How much money is generated annually by successful online companies?

Question

I'm doing research and am trying to find corporate earnings that top websites earn through selling advertised spaces (from my.space, google, yahoo, to TMZ, Flikr, mail...and so on). How much can a company really earn through selling advertisements on websites?

Answer 1

Big companies earn big from online advertising

For the quarter, Google earned $1.25 billion mostly from search ads (Adwords + Adsense earnings)

Take this table of top Russian websites for example. Yandex.com in 2007 earned $167 million

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.sht...

Some of the companies you mentioned such as Facebook are private companies, so they don't publish their earnings

Answer 2

Its not fixed. A lot of things depend on what are your business participles. An honest online business gets a little profit at the beginning but over the period it strengthen its root by establishing credibility in the market.

And there are vast number of ways in which you can earn from an online business.