Just for fun, I’m compiling a list of numbers of the annual revenues of Internet and software companies. Here what I have so far:
World of Warcraft announced that the the 7.5 million players (paid, active) online. US monthly fees are $13-15 (Wikipedia). That means that WoW makes about 7.5x$13×12 = $1.17 billion a year from monthly fees alone.
That puts a single game in the same ballpark as products from other tech companies…
Google reported making $6 billion in 2005 up from $1.5 Billion in 2003.
One blogger speculates that YouTube could be raking in as much as $440 million in annual revenue.
From October 2005 to September 2006, Apple sold 39 million iPods. That’s at LEAST 39x$79 (for a shuffle) = $3.081 billion and at MOST 39x$279 $10.881 billion.
Apple has also sold about a billion songs in the same period. That’s almost a $1 billion dollars in revenue.
I wonder long it will take before other revenue models like Micropayments and In-Game Ads take off in terms of popularity and revenue.
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