By 2012, Research & Markets forecasts that 90% of US households will have access to broadband, with 94% of these individuals watching online video—this is up from an estimated 77.8% of broadband users in 2008 watching online video. Worldwide online video revenue is expected to eclipse $4.5 bln by 2012. By 2012, 39% of adults in the US are expected to have purchased or rented online video. 42.8% of US respondents to this survey still favor physical discs with packaging when purchasing movies. By 2012, the company anticipates the online video market to eclipse $4.5 bln, growing from $1.2 bln (CAGR of 39%) in 2007.

In 2008 the virtual game economy employs 400,000 people who earn an average of $145 per month, creating a global market worth about $500 mln, according to Professor Richard Heeks from the University of Manchester. 80% of virtual game workers are based in China.

In Q2 2008, 74% of all mail received was spam. In Q2 2008, Turkey became the country with most zombie computers (11% of the global total), followed by Brazil (8.4%) and Russia (7.4%). The USA, which in the Q1 2008 accounted for 5% of all zombies, is now in ninth place with just 4.3% of the total. Google Adwords has been at the center of one of the most notable attacks over the last quarter, PandaLabs says. This Google service had been used previously to launch phishing attacks and the trend continues. This type of attack uses social engineering to trick users into revealing confidential details (bank account numbers, passwords, etc.).

TV-based Internet video receivers and connected consumer electronics platforms will drive transactional revenues for premium Internet video services past $6 bln. U.S. consumers will spend over $6 bln for Internet video services by 2013, with direct-to-TV videos accounting for 75% of that revenue, according to Parks Associates.

Mindshare Interaction published a list of top advertisers in Internet sector in Russia Federation, compiling the data for the first half of 2008. Ford Motor Co led the way with $4.6 mln spending, followed by Russian mobile operators MTS and Megafon, then by US automaker General Motors, another mobile operator Vympelkom OAO, automakers PSA Peugeot Citroen, Nissan, electronics conglomerate Samsung, Honda and Procter & Gamble. Total Internet spending by top 10 advertisers in .ru sector of the Internet spent $20 mln total in the first 6 months of 2008.