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  • Need a friend? Brisbane-based uSocial will find thousands of them on Facebook for you—at a price.

  • Fidelity.com was by far the leading online-trading website in July, followed by those of Scottrade and ING's ShareBuilder, virtually tied for second place, according to Nielsen NetView data.

  • Total measured advertising expenditures in the first six months of 2009 fell 14.3% from a year earlier, to $60.87 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Q2 spending was down 13.9% from last year—the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline.

  • The reputations of several industries—car manufacturers and banks prominent among them—plummeted in the last year.

  • The financial services industry accounted for the most online image-based ad impressions in July, with nearly 36 billion. Next were Web media and telecommunications, followed by retail goods and services, according to Nielsen.

  • Social networking sites delivered 21% of all US online display ad impressions in June 2009, according to a recent comScore study, with MySpace and Facebook together accounting for more than 80% of impressions in the social networking category.

  • Yahoo News led the way among online current events and global news destinations in July, followed by the CNN's and MSNBC's digital networks, according to Nielsen NetView data.

  • Facebook users now number 300 million—nearly the size of the US population—CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced. His even bigger news: Facebook is now in the black, much earlier than anticipated.

  • Facebook use among the 55+ set increased 25% from July 4 to August 4, after growing an astounding 532% in the previous six months.

  • Spending on word-of-mouth (WoM) marketing slowed in 2008, nevertheless increasing 14.2%, to $1.54 billion. It is on pace to increase another 10.2% in 2009, placing WoM among the fastest-growing advertising and marketing segments.

  • Adobe will buy Web analytics firm Omniture in a move to enable Adobe customers to better measure and monetize their digital assets, said Adobe.

  • The number of Americans watching mobile video jumped 70% from 2Q08 to 2Q09, and TV viewership increased slightly in the same period. Moreover, 57% of consumers at least once a month watch TV and go online simultaneously.

  • Map sites led the way among the top online travel properties in July, namely Google Maps and erstwhile category leader Mapquest, followed by travel-planning sites Expedia and TripAdvisor, according to Hitwise.

  • Marketers face a bit of a quandary in deciding how social to be. There is a seemingly endless number of social networks, all with conversations that might be relevant to the business. When it comes to email, the issue becomes trickier still: If supporting every social network out there is too much, but integrating no social activity is a big miss, how do you decide which networks to include in your email marketing?

  • Despite the emphasis on and progress in marketing performance measurement and management over the past decade, research continues to show that the link between marketing and the business still needs to be stronger and clearer.

  • What are so-called Trust Agents? Trust Agents have established themselves as non-sales-oriented, non-high-pressure marketers. They are digital natives using the Web to be genuine and to humanize their business. They're interested in people (like prospective customers, employees, and colleagues), and they have realized that the tools that enable more unique, robust communication also allow more business opportunities for everyone.

  • Small-agency quirks don't have to be fatal. In fact, many can be fixed by applying simple technologies that provide big-business tools while allowing firms to stay true to their small-business core. The following eight cures to the common small-marketing-firm ailments will help ensure that your company doesn't fall into the "too small" trap.

  • Streaming TV shows and movies is at an all-time high in the US, with young adults (18-24) leading the way.

  • The triumvirate of eBay, Amazon.com, and Craigslist sat atop the shopping and classifieds website rankings, with eBay clearly the leader, according to Hitwise data.

  • A recent study identifies the back-to-school items parents are most likely to buy and the best channels to use to reach kids.