Online advertising spending in the UK has overtaken television expenditure for the first time, a report has said. Online spending grew 4.6% to £1.752bn in the first half of 2009, while TV spending shrank 16.1% to £1.639bn. Overall advertising fell 16% compared with the same period in 2008, said the study by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

In 2008, global advertising spend in the social networking arena exceeded US $2 Billion, with a global spend of over US $4 Billion forecast by 2011

More than 60 Billion Internet searches worldwide every month - 37 Billion through Google, more than all of the other major Search Engines combined!

Facebook has just announced it has reached 300 million monthly active users around the world. Facebook’s global audience has doubled since the beginning of the year, adding 150 million new users since January. Notably, over 71% of Facebook’s userbase resides outside the United States – as of today, the company reports 85 million active American users. Sept 2009.