US Agency Revenue Up 8.8% to $28.2 Billion
U.S. agencies offering digital marketing
services led the charge as overall agency revenue grew 8.8% to $28.2
billion in 2006, reports
AdAge. Billings from traditional advertising and
media were up just 4.2%, reaching $13.1 billion. Income from marketing offerings rose from
13.1% to hit $15.1 billion.
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Corn planting will be up 15% this year to 90.5 million acres and
12.1 million more acres than in 2006, the biggest
U.S. corn planting since 1944, boosted by high demand from the ethanol industry and
strong export sales, reports AP, citing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
annual prospective plantings report.
American
consumers are eager to celebrate Easter with their family and friends,
with the tTotal holiday spending estimated to reach $14.37 billion, 
With
the new Democratic Congress promising to lower
health care costs, g
U.S. sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles rose 28%
to 254,545 in 2006, but the rate of growth is starting to slow, 
The
average U.S. 12th-grader reading score in 2006 was the lowest since 1992,
while less than one-quarter (23 percent) of 12th-graders scored at or
above the Proficient level in the 2005 National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP), 
Charitable
contributions to higher education grew 9.4% to a record $28 billion in the
last academic year, 
U.S.
health care costs are set to double over the next 10 years to $4.1
trillion annually, or 1 dollar of every 5 dollars spent, according to a
study by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, published today in
the Web edition of the journal Health Affairs.
Customer
satisfaction with e-commerce surpassed that of offline retail by 11.6%,
according to the 4th Quarter 2006 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI)
E-Commerce Report 
The
average unique audience for newspaper Web sites jumped more than 22% or
over 10 million in 2006 to reach monthly unique visitors of a record 57.6
million in the fourth quarter 2006, 
