Skyrock y cómo rentabilizar redes sociales
Last year, Skyrock as a group made €38m in revenue; half coming from its radio operations, and half from the internet; with an ebitda of about €7m for the group and €5-6m for the internet alone (last year was not great for radio advertising). Even better, Skyrock doesn’t seem to be affected by the worst year in internet history: its internet operations revenue is up 42% for the first half of 2009 versus the same period last year (the radio side is up 22%). These numbers make its owners happy. The group is a privately held company owned by the private equity arm of French insurer Axa (for 70%) and by the founder and CEO Pierre Bellanger (30%); being blissfully private, it doesn’t release financials. Most of the data mentioned here come from interviews conducted with Pierre Bellanger and his staff in recent weeks. How can Skyrock thrive in such devastated online environment ?

The short answer is: by adapting its relationships, both to its customers and to the advertising community. For a blog platform or social network, page views are measured in billions per month. Nielsen gives Skyrock 1.2bn page views, Comscore 4.4bn, both for the French market, and 5.6bn worldwide. Nielsen grossly underestimates young audiences, it ignores people with only a cellphone subscription; such disregard explains the discrepancies between Nielsen and Comscore measurements. Until recently, the obvious business model was capitalizing on this huge traffic by selling advertisers audiences with inexpensive CPM (Cost per Thousand). Then, two problems arose: CPM became structurally cheaper as global inventories kept growing, and the financial crisis relentlessly pushed prices further down. For Skyrock, as for everybody else, it was time to update the model.

El modelo Gartner Hype Cycle, adaptado a Facebook

En 2007, cuando la red social era valorada en US$15 millones

Facebook suma 700 mil nuevos usuarios diarios y Facebook Connect ya es un éxito. El modelo comienza a afirmarse

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