Marketing Friday : Links of News, Insights and Research #1

Information is the one of key of business. Here some interesting information in the online world for the last couple days.

• Google sites still lead the search marketing world. There are more than 113 billion searches conducted worldwide in July 2009, representing a 41% increase vs. the same period last year, according to an analysis of the global search market by comScore, Inc.
• Social network are really on the rise. More that 20% of all display ads viewed online on social networking sites, with MySpace and Facebook combining to deliver more than 80% of ads for the social networking category, according to June 2009 comScore study of US online display advertising on social networking sites.
• Mobile Video Audience Grows 70% in Q2 2009. The average American now watches an all-time high of more than 141 minutes of TV per month, and mobile and online video consumption are up significantly in the second quarter of 2009,  according to Nielsen’s latest A2/M2 Three Screen Report, which measures video consumption across TV, the internet and mobile devices.
• Twitter Overtakes MySpace in UK
• Men’s Underwear Index Reflects State of Economy
• 50 Things Being Killed by the Internet
• McKinsey: How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0
• Only 70% of Canadian Online Searches are Successful
• Bing Most Successful for Canadian Searches
• 85% of Australians Read Catalogues