The Bulk of the money come from countries with the highest average advertising spend per person online.

for example, in the U.S., the total 2008 estimated Internet advertising spend was $25.2 billion. if you divide that by the number of people online in the U.S. according to Comscore (191 million), to get an average Internet spend per person of $132.Other countries data is as follows UK ($213), Australia ($148) and Denmark ($144).

What this means is  If a social network has more users in the U.S., Japan, the UK, Germany, Australia, and other bigger advertising networks, they are more likely to make more money than if they had say millions of users who dont spend money on advertising in Africa.

Kenya has more or less the same population as Poland 38 million people.But poland has 17 million internet users,while kenya has 3 million.Infact the 10 ten countries with highest internet users have a combination of give or take 40 million users.

From this,i think it is obvious where the money comes from.

There are other 17 ways you can make money from a social network.Advertising being the 18th........one which will gain momentum in near future is using social networks as CRM's.




On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Solomon Mburu <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:
If Facebook makes 225 million $, where does the bulk of this come
from? What about users per continent?

On 29/09/2009, Joseph McDonald <mcdonaldoj@gmail.com> wrote:
> Facebook makes 255 million dollars in profits
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> - Facebook monthly electricity bill = 1 Million USD  , and adds new
>> servers
>> every few days because users appetites for adding photos keeps growing.
>>
>> - Youtube monthly bandwidth consumption= 25PetaBytes ( 1000 Terabytes )
>>
>> I don't have the excat amounts but the above is a harsh reality of
>> operating such services. Though their financial standings show as mighty,
>> I
>> wonder how long can they sustain just running just on large adverts?
>>
>> Rgds.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Skunkworks mailing list
>> Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
>> Other services @ http://my.co.ke
>> Other lists
>> -------------
>> Announce:
>> http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce
>> Science:  http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science
>> kazi:     http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
>>
>


--
Solomon Mburu
P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi
Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041

Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all
the same way to the side of a hill!

AND

It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity!


blog: http://desires-and-dreams.blogspot.com
_______________________________________________
Skunkworks mailing list
Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke
http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks
Other services @ http://my.co.ke
Other lists
-------------
Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce
Science:  http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science
kazi:     http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general