Mediabistro’s SocialTimes Pro Publishes New Research Reports on the Emerging Facebook Economy & the New Relevance of Virtua...
July 06 2011 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Mediabistro.com (a division of WebMediaBrands Inc., Nasdaq:
WEBM) today announced its two latest Facebook research reports
entitled "The Facebook Economy: Tracking Startups and Investments
from '08-'11" and "How Facebook is Giving Virtual Worlds a Second
Life: Trends, Strategies and Opportunities."
One SocialTimes Pro report looks at how Facebook supports a
multi-billion dollar ecosystem of companies -- from brand and
agency partners like Buddy Media and appssavvy, to mobile and
social game developers' to startup incubators like Seedcamp -- that
otherwise wouldn't exist. Call it the "Facebook Economy." So how
did this economy develop, and what kinds of companies are being
pushed out of the market because of it? Are there really that many
well-funded social game companies? And how, specifically, is
Facebook influencing the way that investors evaluate other
verticals like e-commerce, advertising technology and content
management? SocialTimes Pro set out to answer these questions.
SocialTimes Pro also released a report on the new relevance of
virtual worlds. Given the triumph of Facebook and its paradigm of
an online, asynchronous network of real friends, many industry
analysts have assumed that virtual worlds are no longer relevant.
However, SocialTimes Pro finds this isn't the case. It
conservatively estimates there are at least 27 million monthly
active Facebook users who are associated with at least one virtual
world. Many leading virtual worlds from the '06-08 era have to a
large degree evolved to use Facebook as an acquisition, promotion,
and revenue generating channel, sometimes even integrating their
assets to run within Facebook itself. SocialTimes Pro provides case
studies and analysis to show how some leading virtual worlds have
adapted to and embraced the Facebook world.
SocialTimes Pro offers two monthly reports on topics related to
Facebook, Virtual Goods, and Social Gaming. SocialTimes Pro is
associated with Mediabistro’s AllFacebook.com and SocialTimes.com.
For more information, visit www.socialtimespro.com.
About WebMediaBrands Inc.
WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM)
(http://www.webmediabrands.com), headquartered in New York, NY, is
a leading Internet media company that provides content, education,
and career services to media and creative professionals through a
portfolio of vertical online properties, communities, and trade
shows. The Company’s online business includes:
(i) mediabistro.com, a leading blog network providing content,
education, community, and career resources (including the
industry’s leading online job board) about major media industry
verticals including new media, social media, Facebook, TV news,
sports news, advertising, public relations, publishing, design,
mobile, and the Semantic Web; (ii) InsideNetwork.com, a
leading network of online properties dedicated to providing
original market research, data services, news, events, and job
listings on the Facebook platform, social gaming, and mobile
applications ecosystems; and (iii) AllCreativeWorld.com, a leading
network of online properties providing content, education,
community, career, and other resources for creative and design
professionals. The Company’s online business also includes
community, membership and e-commerce offerings including a
freelance listing service, a marketplace for designing and
purchasing logos and premium membership services. The Company’s
trade show and educational offerings include conferences, online
and in-person courses, and video subscription libraries on topics
covered by the Company’s online business.
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www.webmediabrands.com/corporate/press.html
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