Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
13 Mar 2017 Acquired Overture (with the Internet History Podcast!)
“If you look at, even today I think – I was looking at these numbers maybe six months ago and I think – so Google makes about 93-ish percent of their revenue from advertising and about 80 percent of that is search ads and about 20 percent of that is display ads.”
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- 13 Mar 2017
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…Interesting. If you look at, even today I think – I was looking at these numbers maybe six months ago and I think – so Google makes about 93-ish percent of their revenue from advertising and about 80 percent of that is search ads and about 20 percent of that is display ads. It’s interesting that like even though Google spent all that time sort of chasing the display ads business, their real cash cow is and continues to be search ads. So, could Yahoo do something really meaningful? Or could they have done something really meaningful on the display side? Only history knows. Well, and of course famously, Yahoo is kind of like – I don’t know what the right analogy is here of, you know, “always the bridesmaid, never the bride” or just what. But they famously attempted to acquire Facebook as well shortly after this.…
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