News Flash: More people get their news from the Net than from newspapers. While this will hardly count as news to most of our readers, the Pew Research Center seems surprised by the shift. In a survey of 1,489 adults in the U.S. conducted in early December, 40 percent said they get most of [...]

According to the latest government data, China now has 253 million Internet users, due to recent sharp growth - 56 percent from last year. The inevitable has happened: China now has more Internet users than the USA, which is at 223.1 million with 71% online penetration. The fact that the Chinese government is exercising very [...]

Shimon Sandler is a search marketing professional. He authors a blog at Shimonsandler.com
In this bad economy when many advertisers are slashing their online ad budgets, it behooves us all to review optimization tactics to ensure we make the most of dollars allocated to Search. What do you do when you are handed an AdWords account [...]

How much money are social networks making from advertising? Not nearly as much as estimated earlier this year. Back in May, eMarketer trimmed their estimate for 2008 social network advertising spending in the US to $1.4 billion. Today, they’ve lowered it once again, to $1.2 billion.
The cuts are more dramatic [...]

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Here it is: Google’s strategy to take over the world. Or at least, this is Google’s plan according to French consulting firm faberNovel, who summarize the Big G’s plot - from YouTube, to the Facebook threat, to competing with Microsoft, to Google’s iron [...]

Microsoft announced the hire of former ten-year Yahoo exec Dr. Qi Lu today as President of their Online Services Group. He’ll report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.
Here’s the email Ballmer sent to all Microsoft staff forty minutes ago:
From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:39 PM
To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG)
Subject: New Leader of Online [...]

Chris Lynn is a social media specialist, working with clients from the Marketing, Online Advertising, Mobile, Consumer Tech, and Social Media industries. He also edits socialTNT, a blog on new media, marketing and PR.
Over the last couple of months, Yahoo Buzz has slowly built up its features, seemingly setting its sights on top player [...]

Glam, the network of women’s (and now men’s too) content sites, has taken the hood off of its application platform, which debuted in private beta earlier this year. Essentially, it’s like an app store for publishers and advertisers – Glam bloggers can grab widgets for their sites, while marketers can buy ads in the [...]

The explosion of Flash content like widgets has created several complex problems, like how to index it in search engines, how to make it work on mobile, and how to track it. The latter is being addressed today at Adobe Max, where Google is announcing Analytics Tracking for Flash, which will let publishers track [...]

Wizzard Media announced this Monday their third-quarter results, which continued along their impressive track record of sustained growth for this year. Wizzard, the publicly traded podcast network, is still not in the black but continues to bring in more revenue than most other networks could dream of doing.
The year to date reported revenues that exceeded [...]