Beijing March 3 news, analysts say Facebook 2009 annual revenues of up to 6-7 billion dollars, more than one billion U.S. dollars this year, may reach 1.1 billion.
As a non-listed companies, Facebook is generally not disclose financial data. Only in September last year, publicly expressed its "free cash flow to positive" At that time, analysts forecast annual revenues of about 5.5 billion U.S. dollars.
In related news, based on a comprehensive, analysts estimated that in 2008 total revenue of Facebook is about 280
million -3 million U.S. dollars in 2009 compared with 600 million -7 million.
Facebook can realize revenue doubling almost every year - 07 compared with only 150 million U.S. dollars is expected in the foreseeable future, Facebook will continue to maintain this growth trend, becoming a multi-billion dollar annual revenue company.
Facebook declined to comment, but provided the following statement:
As a non-listed company, we will not publicly available financial reports. We understand the outside world of our past financial performance and future prospects for the development of the interest, but outside the anticipated revenue for Facebook is speculative and can not be treated as the official data. We focus on the continued development of business and lay a solid foundation for long-term development.
Analysts pointed out that, Facebook09 years, there are multiple sources of income, but basically revolves around advertising and marketing started. Estimates brand advertising, Microsoft ads, virtual goods and effects of advertising (Performance Advertising) respectively by 225 million, 5 million, 1 million and 3.5 billion dollars in revenue.
Expects the majority of advertising revenue growth will be maintained, including brand advertising, self-advertising and virtual item sales business growth by leaps and bounds. Industry insiders estimate that total revenue this year, Facebook will be more than one billion U.S. dollars, could reach 1.1 billion.
Many people have questioned the profitability of Facebook, but Facebook in many ways, demonstrated ability to innovate, this will be the long-term to help business development. As hundreds of millions of Facebook users to master a large number of real data, their ads can be more targeted marketing to its great advantages.
Analysts said that Facebook will gradually erode the network giants such as Yahoo and MySpace's advertising share of optimism Facebook will eventually dominate the field of brand advertising, annual revenues of 200 billion U.S. dollars.
