you can see that every category showed growth, with social networking and map usage on mobile nearly doubling. Weather and news of all kinds grew in the 30% – 40% range. Even IMing got a double digit boost.

Location-based services also showed double digit increases with maps, restaurants, and again, weather coming out as the big winners.

U.S. consumers also now spend an average of four hours and 20 minutes per month watching video on the web, a full hour and 10 minutes above what they spent in Q1 2010.

those who watch the least amount of traditional TV — particularly those in the 18 to 34 age demographic — are watching more online video.

adults ages 35 to 49 comprised the largest segment (27%) of the Internet video audience. Meanwhile, 25 to 34-year-olds accounted for the highest percentage (30%) of mobile video viewership.

Although only 22% of local merchants say they have used Facebook Ads, nearly two-thirds of those who have done so (64.9%) say they would use the service again

65.7% of surveyed local merchants say they use Facebook for marketing.

ease of use (66.5%), followed by the flexibility to pause and restart campaigns as needed (64.8%).

Lower your impression share so ads appear less often.

Ads with a purpose or a clever hook work better than ads with no purpose.

Experts suggest 7 to 10 images per campaign.

Facebook ranked as one of the Top 10 online advertising properties earlier this year.

Of the money going to online buys, nearly half goes to search and a quarter goes to display.

At least a quarter of social media users connect with businesses along with their friends

43 percent of firms are successfully using social networking to win new customers, up eight percentage points from last year’s survey.

By 2012, 20% of all search engine queries will be via a mobile device

200 million Facebook users access the social network via their mobile

1. Ensure a Mobile Optimized Website

Use the right blogging platform.

WordPress. It’s powerful, easy to learn and has plenty of SEO plugins that increase your chances of topping the search engine results.

Own your domain.

precisely measurable ROI statistics including consumer participation per the dollar spent.

easy for consumers to use and understand.

Texting is mainstream.

On a busy day, Twitter gets about 170 million tweets, 1.25% means 2.125 million tweets daily link to pictures from third-party services

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans have internet access.

More than half of Americans ages 12+ have a profile on one or more social networking sites.

Social networking use is growing most in the 35-44 age demographic.

1. 93% of adult US Internet users are on Facebook. (source: BlogHer, April 2011) 2. One out of every eight minutes online is spent on Facebook. (source: ComScore, February 2011) 3. The average Facebook user spends more than 11 hours per month on Facebook. (sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010 & Facebook Press Room, 2011) 4. Facebook is overtaking Google and Yahoo in total time spent online. (source: ComScore, August 2011) 5. Facebook has become the top choice for social sign-in. (source: Janrain, April 2011) 6. Facebook has become the preferred way to share content online, second only to email—for now. (source: Chadwick Martin Bailey, September 2010) 7. The average number of "likes" per post on a brand's Facebook page is 54. The average number of comments per post is 9. (source: Visibli, April 2011) 8. More than half of B2B marketers agree that Facebook is an effective marketing tool. (source: Outsell, December 2009) 9. More than half of small businesses agree that Facebook is beneficial to their business. (source: Ad-ology, November 2010) 10. More than 1/3 of marketers say Facebook is "critical" or "important" to their business. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011) 11. The number of marketers who say Facebook is critical or important to their business has increased 83% in two years. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011) 12. 67% of B2C and 41% of B2B companies that use Facebook for marketing have acquired a customer through this channel. (source: HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report 2011)

Social Media now reaches the majority of Americans 12+, with 52% having a profile on one or more social networks.

Twitter is as familiar to Americans as Facebook (with 92% and 93% familiarity, respectively); however, Twitter usage stands at 8% of Americans 12+.

56% of frequent social network users own smartphones, and 64% of frequent social networkers have used a mobile phone to update their status on one or more social networks.

Want to accumulate as many followers as possible? Then tweet a lot

But if your goal is to drive more traffic to your site, you should show a little more restraint;

It turns out that time is often the afternoons, when blogs and news sites are slower, and the weekend, when they’re all but asleep.

More than 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

37% increase in video uploaded per minute in the past six months and a 100% increase from last year.

3 billion views in one day — a 50% increase compared to last year