Los Angeles-based The Search Agency said Thursday it acquired Toronto-based digital marketing firm The Acquisition Agency to expand into Canada. The company will become The Search Agency's Toronto office, led by Jason Sikora. The two companies will focus on supporting local and international clients. Sikora, the CEO of The Acquisition Agency, will stay on as managing director in Canada, bringing more than 15 years of Internet marketing experience to The Search Agency.

American teens are well-known for their consumption of online video content, but they're also among teh biggest producers, according to the latest findings from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The project's latest report, ""Teens and Online Video," estimates 27% of Internet-using teens (12-17) record and upload video to the Internet.

The Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) announced today that Campus Networks, PlayNetwork and Roberts Communications have joined the association's roster.

The cover of the Oct. 3, 2011, issue of New York Magazine depicting the image of an elderly pregnant woman was chosen by magazine editors as "Cover of the Year" in the 2012 Best Cover Contest, hosted by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). The contest was open to all consumer magazines published in calendar year 2011.

Real estate online marketplace Zillow reported Wednesday it plans to acquire San Francisco-based RentJuice for $40 million in cash. The company provides rental relationship management software for landlords, property managers and rental brokers. More than 5 million renters visit Zillow monthly on mobile and desktop devices, searching through hundreds of thousands of rental listings. RentJuice's software and tools will help rental professionals market their property online.

  Lego Systems becomes a newest member of The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement – the industry-wide audience measurement group of TV networks, media agencies and marketers. One of the group’s main focuses has been on cross-platform video measurement – somewhat of the holy grail for marketers and TV networks currently. The group participated in the “Cross-Platform Video Measurement Summit” earlier this year. CIMM now has 23 members, which also include A&E Networks, Belo Corp., CBS Corp. Carat USA, ConAgra, Discovery Communications, Gannett, GroupM, Hearst, Interpublic Group's Mediabrands, Microsoft, NBCUniversal, News Corp, Omnicom Media Group, Procter & Gamble, Publicis Groupe, …

Lucy Danziger, Editor-in-Chief of Self magazine, has been elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). She succeeds Larry Hackett, managing editor of People magazine.

BrightRoll has partnered with AdMob to let publishers and developers integrate video ads into their mobile apps through the Google mobile ad platform. BrightRoll says it’s the first video ad network available through AdMob’s ad network mediation service, which lets publishers manage the networks they use to enhance fill rates and boost revenue. The new video ad offering is available to developers who have the latest version of AdMob’s SDK (software development kit). For mobile, BrightRoll adapts advertisers' traditional TV or web video content into pre-roll ad units for various mobile devices including the iPhones, iPads and Android phones and …

U.S. sales of new smartphones running Android increased 24% in the first quarter from the fourth quarter, translating into 61% market share for the Google mobile operating system. That gain came at the expense of Apple’s iOS platform, whose smartphone share fell from 41% to 29% in the quarter, according to new data from The NPD Group. Even so, year-over-year smartphone sales for both companies remained strong, representing 90% of smartphone sales, with Android picking up 20% in 2012 and Apple, 7%. Apple last week reported selling 35 million iPhones in its most recent quarter, down slightly from the …

IAC/InterActiveCorp revenue from its online search business rose 47% to $343.2 million in Q1 2012, supporting a 91% rise in profit, according to the company's earnings report released Wednesday. Search includes Mindspark, a digital consumer products business consisting of our B2C operations, along with destination Web sites Ask.com and Dictionary.com, through which the company provides search and additional services; and Pronto, a comparison shopping engine. The earnings release states "revenue reflects strong growth from destination websites and Mindspark's B2B and B2C operations. The revenue growth in destination websites reflects strong query gains driven primarily by increased marketing and content optimization. …