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> 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.
> 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.
Where are all the "analysts" from hn claiming fb wouldn't make it? Thats right. They left. Moral of the story is.... Never believe the consensus that is hacker news. Dare i say inverse Edit: why the downvotes? Is it because my networth is 23 mil?
Interesting thing is that GOOG's results which were released several days ago weren't so stellar. It's good to see real competition in advertisement market.
I'm not trying to be snarky but is it really competition if it's just two players?
Interesting thing is that GOOG's results which were released several days ago weren't so stellar. It's good to see real competition in advertisement market.
I'm not trying to be snarky but is it really competition if it's just two players?
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 -…
How many companies in total have more than $35.5B cash/equivalents? Including Apple, for example.
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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.
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 -…
Thoughts on anti-trust? If you're capturing every single part of the growth of a huge previously diversified market, whats the arguments against?
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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.