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Media companies: ad revenues 2018
Advertising revenue generated by selected media companies in 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
by A. Guttmann,
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Sep 6, 2019
According to financial filings for 2018, advertising revenue of 96.34 billion U.S. dollars generated by Google exceeded by far that of other media companies. That year Facebook generated 55 billion U.S. dollars in ad revenue while none of the companies in the list did not bring more than eight billion from advertising.
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by A. Guttmann,
last edited
Sep 6, 2019
According to financial filings for 2018, advertising revenue of 96.34 billion U.S. dollars generated by Google exceeded by far that of other media companies. That year Facebook generated 55 billion U.S. dollars in ad revenue while none of the companies in the list did not bring more than eight billion from advertising.
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