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Social network ad spend data

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

From eMarketer, via VentureBeat.
In summary still rising fast, but not quite as quickly as they had thought previously. $920m last year.

And Myspace is the premier destination, although Facebook is taking market share.

Note also that widgets only accounted for $15m last year%2 ... Continue reading »

4 comments

  • Interested in what 'Widgets and applications' means and what happens when a widget goes into an 'Other destination social networks' (or in Facebook or MySpace for that matter).
    Also - any growth predictions?
  • All good questions Ivan. I guess this is revenues earned by widget companies, including Facebook applications. Those widgets presumably appear on blogs and profile pages everywhere.

    I haven't seen any growth projections beyond the $15-$40m 2007-2008 cited above.
  • Nic, your headline is misleading. This is a large subset of social media as it ignores blogs and seemingly web2-y video/photo sharing like youtube.
  • tks Scott - will correct

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