More time on mobile. You knew that, Did you know that millenials on mobile spend an hour each day on Facebook? There is a free report from Comscore at this link with lots of great detail.

Local marketing experts rank the most important factors that influence Google’s local search algorithm. They evaluated more that 200 signals for local search presence. Did you know there were that many? And that’s why search optimization isn’t going anywhere despite mobile.

Google continues broadening its travel advertising offerings in the hotel segment. In addition to information upgrades in the US, Google is adding 24 countries to the program.

Still obsessed with YouTube views as the key metric for knowing whether a video really connected with your audience? Not so fast, says ad agency Solve, which embarked on an experiment recently to see whether it could make literally the most uncreative video go viral. HINT: Views is not the metric you are looking for.

Links & images make up the majority of Facebook’s content, but VIDEOS (not video links, but uploaded videos) receive 23% more engagements that images and more than double those of plain status messages.

You may want to consider moving to paid anti-virus software after AVG announced that it will start selling “aggregate” browsing information for its free product.

Pinterest reached a big milestone with their announcement of 100 million active accounts each month. The site continues growing as more people find unique uses for what is essentially a social bookmarking site. Does your organization have a Pinterest strategy, and if not, would creating one also create profit?

You only need to have liked the movie Animal House to appreciate this. You may reognize 1 or 2, but you’ll get credits Animal House-style after the commercial runs.

Both social networks are now getting more than LinkedIn or Twitter. 2015-2016 Social strategy: pick one, start learning it and begin building credibility for your org there.

The Washington Post is showing pop-ups overlayed on top of articles to users who have an ad blocker enabled and are actively blocking ads. Unless your brand is as strong as the Post’s, don’t try this on your site. (P.S. YouTube is testing this too…)

Google’s increase in health conditions shown directly to users means sites that receive traffic about health conditions might see their trafffic decrease. Google will now feature 900 diseases and health conditions in the search results.

Bank of America and director Christopher Guest teamed up for a hilarious sequence of TV ads mocking the ad industry as only Guest could. Half of them feature Billy Idol. Did you ever expect Mr. White Wedding would work for a giant bank? Me either.