Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018 Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth
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The 20,000 Foot View: In 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those revenue segments but losing market share. Subscriptions were also a big part of the narrative; Amazon and Apple highlighted significant subscription growth underpinning their growing service businesses.
Key Findings
- Tech major 2018 revenues totalled billion, up from 2017 and from 2016
- All four tech majors except Facebook grew faster in 2018 than they did 2017
- Apple has the largest market share followed by Amazon Alphabet with Facebook the junior partner with just lost market share, dropping nine points across the two-year period, while Amazon gained five points, Facebook three points and Alphabet one point
- Tech major ad revenue totalled billion in 2018, up from 2017 – an acceleration on the Y-o-Y growth registered in 2017
- Facebook ad revenues were up YoY to reach billion, giving it a tech major ad revenue market share of up from in 2016
- Alphabet’s tech major market share of ad revenues also fell from in 2016 to in 2018
- Amazon ad revenue grew YoY in 2018 to reach billion, giving it a tech major ad revenue market share of around is pivoting towards content and services against the backdrop of a maturing core business. Services revenues now account for of group revenues
- In 2018 Apple’s Services revenue was billion, a increase YoY, giving it a leading tech major services market share of recorded billion services revenue in 2018, a YoY increase and a third-placed tech major market share of up from in 2016
- Alphabet ranked second in terms of 2018 services revenue, with billion, giving it a market share of five points up from in 2016
Companies and brands mentioned in this report: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook