How does facebook make its money?

[♡ orange girl ♡]

i mean, we dont pay for facebook, so how do the creators make so much money?

[Raven]

Adverts

[SkilledPanda]

Advertisements, businesses pay for accounts, and overall selling your info to places that love to buy it.

[MrBen]

Adverts adverts adverts!

[cereal box]

Mostly through advertisements and similar promotional opportunities

[Brooksie]

Adverts. As a general rule of thumb if you're not paying for something you're the product.

[kitty in the sink]

Ads, games, sponsored links, people paying to promote certain stories - they have a lot of ways to make money, including selling their stock, which hasn’t done so well.

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[Anne]

Advertisements, any purchases people make inside Facebook games. You can buy Facebook credits to spend on games. And now you can also buy gift cards for friends through Facebook.

[skinnydowntown679]

Mostly adverts on a pay per click basis (you click on an advert the advertiser pays facebook). If there are 100,000,000 people wordwide using facebook (I forget the numbers, but they are huge) and 1% click on an advert each day, that is 1,000,000 clicks per day. Now pay per click isn't cheap, could be 5 cents a click, could be 10 - say 10 to make sums easier, they take in $100,000 a day from adverts, $36,000,000 a year if just 1% of people click on a 10c advert. With very low overheads from this income most of this is pure profit (ie they have no raw materials to supply, no goods to ship and so on)

You can look at games as adverts too - eventually the games makers willpay facebook

[Bradley]

There are advirtisements on the side of the news feed. That is how they get their money.