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Robust sales of electronics are reviving the retail market this holiday season as US consumers rush to find bargains, especially on flat-panel TV sets, according to America's Research Group. ARG has accordingly revised its retail holiday forecast upward to -1.2% growth, up from the -2.9% it had forecast in early November.

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US online holiday spending reached $19.9 billion for the first 41 days of the November-December holiday season, a 3% increase over the same period last year, according to comScore.

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Americans 65+ comprise less than 10% of the active Internet, but their numbers are growing: In the last five years, the number of seniors actively using the Internet grew 55% to 17.5 million in November 2009, up from 11.3 million in November 2004, according to a survey by Nielsen.

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Companies tend not to understand what people want from online branded communities––or the role that the brand plays in fulfilling those needs, according to a study by ComBlu.

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Americans can't live without the Internet and television; they prefer advertisements that are innovative and playful; and they are open to new technologies that monitor their media usage if privacy is ensured, according to a recent study by Synovate.

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Google continued to dominate search, accounting for 71.6% of all US searches in the four weeks ended November 28, 2009, a 1.4% increase from a month earlier, according to Experian Hitwise. Yahoo followed with 15.4% of searches, Bing with 9.4%, and Ask.com with 2.7%. The remaining 52 search engines accounted for 1.1% of US searches.

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US online holiday spending reached $16 billion during the first 36 days of the November-December holiday season, an increase of 3% compared with the same period last year, with shoppers being influenced by social media, according to comScore.

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Annual global advertising expenditure will have declined 10.2% by the end of 2009––the worst annual drop in modern times––but is forecast to stabilize and grow 0.9% in 2010, according to projections by ZenithOptimedia.

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The integration of social media into American lives has created a world that is simultaneously expanding and narrowing, making it easy to create connections with people and businesses around the world—and in the immediate vicinity—while sometimes behaving in ways one wouldn't in person, according to a recent study by Euro RSCG Worldwide.

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Contrary to forecasts of an improved holiday shopping season, 2009 retail sales are down from last year as concerns over jobs cause Americans to spend less and wait for bargain prices, according to research by America's Research Group (ARG) and UBS.

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In the third quarter of 2009, Americans' consumption of new media formats grew at a brisk pace: DVR use increased 21% year over year, while the use of online video increased 34%, according to Nielsen's latest A2/M2 Three Screen Report.

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Nearly eight out of ten US mobile content users have difficulty trying to access content due to slow page loads, phone/interface issues, and irrelevant content, according to a recent study conducted by TNS Global on behalf of Xiam Technologies. Moreover, mobile users report that 27% of the time, they are unsuccessful in finding what they are looking for.

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Fully three-quarters (77%) of Facebook pages––public pages set up by brands, media outlets, and celebrities––have fewer than 1,000 fans and only 4% of Facebook pages have more than 10,000 fans, according to a study by Sysomos.

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Online spending during the first 34 days of the November-December 2009 holiday season reached $15.3 billion, an increase of 4% compared with the same period last year, with large online retailers benefiting most from that growth, according to comScore.

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By 2013, the geotargeted display advertising market is forecast to reach $1.9 billion, up from the $879 million spent on banners in 2008—a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16%—according to BIA/Kelsey.

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Signaling continued restraint in marketing spending, the revenue for three key B2B media platforms declined during the third quarter of 2009 at approximately the same rates as during the first half of the year, according to American Business Media's Business Information Network.