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Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year

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Re: Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year

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Post by inthewoods »

virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

Not at all - and I think it will, as much as it can, only get more consolidated as Facebook buys more platforms/apps to grow ad inventory opportunities. Google will also face this same pressure. Amazon will do the same in the retail space.

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Post by solomatov »

omot wrote: post #7
virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

That is absolutely insane. Should we seriously be considering anti-trust regulators to crack down on their insane growth?

As far as I understand, In the US monopoly is fine unless it leads to increase of price paid by consumers. EU probably has different opinion.

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Post by sremani »

virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

For those listening, ad contrarian has been yelling about this duopoly fun fact for years.

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Post by simlevesque »

virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

I tried to self host my ads on my personal web site... there are no good open source ad servers. A breakthrough in this area could bring disruption.

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Post by hawkice »

chollida1 wrote: post #5

Some fun Facebook facts from the earnings call/report - Facebook has a massive, $35.5 billion hoard of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. It's the third biggest S&P 500 company by this metric that isn't paying a dividend, after Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. - Facebook's headcount is now at 20,658. That's up 43 percent since last year - Average Revenue Per User Rises 23% to $4.73, Down from 4Q 2016 -…

Important to remember that advertising revenue _always_ peaks in Q4, and that was an election year too, so even if they're down YoY this Q4 I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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Post by TomSawyer »

omot wrote: post #7
virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

That is absolutely insane. Should we seriously be considering anti-trust regulators to crack down on their insane growth?

The point of anti-trust laws is not to punish success, but to police against an entity using their dominant position in one market to take over a different market.

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Post by riku_iki »

tanilama wrote: post #8
virtuexru wrote: post #4

> Facebook’s formidable ad business, along with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, soaked up 99% of the online ad industry’s growth last year, according to Pivotal Research. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

Impressive. So ads money for everyone else :P. Pity those startups that hangs on ads revenue now.

67% of Google AdSense revenue still go to those startups.
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