While there is no single competitor to Facebook yet, Broughton pointed to services such as Salaam World, which is aiming to launch in November and sign up 50 million Muslim users within three years. That means there is a reasonably low entry barrier to a competitor coming in." You can afford, as a user, to be on several networks. "When they were initially filing there were a lot of comparisons to Google but that was predicated on growth. At the time of the IPO, social games company Zygna generated about 12% of Facebook's revenue.īroughton said growth, including on Facebook's popular games platform, is slowing. "It's a major concern that they expressed when they filed for their IPO if users continued to engage via mobile in preference to desktop that could damage their growth potential, and that's not a good situation to be in a market where smartphones are becoming more popular," he said.įacebook is also geographically skewed, Broughton added, with average revenues per user being far higher, about $14, in the US than the $3 in the rest of the world.Ĭombined with plateauing growth in its core markets, Facebook will have to work harder, with smarter, more targeted and more lucrative adverts.įacebook's primary sources of income are advertising and payments for features including gaming.
Richard Broughton, head of broadband at analysts Screen Digest, said Facebook is exploring multiple business models to try and boost mobile income. About 600 million people use Facebook's mobile platform, and one in 10 reportedly only use mobile to access the site. Facebook is still reeling from the share collapse, which launched at $38 a share in May only to drop steadily to $21 on Wednesday.Īs a result Zuckerberg tumbled down the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans as his personal fortune fell by $8.1bn.įacebook's share price slumped after the flotation over fears the company's revenues would be adversely affected by consumers increasingly accessing the internet via mobile devices, which is harder to generate advertising revenue from. The announcement will also be a welcome distraction for the disastrous Facebook IPO. "I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too."
MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS FACEBOOK UPDATE
"Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life," wrote Zuckerberg in a Facebook timeline update on his personal account.
More than 300m photos are uploaded every day and 62.6m songs played. Facebook has recorded 1.13 trillion Likes, 140.3 billion friend connections and 219bn shared photos since it launched in February 2004.
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