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What you really want to ask about is the ARPU metric, or Average Revenue Per User:

https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...

Google gets revenues of about $256 per user per year, mostly from search ad impressions. That's the context for this $15 per user deal; their ROI is nearly 20x.

For context, Apple makes about $30 on services like iCloud per user; if you factor in hardware sales every 2 years or so their revenue is $194/user/year. Facebook makes about $112 per US/Canadian user. Amazon is the big ARPU winner, making $752 per user per year based on $120/year Prime memberships plus sellers giving them their fee of approximately 15% fee + $5 shipping prices.



Yes, indeed, I was curious to see these data.

Thanks for providing a link.




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