THAT online advertising spending will surpass print media spending for the first time this year, according to a new forecast from eMarketer.
Online ad spending in the U.S. grew 23 percent to $32 billion in 2011 and will grow another 23 percent to more than $39 billion this year, eMarketer reports. Magazine and newspaper ad spending will dip 6.1 percent to $36 billion in 2012.
Online advertising’s eclipse of print, Advertising Age observes, represents “a watershed in the media business.”
THAT the tea party has a higher favorability rating among voters in key swing states than the Occupy Wall Street movement, a new poll reveals.
The survey by pollsters GS Strategy Group found that the tea party’s rating tops OWS’s by at least 10 percentage points in Florida, Ohio, Nevada, and Virginia, by 8.6 points in Wisconsin, and 5.7 points in New Mexico.
Respondents in those states also said by an overwhelming margin that government is “the bigger source of America’s problems” than banks on Wall Street.
THAT deaths related to organized crime in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of last year exceeded the number of civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan.
From January through September 2011, 2,276 people were killed in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico, according to the Mexican government.
Over nearly the same period — January through October 2011 — 2,177 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, the Congressional Research Service reported.
The drug-related murder rate was about 67 for every 100,000 inhabitants in Chihuahua last year, compared to seven for every 100,000 people in Afghanistan.
Chihuahua includes Ciudad Juarez, a border city located across from El Paso, Texas, that is the deadliest city in Mexico.