Google Analytics has just announced a new set of reports (and functionality) that will enable websites to track social interaction with their content. This comes as a welcomed addition to the new Google+1 button, as it now enables one to measure the impact of social interactions in and outside websites (either through a Facebook like, …

Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms in the U.S. and are responsible for 23.6 percent of local ad expenditures. Yet SMBs only accounted for 14.1 percent of total online ad spending last year, according to BIA/Kelsey. To date, no new media (defined as Internet-enabled) company has been able to …

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in May with 65.5 percent of search queries conducted. Read More…

On Tuesday, Google introduced a social networking service called the Google+ project — which happens to look a lot like Facebook. The service, which is initially available to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links, much as …

Some large national advertisers have tapped daily deal sites or mobile check-in services like Groupon and foursquare to take part in the hyperlocal ad market, but many see those options as primarily benefiting small local businesses that need them to get traffic in the door. Large brands do want in on the local action, though, …