Social web business models

Business models - it's revenues minus costs The web can create incredibly high operating margin businesses.

Freeconomics There will be plenty of paid business models.

Not only are most of the hottest Web 2.0 startups unprofitable, quite a few lack viable revenue models altogether. This has led cynics like me to criticize these startups quite harshly over the past several years. Twitter, for instance, is the perfect example of the prototypical Web 2.0 startup that has captured the hearts and minds of the Web 2.0 "community" but hasn’t captured any real money (outside of venture capital). Web 2.0, Revenue Models and Profitability: A Web 1.0 Comparison

A grim view of social Web revenue potential... but focusing only on the most obvious cases. There are plenty of counter examples. It just shows that the equivalent of 'monetization paradigm shift' that Google did with search, did not happen yet with social web. by wallen Mar 1

I agree with the main point of the article: the business model for social media is yet to be found. It feels like 2002, when Google was still looking for a model while Overture was leading the way with a far from perfect offering. From the 2002 New York Times: Patience - Google did not always have a biz model

Google also had its fair share of criticism at the time for its lack of business model... by wallen Mar 1

The estimates match what we heard in September, which was that $550 million was looking too low – 2009 was clearly a big year for the company in terms of building its business, as we’ve been covering. FB 650bn in 09

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. 1-2 bn in 10?

My Space at 500m While I think eMarketer’s projections are significantly lower than Facebook’s actual advertising revenues, it highlights Facebook’s ongoing growth. Facebook Pages are increasingly becoming an integral component of brand advertising and that will only increase as Facebook introduces the Open Graph API , enabling branded social experiences to take place anywhere on the web. eMarketer expects total social network ad spend to grow 7.1 percent next year, up to $1.3 billion, of which Facebook will make up the largest percentage.

Twitter profitable

I recently wrote about Twitter's business model as ultimately enveloping ever greater parts of its developer community. [ Twitter Is The Black Hole Of The Twitterverse... ] Twitter's Future: Tyrant Or Benevolent King... - SVW

Survey of web biz model Dan Zambonini is the Technical Director of Box UK. He is the original architect of the Amaxus Content Management System, conceived clickdensity, has participated in industry-shaping think tanks, and has had articles featured in international websites and magazines.

It's towards the bottom of the page by wallen Aug 3

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One of the best source of social web revenue and cost benchmarking: Xing - a european competitor of LinkedIn - is a public company so all reports are public. by wallen Mar 8

So Business Week gets their hands on Digg’s financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million. Digg cost base figures

Actual cost per FTE is around USD 200k or EUR 150. So should be a bit lower in Europe given lower salaries or prices vs. Silicon Valley. by wallen Mar 6

Cool sizing figures 5-15 engineers is a highly usefull confirmation! by Patrice Mar 1

Agreed. The total cost base is also in line with our thinking. by wallen Mar 1

Twitter profitable

Interesting as well to note that they passed directly from "no revenues" to "break even".....! by PED Dec 21

Interesting to note that Twitter has a total cost base of 20-25m$ for 80 employees by wallen Dec 21

YouTube profitable in 2010? It came in a brief conversation I had with Eric Schmidt after the analyst call to discuss Google’s latest earnings.

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While the fail whale was part of Twitter's quirky charm, and forgivable for a small startup with no revenue and little funding, now that it has secured well over 100 million in funding and reaches tens of millions of people, users aren't so willing to cut it some slack. Twitter Plans to Go Beyond the 140-Employee Limit - Having alrea