According to the latest edition of Trends & Tudes from Harris Interactive Youth & Education Research, young consumers are spending more than they did last year, serving as a reminder that this segment is one that marketers should bear in mind as we head toward 2011.

The latest figures from Experian Hitwise show that Facebook was the most visited website ranked by visits for the week ending Dec. 11, while Google continues to dominate the search landscape.

If they haven’t already, in just over a week from now, most people’s minds will start to think about anything but work. That’s right. We’re coming up to the end of another year, and like so many before…

It’s a great year, when a company that almost sold for six billion dollars and reached a billion dollar valuation faster than any other takes second place to a seven year old company. (Then again, there’s…

Double Play Media will be hosting the second annual Affiliate Summit Tip-Off Party at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas next month. The event will take place on Monday January 10th, 2011 and is being put on in cooperation with industry leaders BMI Elite, Hybryd Ads, and Infinite Traffic.

Veteran Interactive marketer Jim Lillig joins digital agency Wheaten & Wheaten as their Executive Vice President after leaving Offervault and OfferMobi. His addition to the team signals Wheaten’s ambitions to move into the mobile space as well as shore up key Fortune 500 advertiser accounts.

According to eMarketer, the continually struggling economy will direct ad dollars toward the Internet. This means that after shrinking in 2009, U.S. online ad spending is set to see healthy growth for the next several years.

According to Kenshoo’s “2010 Online Holiday Shopping Report,” search advertising budgets and total online sales transactions were both up during the 26-day period ending with Cyber Monday from their levels last year.

Despite the Internet’s heralded usefulness for targeting ads and reaching the right consumers, a recent Adweek Media/Harris Poll survey found that the majority of adults in the U.S. say they disregard Internet ads more than they ignore ads on other media.

According to the latest MobiLens report from comScore, smart phones are now owned by a quarter of all mobile subscribers, and Android is continuing its greedy surge in the smart-phone OS market.