Web 2.0 monetization

Facebook

Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch. He grew up in Danville, California and later relocated to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, where he studied biology with a minor in ‘Society and Genetics’. You can reach him at jkincaidtc@gmail.com (he has other addresses too, so don’t worry if you have a different one). → Learn More Late last year, we published a list of the top 10 IPO candidates of 2010. Leading that list was Facebook, which has grown to 400 million users and is finally starting to turn on the revenue pumps as it works toward its inevitable IPO.

Revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 to $2 billion...!! by PED Mar 18

While the most aggressive reports we've seen so far peg Zynga's revenue around $150 million, our banker says he understands the number is closer to $250 million, with huge 60% EBITDA margins. Bonus: See Mark Pincus's presentation from the Web 2.0 Summit → We asked Zynga founder Mark Pincus about these numbers and a Zynga spokesperson told us, "We aren't giving out any numbers beyond what we have publicly stated." So, if it's true that Zynga is indeed pulling in so much cash, where does all that money come from? The easiest way to understand it is to look at Zynga's latest huge hit, FarmVille, which has 20 million daily active users since launching over the summer.

http://www.businessinsider.com/zygna-revenues-are-closer-to-250-million-says-banker-2009-10

Zynga

Zynga, $250 million revenues and 60% EBITDA margins by PED Mar 18

Zynga, the social gamesmaker behind Farmville, has a revenue run-rate around $600 million, a source close to the company tells us. Another source confirms that Zynga is doing well over $1 million in revenue a day. Zynga makes its money getting users addicted to games such as Farmville and Fishville, and then selling them "virtual goods" that make those games easier. The games are also made easier when a player can get another Facebook friend to sign up and build his or her own farm. This introduces an element of social pressure which makes the games more addictive and more viral. SUNY graduate student A.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-monthly-active-users-of-various-widgets-on-facebook-2010-4

CHART OF THE DAY: Farmville-Maker Zynga's Revenues Reach $600 Mi

Twitter

According to a report by Business Week's Spencer E. Ante, Twitter's search deals with Google and Microsoft made the company about $25 million - enough to turn Twitter into a profitable business in 2009. According to these reports - which Twitter did not comment on - the deal with Google made Twitter about $15 million this year and a similar deal with Microsoft generated about $10 million in revenue.

25M$ revenues in 2009 with search deals, and the real business model is yet to come... by PED Mar 18

Yelp

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Google and Yelp are in advanced acquisition negotiations, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources.

Yelp has whispered that 2009 revenues will be around $30 million and are expecting $50 million or so in 2010 by PED Mar 18

LinkedIn

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloneyâ€™s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City.

$110M revenues according to Business Insider by PED Mar 19

Not figures of revenues or profit ? by wallen Mar 19

The company was valued at around $1 billion in its last round of financing in 2008, and has been profitable for the past years by PED Mar 18

Welcome to the SAI 50+: The Most Valuable Internet Startups Facebook tops our list again, with a valuation of $6.5 billion. Facebook has grown at a tremendous clip this year, but digital media multiples have come down so Facebook’s value has stayed the same .

Demand media

Estimates point to $250 million in 2009 revenue by PED Mar 18

Welcome to the SAI 50+: The Most Valuable Internet Startups Facebook tops our list again, with a valuation of $6.5 billion. Facebook has grown at a tremendous clip this year, but digital media multiples have come down so Facebook’s value has stayed the same . Rounding out the top five: Wikipedia , which we think could be worth $5 billion if it tried to make money; Betfair , the online gambling site; NewEgg , the e-commerce site that recently filed to go public; and Craigslist , which we think could be worth $3 billion if it tried to generate revenue in earnest.

Habbo

$110 million in revenue in 2009 by PED Mar 18

Etsy

Welcome to the SAI 50+: The Most Valuable Internet Startups Facebook tops our list again, with a valuation of $6.5 billion. Facebook has grown at a tremendous clip this year, but digital media multiples have come down so Facebook’s value has stayed the same . Rounding out the top five: Wikipedia , which we think could be worth $5 billion if it tried to make money; Betfair , the online gambling site; NewEgg , the e-commerce site that recently filed to go public; and Craigslist , which we think could be worth $3 billion if it tried to generate revenue in earnest.

$12 million in net revenue in 2009 by PED Mar 18