Comparing 2006 and 2007, Efficient Frontier found that out of every dollay in incremental spending advertisers were putting online, Google was taking 97cents, Microsoft was taking 6 cents and Yahoo was LOSING 3 cents.
In 2007 Yahoo was visited by more than 130 million people and had sales close to $7billion.
According to research company Park Associates, social networks can earn between 25pence and £2.50 per year for each unique user.
Between Oct 26 and Nov 25 2007, Facebook usership grew by:
466% in Turkey
171% in Israel
109% in France
87% in China
31% in Saudi Arabia
24% in Pakistan
18% in UK
More than 24 million Britons access Social Networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
Bebo has the largest share with 11.2 million in the UK (out of 18million overall).
MySpace has 10million British users (out of 110million overall).
Facebook has 7million British users (out of 62million overall).
The British spend approximately 5.3 hours a month each on Social Networks.
