving Bing with about 26 percent of organic searches.