US Internet user

New stats from a research group eMarketer showed that the social gaming market will likely exceed $1 billion this year generally due to a rising number of users and a projected increase in advertising. It is a 28% growth over the previous year when the market accounted for $856 million.

eMarketer says that about 62 million US users which is 27% of the total Internet subscribers are forecast to play at least one of the social games a month in 2011, up from 53 million last year.