Revenue

CHART OF THE DAY: Facebook Revenue Is Not Growing Like Google's Did. Facebook engrangerait un revenu de près de 2 milliards $US cette année - Actualités Techno-économie - Médias et Web. Discussion of Online Advertising, CPA, SEO, Affiliate and Next Generation Marketing. CHART OF THE DAY: The iPhone Is Now Almost Half Of Apple's Revenue. Apple's iPhone business continues to surge.

The company's phone division is now by far its biggest: An $8.8 billion business last quarter, representing more than 43% of Apple's overall sales, and growing more than 90% year-over-year. Meanwhile, the Mac had its best quarter ever ($4.9 billion), and the iPad represented almost twice as much revenue last quarter ($2.8 billion) as the iPod ($1.5 billion). Financial Times app brings in £1m. The Financial Times's new iPad app has generated more than £1m in advertising revenue since it was launched in May, according to the paper's deputy chief executive.

Ben Hughes, who is also the paper's global commercial director, said more than 400,000 people have downloaded the app. He added that it now accounts for 10% of the paper's new digital subscriptions. "My job is to make the FT brand sweat," he told the MediaGuardian Changing Advertising Summit. "Print [advertising] isn't dead but media owners are just having to find new ways to put [different models] together. " Hughes said traditional print advertising now accounts for just 40% of the FT's overall revenue. He said changes in the advertising market are not limited to opportunities created by new technology. . • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. . • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". Facebook Ad Spending to Nearly Double This Year: eMarketer.

Google Reports Second Quarter Earnings – Is “Very Pleased” With The Results. Supergiant Google has just reported their second quarter financials, showing rising revenue and profit on a year over year basis.

In the words of Eric Schmidt: “Google had a strong second quarter. Solid growth in our core business and very strong growth in our emerging businesses drove 24% revenue growth year over year.” Revenue for Google in the second quarter was $6.82 billion, a 24% increase over second quarter revenues from the year prior, when the company brought in $5.52 billion. Facebook '09 revenue neared $800 million. Social Gaming Shows Potential. Social gaming has become an online phenomenon.

Thanks to the massive popularity of Facebook and the addictive appeal of real-time simulation games, social gaming has gained widespread adoption. The runaway success of FarmVille and other social games such as Zoo World, Happy Aquarium, Pet Society and Restaurant City has spawned an industry that generated an estimated $725 million in the US alone in 2009 and is expected to triple by 2012, according to ThinkEquity.

“The success of social gaming is part of a broader transformation to more casual, socially interactive environments,” said Paul Verna, eMarketer senior analyst and author of the new report, “Social Gaming: Virtual Crops Yield Real Profits.” “Forecasts call for continued growth in the social gaming audience, and companies that have built their businesses in the traditional video game industry are shifting resources toward this newer form of game play.” Previous Article. Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? [STATS]

According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in general are more popular than search engines in some parts of the world.

In fact, networks such as Facebook have been pushing hard against the biggest names in web search, including Google, for several months now. As Hitwise reported recently, Facebook's overall web traffic pulled ahead of Google's for the first time in the U.S. in March of this year. Now, we've learned that in the UK, people are visiting social networks more than they're visiting search engines. Facebook dominates the current crop of social networks, accounting for the majority (55%) of all social site visits. When compared to the wider web, Google gets around 9.3% of all web traffic, while Facebook captures just over 7%.

But when UK stats for all search engines were stacked up with data from all social sites, social networks attracted .55% more traffic than search engines. We Estimate Zynga Revenues Around $270M In 2009 And $240M In 2010 YTD. This is a guest post by Jeremy Liew, a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he invests in the internet and mobile sectors.

His investments include Flixster, Living Social, Playdom, Rockyou and Shoedazzle. He blogs at lsvp.wordpress.com. There has been a lot of speculation about Zynga’s revenue. Last week Business insider said: Zynga, the social gamesmaker behind Farmville, has a revenue run-rate around $600 million, a source close to the company tells us. Businessweek says: More than 120 million people play Zynga’s online games. We thought that we would estimate Zynga’s revenue ourselves by looking at publicly available info.

Focused on only top games on FacebookFor each game, pulled daily active user (DAU) numbers on first of every month since 1/1/09 from Developer Analytics.To get the average DAU for each month, took the average of the first of the month and the first of the following month. Again, note that these are all estimates.