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answerly, you really lived up to your name :) Silly me. I posted this too quickly without reading the full release. Also of interest, further down: "TAC - Tr
by marcamillion 16y ago
answerly, you really lived up to your name :)
Silly me. I posted this too quickly without reading the full release.
Also of interest, further down:
"TAC - Traffic Acquisition Costs, the portion of revenues shared with Google’s partners, increased to $1.81 billion in the third quarter of 2010, compared to TAC of $1.56 billion in the third quarter of 2009. TAC as a percentage of advertising revenues was 26% in the third quarter of 2010, compared to 27% in the third quarter of 2009.
The majority of TAC is related to amounts ultimately paid to our AdSense partners, which totaled $1.52 billion in the third quarter of 2010. TAC also includes amounts ultimately paid to certain distribution partners and others who direct traffic to our website, which totaled $285 million in the third quarter of 2010."
- marcamillion 16y agoThis is actually an interesting reveal. Is this something Google has disclosed before? As far as I knew, they typically didn't disclose how much % of every dollar they give their Adsense partners. But they essentially just revealed that $0.21 of every dollar from an Adsense lead/click goes to partners. This is VERY interesting...especially considering that Apple gives $0.70 to app developers.
- answerly 16y agoI think they have been reporting aggregate numbers like this for a while. IIRC TAC as a % of revenue has been consistently decreasing over the last several years.