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A new report released today by Efficient Frontier shows that overall search advertising spend is beginning to stabilize as the economy slows its freefall.
Overall U.S. advertising spend dropped slightly in Q2 2009, however the rate of decline is slowing. In contrast to the reduction in spend is advertiser’s ROI, which recently grew by 12 percentage points to 129%.
Overall search spend has been quite reflective of the…

ComScore have released the latest video statistics for December 2008, which shows that Americans watched a record 14.3 billion videos during the month. Nearly 150 million U.S. internet users watched an average of 96 videos each in December.
As you might have guessed, Google lead the growth with YouTube.com which accounted for over 41% of overall video views. Fox Interactive (who owns myspace.com) came in second with only…
Google and Yahoo! have continued to dominate online search in December 06, with both posting slight increases over the competition. Google managed to increase its market share by 0.4% from November 06, while Yahoo! posted a slightly lower increase of 0.3%.
According to comScore’s monthly qSearch analysis, Google and Yahoo! were the only search engines to post positive growth, as others let their market share slip slightly.…