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A white paper from TNS Mobile Life offers a glimpse into the mobile services that are set to see strong growth in 2011.

The latest S.M.A.R.T. Report from Millennial Media reveals that Android smartphones account for more than half of all ad impressions on smartphones. It also revealed the top three advertiser trends in the first quarter of 2011, which included local advertising needs.

A recent study from Nielsen and AOL found that more than half of people’s time is spent with published content, while nearly a quarter is spent with social media. “This prompted the question: How much of a user’s communications also involve content?”

According to a recent study from BrightRoll, budget increases for online video outpace all other online categories, as money is shifted from TV and display-ad budgets.

Mothers will get noticeably more love this year, according to a forecast from the National Retail Federation. The NRF expects total spending to surpass $16 billion this year.

Facebook served up more than a quarter of all display ad impressions in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to numbers from comScore.

According to Mobitrove, which delivers data, research, case studies and other information to the mobile marketing industry, total spending on U.S. mobile marketing was $9.3 billion in 2010. This number is set to explode to $56.5 billion in 2015.