September 18, 2013 - e-Strategy Trends

12% of smart phone owners use services such as Foursquare to “check in” to certain locations or to share their locations with their friends.

After declining by 4.8% last year, total Q1 ad sales this year dropped by 6.2%, from $1.83 billion to $1.72 billion.

After declining by 4.8% last year, total Q1 ad sales this year dropped by 6.2%, from $1.83 billion to $1.72 billion.

After growing by 3.2 million between 2006 and 2011, the number of Americans enrolled in college (undergraduate and graduate) fell by almost half-a-million last year.

During the second quarter of the year, 17.5% of US rights-managed online video views occurred on a mobile phone (13.2%) or tablet (4.3%), almost double the 9.2% from Q2 2012.

51% of Americans aged 13-54 now watch TV programs or movies using streaming video at least once a week

61% of directly placed ads stayed in-view for at least 1 second during the fist half (H1) of 2013, up from 56% in the second half of 2012 and 49.9% in H1 2012.