On the weekend I went and deployed my first Sold State Drive Array. 15 Mtron 32GB SSD drives in a MD1000 enclosure. Plentyoffish has a lot of images on every single page, unlike most dating sites. As a result i’m serving 5,500 images per second at peak and 50-60,000 new images being uploaded per day. Anyone else doing anything fancy with image serving ? Aside from the database, images are the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to running the site.
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080313/bebo-by-the-not-so-big-numbers/
2006. $ 7 million revenue 3 Million EBITDA.
2007 $20 million in revenues $5 million in EBITDA.
Bebo has 12 Billion monthly pageviews which comes out to about 1.7 million dollars a month or 14 cents CPM site wide. Looking at comscores numbers, Bebo’s traffic has been declining since last June. Bebo’s strongest market is the UK and the currency exchange rate right now is 2:1.
“Projecting outward, the company estimated–remember, these are not actual numbers, but a best guess by Bebo execs–it would have $50 million in revenue and $10 million in EBITDA in 2008; $117 million in revenue and $48 million in revenue in 2009 and $193 million in revenue and $92 million in EBITDA in 2010.”
Given that the traffic at least according to comscore has been declining since last year I don’t see how bebo could hit 50 million in revenue unless Yahoo is forking over a ton of money for Bebo’s inventory in the UK.
Google soft released Google Admanager today. It works extremely well, for some reason all the important features aren’t even discussed in the WSJ article or elsewhere on the web. I expect once released fully it will become the biggest ad server in a short amount of time, because if you use adsense and don’t use it you will miss out on making more money.
Bebo sold for 850 million to AOL this morning.
Compete.com says bebo had 19 million visitors in the US last month compared to Plentyoffish’s 29 million. Bebo’s year over year growth in the US was 3%. At 19 million monthly visitors Bebo is the 3rd largest social network in the US.. Looks like a winner take all situation in the US for social networking.
David writes about trues new advertising here… This time its all about T&A they don’t even bother showing faces.
http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2008/03/truecom-no-more-faces/
I think this year we will see a lot of dating sites try harder and harder to stay in business and push more towards adult like sites.
