{"id":209196,"date":"2017-05-04T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T08:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209196"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T08:47:10","slug":"facebooks-impressive-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/209196-facebooks-impressive-numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s impressive numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s21.q4cdn.com\/399680738\/files\/doc_financials\/2017\/Facebook-Reports-First-Quarter-2017-Results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook has reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0its financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 2017, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as a good start to the year.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s daily active users were 1.28 billion on average for March 2017, an increase of 18% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly active users were 1.94 billion as of 31 March 2017, an increase of 17% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile advertising has shown continued growth, and its revenue represented approximately 85% of advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This is compared to\u00a0approximately 82% of advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s capital expenditures for the first quarter of 2017 were $1.27 billion, and the company now employs 18,770 people.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208492-how-facebook-stories-could-drive-away-the-cool-kids.html\">How Facebook Stories could drive away the cool kids<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is closing in on 2 billion active monthly users, an increase of 17% year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,1767],"class_list":["post-209196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209236,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209196\/revisions\/209236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}