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  • Mobile Phones and Tablets Drive 6.8% of U.S. Digital Traffic in August

    According to a wealth of new data from comScore, non-computer traffic for the U.S. was nearly 7 percent in August, with the majority coming from mobile phones. The report also found that nearly half of tablet owners made or completed a purchase on their tablets.

  • Internet Ad Revenues up 23% in the First Half of 2011: Search, Display, Referrals Are up

    According to the latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US), Internet ad revenues rose to record levels in the first half of 2011. The year-over-year-growth was the fastest it’s been since the first half of 2007.

  • F’in Fraud

    For all the crap that we occasionally dish on the CPA network space, one thing we hopefully have never intimated is that running a network is easy. While we have no shortage of people who enter the space with no experience only to find ways to make impressive money, once they make the plunge to running a…

  • The Visionary Dilemma

    At some point in the future, October 5th will be called Steve Jobs day, and millions around the world will go to work in jeans and a black turtleneck in memory of a man that less than .0000001% of the population has ever met but seemingly 99% of the population has an immense feeling of adoration. His…

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  • Google Loses and Bing-Powered Search Gains in August; ‘Facebook’ Dominates Search Terms

    Google-powered search saw a month-over-month decline in market share in August, while Bing-powered search saw an increase, according to Compete. Meanwhile, separate data from Hitwise shows that “facebook” pervades the top search terms.

  • VEVO and Warner Music Are the Top YouTube Partner Channels in August

    According to new official metrics unveiled by comScore, VEVO was the top YouTube partner channel in August. Meanwhile, Google Sites remained the top U.S. online video content property, while Hulu led the way in terms of video ads viewed.

  • How We Use Social Media

    Recent numbers from NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey Company, offers some insight into why U.S. social media users visit these sites.

    According to the research, the top driver of social media use is to find/maintain…

  • The Newest Performance Marketing Powerhouse

    That the performance marketing space has two public companies makes watching the stock market a fairly easy but equally frustrating proposition. We have so few companies of scale, and watching their stocks go up and down but more often down than up only makes us feel as though our sector is the…

  • eMerchantPay Registers with the UK’s FSA as a Payment Institution

    London, UNITED KINGDOM (Sept 27 , 2011) — eMerchantPay, a leading provider of online payment processing solutions to merchants worldwide, has been registered as a Payment Institution by the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA United Kingdom). With this registration, eMerchantPay has been authorized to carry out…