The following set of questions are being asked about each of these companies:
Facebook
Yelp
Squidoo
MySpace
Epinions
YouTube
Google Video
What are the monthly and yearly revenue figures for each business?
What are the operating costs of each business?
How many unique visitors does each site receive daily, monthly and
yearly (Please define a unique visitor.)?
How many hits does each receive daily, monthly and yearly?
How long does the average user stay on each site?
How much bandwidth does each website go through every month?
How many servers does each site maintain?
Where does the revenue that these companies generate come from? How
much revenue (in percentage terms) comes from each companies' use of
various forms of online advertising, such as affiliate advertising,
banners, interstitials, click-throughs, etc, etc?
On average, how much is each user visit worth (in cents) to each company?
How much does it cost to advertise on each site--in instances where
there are multiple avenues to advertise (e.g. banner, click-through,
pop-ups) please list the individual rates.
Please provide 2 sources for each answer if the answers are not from
the individual companies themselves. In instances where math is
involved to derive an answer, please show the work.
I'm really not this cold in person, but it's so much easier to be
crystal clear when you come off as a robot. Thanks for your time. |