{"id":18068,"date":"2017-07-27T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=18068"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:20:30","slug":"facebook-reports-second-quarter-2017-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/facebook-reports-second-quarter-2017-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook reports second quarter 2017 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We had a good second quarter and first half of the year,&#8221; said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. &#8220;Our community is now two billion people and we&#8217;re focusing on bringing the world closer together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The past 12 months have indeed been great for Facebook. In Q2, the company posted a net income increase totalling $3.894 billion compared to 2016&#8217;s $2.283 billion, which is a 71 percent increase. Revenue has also increased, with the company reporting a total of $9.321 billion,\u00a0a 45 percent year-on-year increase.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18069\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chartoftheday_10449_an_incredible_12_months_for_facebook_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chartoftheday_10449_an_incredible_12_months_for_facebook_n.jpg 960w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chartoftheday_10449_an_incredible_12_months_for_facebook_n-300x214.jpg 300w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chartoftheday_10449_an_incredible_12_months_for_facebook_n-768x547.jpg 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chartoftheday_10449_an_incredible_12_months_for_facebook_n-269x192.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the operational highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily active users (DAUs) \u2013 DAUs were 1.32 billion on average for June 2017, an increase of 17% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Monthly active users (MAUs) \u2013 MAUs were 2.01 billion as of June 30, 2017, an increase of 17% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Mobile advertising revenue \u2013 Mobile advertising revenue represented approximately 87% of advertising revenue for the second quarter of 2017, up from approximately 84% of advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We had a good second quarter and first half of the year,&#8221; said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. &#8220;Our community is now two billion people and we&#8217;re focusing on bringing the world closer together.&#8221; The past 12 months have indeed been great for Facebook. In Q2, the company posted a net income increase totalling<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/facebook-reports-second-quarter-2017-results\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,1934,2065],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18073,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions\/18073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}