In 2006, MySpace spotted Alexa value 5, which is lower than the only search engines (Microsoft MSN, Yahoo, Google) in the world. Our concern was a huge amount of money for transport ". Say, yahoo.com spotted Alexa divisions and decimal revenue 6.42 billion euros. In the meantime, MySpace is created about 500 million dollars of revenue in 2006. This phenomenon was very youtube.com's If, in spite of its sites site struggled to money Alexa rank is less than 10.
How the 2008? How does things pan social networks such as MySpace and emerging Facebook? On 30 June, over a period of 12 months MySpace brought revenue 755 million and the Facebook's $ 265 million. The latest alexa traffic rank, accounting for the number 7 appears to be from MySpace all internet traffic% 7.25 Facebook is number 5, all Internet traffic% 9.36. Search engines such as Yahoo, accounts for 28% of the total amount of 2 Internet traffic and succeeded in patenting the revenue 6.97 billion euros. From the standpoint of a reasonable, at least that would increase revenue from MySpace to 1.75 billion $ now if its business model is as good as Yahoo 's. What seems to be a social network is not a good business model all. We do not even talked about Facebook's traffic tulospalvelujen, which is much worse than MySpace. How YouTube?It covers 18,6% of Internet traffic, however, not later than analysts assess. peg in YouTube revenue is "only" $ 200 M in 2008.
How Facebook? We have featured Facebook over the past year or so repeatedly.After receive money Kynnyskysymyksenä from Microsoft (factors implying a valuation 15 billion euro), are the reports that Facebook is to enable employees to cash out at 4 billion valuation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. projected EUR 50 million in EBIDTA.Thus even a reduced valuation, Facebook is valued at 80 times earnings.
Strong growth in visitors, social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace seems to continue to be valued. However, where they are not their traffics over the next three to five years, if the valuation is down for an indefinite period of time for these companies. they can't show the patenting a lot of people that come from the amount of revenue from their sites shade.
