{"id":470,"date":"2012-04-23T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:18:04","slug":"zynga-responsible-for-11-of-facebook-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/zynga-responsible-for-11-of-facebook-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Zynga Games Are 11% of Facebook&#8217;s Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_471\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/facebook-creditsWP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"256\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zynga account for a significant number of FaceBook Credits sold.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APRIL 23, 2012<strong> \u25cf<\/strong> For the three months ending March 31st, Facebook recorded $1.06 billion in first quarter revenue. More interestingly, virtual item sales from Zynga games, and Zynga advertising, accounted for 11%, or $116.6 million of Facebook&#8217;s first-quarter revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Facebook and Zynga go hand and hand.\u00a0 No other company comes close in the games on Facebook and Facebook gets 30% of games that use Facebook Credits.\u00a0 The problem is Zynga is not tending very strong and as Zynga and Facebook both become public companies there is real potential for each of them to pull the other one down.\u00a0 In short, bad news about Facebook will hurt Zynga and vice versa.\u00a0 What investors need to be worried about is a chain effect of bad news from the two companies.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 23, 2012 \u25cf For the three months ending March 31st, Facebook recorded $1.06 billion in first quarter revenue. More interestingly, virtual item sales from Zynga games, and Zynga advertising, accounted for 11%, or $116.6 million of Facebook&#8217;s first-quarter revenue. Impact: Facebook and Zynga go hand and hand.\u00a0 No other company comes close in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168,78,66],"tags":[142,88,424,130,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16434,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/16434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}