Zynga

Zynga's Earnings: Social Gaming Revenue by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] Social gaming juggernaut Zynga released its 2011 Q4 earnings on Tuesday — its first public report since hitting NASDAQ in December.

The numbers were promising for investors, but revealed that scaling might pose challenges for longterm profitability. Our friends at Statista have taken a deeper look at the report and rendered the graphs below to show the relationship between Zynga's massive user base, wavering growth patterns, and how much users are paying for content. SEE ALSO: Understanding Zynga: A Post-IPO FAQ. Zynga Wants To Cut Dependency On Facebook. Zynga is in talks to partner with other portals in a bid to wean itself off the Facebook teat.

The company is the largest game developer on Facebook and raised $1 billion last year in an initial public offering of its stock. But investor enthusiasm has been lackluster since then, in large part because the company, which credits 90% of its sales to Facebook, is seen as being too dependent on social networking giant. Facebook takes a 30% cut of virtual wares sold in Zynga games. Does Zynga's IPO Fizzle Signal the End of the Social Media Bubble? Game over?

Zynga's IPO may have ended the social media IPO era with a whimper, rather than a bang, as its stock closed at $9.50 — down $.50 from its asking price. The lackluster performance contrasted with other recent social media IPOs, including LinkedIn's debut in May, in which the company's stock price doubled and Groupon's, which rose $6 from the asking price to $20, on Nov. 4, the day the company went public. Is this a sign that Wall Street is over its infatuation with social media IPOs? Kevin Pleines, an analyst at Birinyi Associates in Westport, Conn., thinks that may be case. Pleines says that investors have learned their lesson from recent social media IPOs and are curbing their enthusiasm, in this case, at least.