More than 9 in 10 college students claim to use their smartphone, tablet or computer at the same time as they’re watching TV, including 49% who do so every day, according to a study from re:fuel. The study, which finds college students’ Netflix use (63%) to be almost as prevalent as their pay-TV subscriptions (73%), [...]

Almost 6 in 10 “digital dads” (fathers with children under 18 in the household, who own a smartphone) claim to have acted on a mobile coupon offer, compared to 46% of mothers with smartphones and 31% of those without kids in the household, per results [pdf] from a Placecast survey conducted by Harris Interactive. And [...]

Experian Marketing Services has released a new report [download page] on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Americans, analyzing among other aspects their annual income and spending. The report shows that household discretionary spend among gay men trails their heterosexual counterparts ($15,100 vs. $17,400), and the same is the case with lesbian women ($15,000 vs. [...]

The biggest change in how small businesses go about their work this year as opposed to 5 years ago is through their use – or increased use – of online marketing tools, according to results from a survey sponsored by Constant Contact. Indeed, compared to 5 years ago, the adoption of various online marketing tools [...]

Based on an analysis of 1 trillion impressions from its 100,000-strong publisher network during Q1, Infolinks has released a set of findings concerning online ad click-through rates (CTRs) by time of day, day of the week, and US state. The data suggests that CTRs are highest between 11AM and 2PM, rising to 14% above the [...]