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They had the 900 million dollar advertising deal with Google at one point.

As I said in response to another post, the 2006 Google-Myspace deal had minimum traffic requirements, thus it isn't clear that they made the $900M from Google:

http://mashable.com/2010/12/16/myspace-google-search-deal/

I've be interested in knowing whether the targets were met and how much Google paid Myspace in the end.

They did have revenue besides google - In 2007 MySpace had $1 billion in revenue.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2007/7/myspace-1b-of-r

The $1B in revenue is only an estimate based on projections and a continued growth trajectory. Not saying it isn't true, but it isn't a solid source for their actual revenue.

Did News Corporation annual filings every break out revenue from MySpace? Given that News Corporation is a public company, there should be solid numbers somewhere.

You are right, looking around some more, it looks like $1 billion was never reached. News Corp didn't break MySpace financials out, so all I can find some quotes from News Corp earnings calls. Looks like 2008 numbers were in the ~$200 million range per quarter, "FIM/MySpace: $225M, up 23% y/y, up consecutively from $210M in Q3, but still not as high as $233M in Q2."

http://www.techfeed24.com/2008/08/05/news-corp-q4-tv-terribl...

Interesting. Thats still around 800 Mio revenue in 2008. For 2010 I did find:

> "In its 2010 fiscal report, News Corp. said that revenues from its “Other” segment, where MySpace lives, were down 36 percent to $1.5 billion. The segment booked a loss of $575 million, greater than the year before when it lost $212 million."

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