Posts Tagged ‘revenue’

LinkedIn has announced that revenue has more than doubled in the last quarter and they’ve increased their 2012 revenues, and the stock has jumped accordingly.  The social network reported $167.7 million in revenue for the fourth quarter, beating the average analyst estimate of $159.8 million in the quarter.  The good news also comes at a [...]

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Back in March Hulu’s CEO Jason Kilar predicted that the video streaming site was on pace to make half a billion dollars in revenue in 2011. They didn’t quite make it, but according to statistics released on the Hulu blog they came very close, clocking in at $420 million in revenue last year.

According to a new report from Futuresource Consulting, online video revenues tripled this year and they are on the path to becoming a $7 billion industry by 2015.

Orkut possesses 66 million active users — virtually 60 percent of which come from Brazil. SuperData also reports that games played on platforms, excluding Facebook, such as Orkut, are predicted to gain $5.6 billion in revenue by 2014.

YouTube currently serves somewhere in the vicinity of 200,000 advertisers in any given quarter but the content featured on their new premium channels could open the doors for 6 or 7 million advertisers, according to YouTube’s VP of Global Sales, Lucas Watson.

Mike Turner is a managing partner for Bitfold Online Games, an independent social game developer that focuses on original social game IP for Facebook, international social networks, and mobile devices. Read more about Bitfold after the article. The social gaming market is without doubt the new buzz in the world of gaming. The top companies [...]

In case you didn’t hear, our mediabistro network recently joined forces with the Inside Network, and since then we’ve all been working hard to create the leading network of social media news on the web.  In addition to that, we’ve been working hard to power up our conferences, and I’m happy to say that the [...]

Nobody knows for sure exactly how much the top grossing YouTube partners are making, but it is purported to be in the six-digit range and one top partner is even using revenue he makes from his YouTube videos to pay his way through college.

However, CEO Tim Armstrong put a positive spin on the numbers, saying the company posted its first gains in display advertising revenue since the last quarter of 2007. I applaud AOL for making gains in revenue, which looks promising. The company’s turnaround plan is beginning to take form. I haven’t marked AOL gone yet.

Last month Groupon’s U.S. Revenues took a nosedive of nearly 30%, falling from $88.9M in January to $61.7M in February. Following a miniscule drop in revenue from August to September, Groupon had seen consistent growth from September through January. So what’s to account for this dramatic drop in February? Could it have anything to do [...]