Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results
here's what the analysts are saying Chris Mellor / The Register : SanDisk struggles to fatten itself up ahead of WD takeover Greg Sterling / Marketing Land : Mobile Ad Growth Of 81% Drove Facebook's Huge Fourth Quarter David Kirkpatrick / Marketing Dive : Facebook users watch 100 million hours of video per day Mike Isaac / New York Times : Facebook Reports Soaring Revenue, Buoyed by Mobile Ads Shira Ovide / Bloomberg Business : Facebook Cranks Up Its Ad Machine Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook reports record Q4 earnings; Mark Zuckerberg becomes 6th richest person in the world PYMNTS.com : Mobile Takes Center Stage In Facebook Earnings (Payments Is A Bit Player) Alyssa Navarro / Tech Times : Increase In Mobile And Video Views Leads To 12 Percent Surge In Facebook Shares Nick Farrell / TechEye : Ebay can't find anyone to do its evil bidding Michael Rundle / Wired.co.uk : Get angry: Facebook ‘Reactions’ will launch in ‘a few weeks’ Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Facebook Spikes 12% After Smashing Q4 Earnings Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Releases 4th Quarter and Full-Year Results for 2015 Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing : Facebook's fourth-quarter earnings smash Wall Street expectations Kurt Wagner / Re/code : Facebook's Q4 Earnings: You're More Valuable to Facebook Than Ever Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes : Facebook Shares Soar After Record Fourth-Quarter Results Deepanshu Khandelwal / The Tech Portal : Facebook Reports $5.8 Billion In Revenues, MAUs Hit A Massive 1.59 Billion Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Up up up: Facebook Q4 financials break records as revenue surges Scott Ard / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Facebook stock pops on strong earnings, user growth David Cohen / SocialTimes : Facebook Q4 Ad Spend More Than Doubled Year-Over-Year (Report) Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint : Whoa! Most of Facebook's 1B daily active users log on from mobile devices BBC : Facebook doubles fourth quarter profits to $1.56bn Nicole Lee / Engadget : Facebook's growth is apparently unstoppable ABC News : Facebook is growing at an exceptional pace as it enters adolescence … Les Shu / Digital Trends : Facebook announces record 2015 profits, driven by increases in mobile Patrick O'Rourke / MobileSyrup.com : Facebook Q4 2015 results: $5.84b in revenue, 1.44b mobile users Napier Lopez / The Next Web : 90% of Facebook's daily active users access it via mobile Zak Stambor / internetretailer.com : Facebook's mobile ad business grows 82% in Q4 Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Facebook crushes Q4 earnings expectations with $5.8B in revenue and 1.59B users Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Over half of Facebook users access the service only on mobile Casey Newton / The Verge : Facebook earned record profits in 2015 Alexei Oreskovic / Business Insider : eBay's stock is tanking after its Q4 earnings report (ebay) Brett Molina / USA Today : Tech Five: Facebook leads another big earnings day Tweets: Clive Thompson / @pomeranian99 : Facebook made $3.73 per user in Q4 2015: http://recode.net/... If you spend an average 20 mins/day on the site http://www.businessinsider.com/ ... 1/2 @mikeisaac : for perspective: Q4 of 2012, mobile ad revs = 23 percent of FB's ad biz. Q4 of 2015, mobile ad revs = 80 percent of FB's ad biz. Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan : With Facebook getting 80% of revenue from mobile, how long until someone declares it has desktop problem :) http://www.techmeme.com/... Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : 98 of the top 100 advertisers on Facebook also advertised on Instagram in Q4 $FB Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : Zuckerberg: more than 80 million people now use Facebook Light, as of December. Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : Facebook responds to YouTube critics - reports watch time like YouTube does: 100 million hours of video watched daily. Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : seriously how can one ever hope to even maybe slightly contain facebook? seriously. pic.twitter.com/PvKSSdpfzH Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : that said, look at avg rev per user. It's the highest it's ever been in Asia, but not close to what $FB makes in US pic.twitter.com/IHZbrw5mgi Emil Protalinski / @epro : 51% of Facebook users access the service only via mobile http://venturebeat.com/... 80% of $FB's ad revenue is mobile pic.twitter.com/QIMFkTESnm Jeff Macke / @jeffmacke : I'm impressed with the part where Zuck doesn't mention currency exchange headwinds. $FB http://investor.fb.com/... http://twitter.com/... Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff : Facebook now has 1.44 billion MOBILE monthly active users. http://investor.fb.com/... #FacebookEarnings See also Mediagazer