Women, Blogging and Social Media - Numbers Don't Lie

A few years ago, online video was the hottest trend for content publishers. Everyone was creating YouTube channels and taking their blogs or websites to the leading user-generated video site.

A new study from eMarketer predicts that by 2014, 77.8% of the U.S. population will use the Internet at least once per month.

The world has gone mobile, and in 2013, the average time spent with digital media per day will surpass TV viewing time for the first time according to research by eMarketer.

It's not enough to just drive traffic to your content. You need to drive engaged traffic---people who actually consume your content when they find it rather than clicking away from it.

It's hard to believe there was a time when we couldn't reach for our smartphones and get the answer to any question within a few seconds via the internet by simply typing a few keywords.

The illusion of online authority and influence isn't a new problem. For years, people have been buying fake Twitter accounts and using robots to inflate follower numbers and boost trading topics on Twitter.

Buying and selling social media followers has become big business in recent months. In November 2013, I shared statistics from a number of studies as well as an infographic filled with information about fake followers and the illusion of authority and influence online.

When the Internet debuted in 1984, the world began to change in dramatic ways. Over the past three decades, the growth of the Internet has changed how we shop, how we're entertained, how we communicate, and how we gather information and get the news.

In a new presentation from Business Insider, The Future of Digital, CEO Henry Blodgett and his Business Intelligence team provide a comprehensive overview of how the digital landscape has changed in recent years and what's coming in the years ahead of us.