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It's all about owning the eye balls on the phone. No one owns them more than Facebook and Instagram. Monetization is inevitable and will be huge.
Where do you get this crap? Never happened, never will.
Holy crap Cinema is awesome
Amazon didnt either for the first 6 years, but they were playing for the long term.
How exactly we're they flops? Because they didnt move the stock price? Zuck is building for the future, not for short term revenue. If he was building for short term revenue he would have pulled a MySpace and started full screen takeover ads for Hollywood movies every time you went to Facebook.com to login.
They have direct access to Verizon backbones and all other major backbones. They can tap any communication through that.
Just an excuse for NSA wire taps
Yea but its a scam stock don't ya know? Pssh
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All product teams at Facebook are small. The hand delivered invites with the coffee stains implies something with "news" or "newspaper". He did say at the shareholder meeting that he wanted Facebook to be a "personalized newspaper". So it's something to do with news and could just be a News Feed v3 product. We'll see.
Zuck is still highly respected internally at Facebook. Stepping down would cause a huge drop in morale.
Facebook To Account For 12.9% Of Mobile Ad Revenues In 2013
According to the latest report from eMarketer, Facebook will go from no mobile Internet ad revenues whatsoever in 2011 to a 12.9 percent share of the market in 2013, with the digital marketing analysts pegging the social network’s total for the year at more than $2 billion.
Facebook still trails Google by a wide margin, as eMarketer projected that Google will tally $8.85 billion in mobile Internet ad revenues for 2013, nearly double the $4.61 billion it took in last year.
eMarketer’s projected total for Facebook in 2013 represents a leap of more than 333 percent from its 2012 total of nearly $500 million.
eMarketer concluded:
Combined, three companies — Google, Facebook, and Twitter — account for a consolidating share of mobile advertising revenues worldwide, as other players, such as YP, Pandora, Apple, and Millennial Media, see their shares decrease, despite maintaining relatively strong businesses growing at rapid rates.
While both Google and Facebook are increasing revenues at faster rates than the overall digital ad spend market, dramatic increases in ad revenues are more difficult for companies with such high earnings. Twitter will post the fastest growth rate in worldwide ad revenues among the companies eMarketer analyzed, with a 102.2 percent increase expected this year after a 106.7 percent increase in 2012. That’s compared with 12.3 percent growth in total digital ad spending projected for 2013, and 20.4 percent growth estimated for 2012.
Overall, eMarketer’s forecast for digital ad revenues at select major publishers indicates that online ad spending, like mobile advertising, continues to consolidate among a few major ad sellers. In 2011, eMarketer estimates, 55.59 percent of all digital ad revenues worldwide went to companies in the “other” category. By the end of this year, their share will drop to 52.28 percent. However, with plenty of room for growth in the worldwide mobile market, eMarketer continues to believe there is space for other players to emerge and potentially gain significant share.
Readers: Are you surprised that Facebook was able to go from no mobile Internet ad revenues whatsoever to a projected 12.9 percent of the market in such a short time?
http://allfacebook.com/emarketer-mobile-internet-ad-revenues_b119831
Facebook Owned Parse Powering 100,000 Apps!
http://blog.parse.com/2013/06/12/parse-now-powers-100000-apps/
88 and 100 million Americans on Facebook (Super Bowl-sized audience every single night)
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Public Conversations on Facebook
Every day, hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to share their thoughts on big moments happening all around them. Whether it’s talking about a favorite television show, cheering on a hometown sports team or engaging with friends during a breaking news event—people on Facebook connect with their friends about what’s taking place all over the world.
During primetime television alone, there are between 88 and 100 million Americans engaged on Facebook - roughly a Super Bowl-sized audience every single night. The recent "Red Wedding" episode of Game of Thrones, received over 1.5 million mentions on Facebook, representing a significant portion of the 5.2 million people who watched the show. And this year's Oscars buzz reached an all-time high on Facebook with over 66.5 million interactions, including likes, comments, and posts.
To date, there has not been a simple way to see the larger view of what's happening or what people are talking about.
To bring these conversations more to the forefront, we will be rolling out a series of features that surface some of the interesting discussions people are having about public events, people, and topics. As a first step, we are beginning to roll out hashtags on Facebook.
Introducing Hashtags on Facebook
Starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook. Similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest, hashtags on Facebook allow you to add context to a post or indicate that it is part of a larger discussion. When you click on a hashtag in Facebook, you'll see a feed of what other people and Pages are saying about that event or topic.
Now you can:
• Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. For example, #NBAFinals.
• Click on hashtags that originate on other services, such as Instagram.
• Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results.
As always, you control the audience for your posts, including those with hashtags.
Hashtags are just the first step to help people more easily discover what others are saying about a specific topic and participate in public conversations. We'll continue to roll out more features in the coming weeks and months, including trending hashtags and deeper insights, that help people discover more of the world's conversations.
https://newsroom.fb.com/News/633/Public-Conversations-on-Facebook
I love putting shorts in their place when it comes to FB. Just reaffirms my LONG (1-2 years) position.
They went public because they had to. They hit the SEC shareholder limit. If Zuck had his way he wouldn't ever go public because he wants to create a global communication layer, not make loads of cash off users in advertising. He's only make money now so that his employees helping him change the world can make money doing it.
MySpace was a email spam company that almost went out of business when the CANSPAM law was passed. They pivoted into a social network after the popularity of Friendster in hopes to profit off the lucrative user data. Their entire mindset was "how do we profit off this data". Which showed in their willingness to bombard users with full screen takeover video ads, ads on the homepage, everywhere they could fit an ad they did. This dropped user engagement as users got pissed.
The difference is with FB is that they prioritize engagement over monetization. If an ad lowers engagement they will pull it. Their mission is to create a communities platform first, them monetize second. As long as they stay true to that, they will find ways to monetize that engagement.
MySpace couldn't scale their traffic. They constantly went down once they hit 150M users. As did Friendster. Facebook is doing 660M user PER DAY and never goes down. They are also in 80% of the top 150 iOS games and continually open source and publish engineering white papers that help the industry scale their infrastructure. They have the industries top engineers from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and VM all working there.
If you really think FB is like MySpace, you really don't understand this space and have no business trading this stock.
History of myspace: http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/14_myspace.html
MySpace CEO says, “Facebook will always be the social glue that brings everything together on mobile,” - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/myspace-founder-lauds-facebook-raps-zynga-2013-06-04
Is Amazon? Netflix?
Your opinion is based on zero facts. Their Daily Active Users and Monthly Active Users haven't declined in the history of the company.
Look at the graph. Weather is "utility" and all utility apps are 8%.
Read the graph and do REAL DD...
Declining? Nothing about FB is declining.
STUDY: Facebook Sponsored Stories Bring Results
The various types of sponsored stories offered by Facebook require more financial investment on the part of advertisers, but also deliver far better results, according to the findings of a new report by Salesforce.com, released Tuesday.
Salesforce.com analyzed the following types of Facebook ads, drawing its data from more than 1 million ad units from Jan. 1 through March 31, with more than 114 billion impressions:
Inline likes
Application ads
Page post ads
Mobile app install ads
Events
Page like sponsored stories
App action sponsored stories
Page post action sponsored stories
Page post like sponsored stories
Check-in sponsored stories
Findings by Salesforce.com included:
Click-through rates were well above average for several types of sponsored stories, including check-in stories and page post like stories.
App ads, click ads, event RSVPs, and inline likes generated low CTRs but were all inexpensive in terms of cost per impression.
Mobile app install ads delivered above-average cost per click and CPI.
Sponsored app action stories cost 25 percent more per app install when compared with their nonsponsored counterparts but drove app installs at a rate 5.7 times higher.
Sponsored page like stories cost 43 percent more per like than their nonsponsored counterparts but were 13.7 times more successful at delivering page likes.
http://allfacebook.com/salesforce-com-ad-benchmark-report_b119647
Facebook’s new advertising flow could help attract small businesses
Facebook wants to simplify advertising and place the focus on the objective, not the method. The company announced Thursday that it is turning its advertising model around and going from 27 types of ad units to less than half of that, making the goal of the ad the first thing an advertiser sees, rather than a list of types of ads. While this may not benefit major brands that habitually spend money on Facebook, these changes to Facebook’s ad flow could mean that more small businesses enter the fray, now that some of the complexities have been eliminated.
Fidji Simo, Facebook’s product manager for ads, said that Facebook is uniquely positioned to get marketers’ messages in front of the people who care about it. The company wants to make it easier for companies big and small to do that, so it is removing some of the barriers to entry.
When an advertiser wants to create a Facebook ad, Facebook will give them options for objectives. Since it’s hard for many marketers to immediately know the difference between a like ad and a sponsored story, Facebook wants to give advertisers a simple question — “What do you want to do?” Users can then select their objective, whether it’s to drive page likes, to gain more views for a video, to get more installs for their application or get more foot traffic.
There’s no set date for these changes, but Facebook told reporters Thursday that it should be in a couple weeks.
While a company previously may have used two or three types of ads to reach a goal, now Facebook wants to combine these methods and make it simpler.
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2013/06/07/facebook-advertising-flow-smbs/
They know how. Show more ads. But they have to do so slowly as to not drop user engagement. So they have to keep making their ad serving smarter and more relevant to users so they stay on their social networks (yes, plural, Instagram is another and they will most likely buy multiple others).
Shorts will lose... Proof:
Likes – 4.5 Billion – Up 67% – Average number of likes generated as of May 2013, up from 2.7 billion likes generated daily in August 2012
Content Items Shared – 4.75 Billion – Up 94% – Average number of content items shared daily as of May 2013, up from 2.45 content items shared daily in August 2012
Monthly Active Users – 1.11 Billion – up 23% – As of March 2013, up from 901 million MAUs in March 2012
Daily Active Users – 665 Million – up 26% – On average as of March 2013, up from 526 million DAUs on average in March 2012
Mobile Monthly Active Users – 751 Million – up 54% – As of March 2013, up from 488 million mobile MAUs in March 2012
Instagram – 100 Million Monthly Active Users – As of February 2013
Local Businesses – 16 Million – up 100% – Number of local business pages as of May 2013, up from 8 million in June 2012
Promoted Posts – 7.5 Million – Number of promoted posts made from June 2012 to May 2013
Revenue – $1.46 Billion – up 38% – In the first quarter of 2013, up from $1.06 billion in the first quarter of 2012
Ad Revenue – $1.25 Billion – up 43% – In the first quarter of 2013, up from $872 million in the first quarter of 2012
Employees – 4,900 – up 38% – As of March 2013, up from 3,539 in March 2012
Game Payers – 24% more – Increase from March 2012 to March 2013
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/facebook-growth/
Here's a Draft:
Douglas Tallant, CEO of Friendly Energy Exploration, local Brownwood company, Not so 'Friendly' with Stockholders
After putting out a press release that claimed Friendly Energy Exploration would be signing letters of intent to drill [ XX ] wells at [ XXX ] barrels per day, sending the stock soaring, has yet to update his stockholders.
If you see Douglas around town, be sure to give him a real big 'howdy' from his disgruntled investors.
Anyone wanna go half on an ad in his local newspaper? I can design in.
Facebook is eating their lunch. FB did $330M in mobile as revenue last quarter. Hence MM's slowed growth. Just my 2 cents.
Likes – 4.5 Billion – Up 67% – Average number of likes generated as of May 2013, up from 2.7 billion likes generated daily in August 2012
Content Items Shared – 4.75 Billion – Up 94% – Average number of content items shared daily as of May 2013, up from 2.45 content items shared daily in August 2012
Monthly Active Users – 1.11 Billion – up 23% – As of March 2013, up from 901 million MAUs in March 2012
Daily Active Users – 665 Million – up 26% – On average as of March 2013, up from 526 million DAUs on average in March 2012
Mobile Monthly Active Users – 751 Million – up 54% – As of March 2013, up from 488 million mobile MAUs in March 2012
Instagram – 100 Million Monthly Active Users – As of February 2013
Local Businesses – 16 Million – up 100% – Number of local business pages as of May 2013, up from 8 million in June 2012
Promoted Posts – 7.5 Million – Number of promoted posts made from June 2012 to May 2013
Revenue – $1.46 Billion – up 38% – In the first quarter of 2013, up from $1.06 billion in the first quarter of 2012
Ad Revenue – $1.25 Billion – up 43% – In the first quarter of 2013, up from $872 million in the first quarter of 2012
Employees – 4,900 – up 38% – As of March 2013, up from 3,539 in March 2012
Game Payers – 24% more – Increase from March 2012 to March 2013
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/facebook-growth/
Oh yea? That's not what the data says. Anecdotal much?
Hope you realize this company has the largest and richest amount of user data in the world and has barely turned on their monetization channels. They are slowly turning the heat up on the frog in the pot...
Adults? I'm 16
You do realize Our Dear Leader and the GOP is pushing to dissolve F&F, right? It's the Senate Dems that don't want to overhaul the GSEs.
Cheap? Yes. Easy to stop? Yes. But that doesn't mean companies don't do it. Just look at @TheHangoverShot -- case and point. It inflates their numbers so that investors and consumers think they are popular when they're not.
The product is real, I never denied that. Please re-read my post.
Because that's not capitalism, it's communism. And we're not China.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1719257
Joel Ewanick, GM Ad Chief Who Quit Facebook, Ousted
Sharon Silke Carty | Jul 30, 2012
General Motors fired the ad man who quit Facebook and spurned the Superbowl because he "failed to meet the expectations the company has of its employees," spokesman Greg Martin said in an email.
GM fired their CMO after pulling out of FB. He was an idiot.