Facebook pulled in $10.03 in ad revenue for each global user in 2014, compared with $5.48 for Twitter, according to a recent study by eMarketer. eMarketer pegged the average ad revenue per U.S. user at $34.68 for Facebook and $17.06 for Twitter in 2014, while non-U.S. users brought in $6.25 and $2.37, respectively. The researcher sees global social network ad spending reaching $25.14 billion in 2015, up from the April forecast of $23.68 billion, adding that it projects Facebook’s 2015 global ad revenues at $16.29 billion, which would represent a 41.8 percent jump versus 2014. eMarketer also said Instagram would account for 5 percent of Facebook’s worldwide mobile ad revenue in 2015, tallying $600 million, with that figure projected to skyrocket to $1.48 billion in 2016. As for Twitter, eMarketer projects a 61.8 percent rise in ad revenue in 2015, to $2.03 billion. eMarketer principal analyst Debra Aho Williamson said in a post on the study’s findings: Twitter’s slowing user growth is impacting its ad business. Twitter has improved its ad targeting capabilities, and it still has a lock on real-time conversation. However, advertisers want to reach a mass audience, and that’s harder to do on Twitter than on Facebook. Readers: What did you think of eMarketer’s findings? Image courtesy of Shutterstock.
According to a recent study by eMarketer, Facebook made $10 in ad revenue for each global user in 2014, compared to Twitter who made $5.5. The research found that global social network spending will reach $25bn in 2015, this is up from the April forecast of $23.7bn. Emarketer also predicts that Instagram will account for 5 percent of Facebook's worldwide mobile ad revenue in 2015, making $600m, a figure that is expected to rise to $1.5bn in 2016.