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新冠疫情改变消费习惯,Facebook获益匪浅

新冠疫情改变消费习惯,Facebook获益匪浅

Naomi Nix, 彭博社 2021-05-06
Facebook今年第一季度的销售额增长48%,超出了分析师的预期。

零售商和其他广告商一直在寻求获取Facebook数十亿用户的注意力,受益于这一强劲需求,Facebook今年第一季度的销售额增长48%,超出了分析师的预期。

4月28日,Facebook发布2021年一季度财报。数据显示,其当季营收为262亿美元。彭博社(Bloomberg)汇编的数据显示,这个数字超出了分析师237亿美元的平均预期。Facebook称其月活跃用户达到了28.5亿人,同比增长10%。分析师的预测数为28.3亿。受此影响,公司股价盘后一度涨超6%。

对总部位于美国加利福尼亚州门洛帕克的Facebook来说,其家庭娱乐以及亲人联络平台的使用率在人们居家隔离时出现了激增。大型广告商则将更多的营销预算注入社交媒体网站,而小企业也加速了数字外展工作,以吸引潜在的客户。

到目前为止,随着新冠疫情的缓解,即便消费者的线下活动有所回归,公司的业务也并未出现放缓迹象。Facebook称,每支广告的平均价格在第一季度同比上涨了30%,而且已经发布的广告数量亦增长了12%。

彭博行业研究(Bloomberg Intelligence)的分析师曼迪普·辛吉说:“广告价格的规律非常明显。这些广告商可能是在看到这段时期的高参与和用户增长之后闻风赶来”,他还表示,但“广告价格或将继续维持上扬趋势。”

Facebook的股价在纽约收于307.10美元,在营收报告发布之后的延续交易中飙升至328.40美元。其股价今年已经上涨了12%,略高于标普500指数(S&P 500 Index)的增幅。

该公司称,第一季度净利润增至95亿美元,摊薄后每股盈利3.3美元。分析师预测其每股平均盈利为2.34美元。

在这一声明中,Facebook表示,当前时期的销售额将保持稳定,或较第一季度有所加速,但也再次警告说,增长可能在2021年下半年停滞。与此同时,该公司再次提到了其广告业务的潜在风险,因为苹果公司(Apple Inc.)在iPhone和其他设备上设置了隐私限制,此举可能会削弱这家社交媒体巨头搜集用户数据的能力,而该能力是其靶向广告模式的动力源。

苹果的iOs14.5版软件更新将要求各大应用程序在跟踪用户网络活动行踪前获得用户明确的许可。Facebook的高管称,他们认为很多用户将选择拒绝跟踪,这样便会增加广告客户精确制定其外展宣传活动的难度。

“这一更新会影响小企业有效使用其广告预算的能力,我们依然对此十分担忧。”首席财务官大卫·维纳在报告发布后的电话会议上说,“但即便如此,我们认为此举对公司业务的影响将是可控的。”

Facebook表示,今年的支出范围为700亿美元至730亿美元,较此前680亿美元至730亿美元的预测有所收窄。这家社交网络还提到了对技术和产品人才、基础设施以及消费硬件的投资。

Facebook的首席执行官马克·扎克伯格在电话会议上说,他对虚拟和增强现实的前景感到十分振奋,并认为这个领域将成为智能手机之后的下一个伟大科技平台。扎克伯格称,Facebook Oculus Quest 2头戴设备的销量一直都不错,而且公司看到市场对其头戴设备的兴趣正在上涨,因为该设备无需连线。

该公司的其他营收门类包括广告之外的产品,在本季度增长了146%,达到了7.32亿美元。

扎克伯格还表示,在未来10年中,通过在眼镜框中整合“超级计算机”来提供增强现实体验,将是一个巨大的挑战。Facebook正准备在年底推出“智能眼镜”,但该产品还不会整合大量的增强现实功能。该技术将在真实世界中叠加数字影像和信息。

目前,Facebook一直在通过增强现实和购物这类迅速发展的服务,来实现未来增长。公司已经受益于其电商业务的兴起,因为消费者越来越倾向于通过网购来避免实体店接触新冠病毒风险。为了满足这一需求,Facebook去年重新投资了其购物服务,此举让零售商能够向Facebook页面或Instagram个人资料页面上载其产品目录。

然而,公司正面临着巨大的监管压力,因为美国联邦贸易委员会(U.S. Federal Trade Commission)和数十家州检察官发起了反垄断诉讼,旨在结束其对Instagram和 WhatsApp的收购。

今年3月,扎克伯格因为公司针对13岁以下儿童打造照片分享应用程序Instagram儿童版的计划,遭到了美国立法人员的严苛质疑。因为这个年龄组当前被禁止使用Facebook的大多数平台。

另外在今年早些时候,Facebook还宣布,公司将打造一系列新的音频服务,以便与推特(Twitter)和大热初创企业Clubhouse这样的社交媒体竞争对手开展竞争。音频服务将包括可以让用户举办现场讨论的虚拟房间,以及一个名为Soundbites的功能,能够让用户像发照片或视频一样,在其消息中发布短音频片段。

最近,Facebook一直在实验不同的方式来提振其视频广告服务,以吸引热门社交媒体影响力人士,并与字节跳动旗下TikTok和Snap这类初出茅庐的对手展开竞争。该公司称,通过其收入分享项目月入1万美元的内容创作者的数量在2020年增长了88%,而月入1000美元的创作者数量增长了94%。(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

零售商和其他广告商一直在寻求获取Facebook数十亿用户的注意力,受益于这一强劲需求,Facebook今年第一季度的销售额增长48%,超出了分析师的预期。

4月28日,Facebook发布2021年一季度财报。数据显示,其当季营收为262亿美元。彭博社(Bloomberg)汇编的数据显示,这个数字超出了分析师237亿美元的平均预期。Facebook称其月活跃用户达到了28.5亿人,同比增长10%。分析师的预测数为28.3亿。受此影响,公司股价盘后一度涨超6%。

对总部位于美国加利福尼亚州门洛帕克的Facebook来说,其家庭娱乐以及亲人联络平台的使用率在人们居家隔离时出现了激增。大型广告商则将更多的营销预算注入社交媒体网站,而小企业也加速了数字外展工作,以吸引潜在的客户。

到目前为止,随着新冠疫情的缓解,即便消费者的线下活动有所回归,公司的业务也并未出现放缓迹象。Facebook称,每支广告的平均价格在第一季度同比上涨了30%,而且已经发布的广告数量亦增长了12%。

彭博行业研究(Bloomberg Intelligence)的分析师曼迪普·辛吉说:“广告价格的规律非常明显。这些广告商可能是在看到这段时期的高参与和用户增长之后闻风赶来”,他还表示,但“广告价格或将继续维持上扬趋势。”

Facebook的股价在纽约收于307.10美元,在营收报告发布之后的延续交易中飙升至328.40美元。其股价今年已经上涨了12%,略高于标普500指数(S&P 500 Index)的增幅。

该公司称,第一季度净利润增至95亿美元,摊薄后每股盈利3.3美元。分析师预测其每股平均盈利为2.34美元。

在这一声明中,Facebook表示,当前时期的销售额将保持稳定,或较第一季度有所加速,但也再次警告说,增长可能在2021年下半年停滞。与此同时,该公司再次提到了其广告业务的潜在风险,因为苹果公司(Apple Inc.)在iPhone和其他设备上设置了隐私限制,此举可能会削弱这家社交媒体巨头搜集用户数据的能力,而该能力是其靶向广告模式的动力源。

苹果的iOs14.5版软件更新将要求各大应用程序在跟踪用户网络活动行踪前获得用户明确的许可。Facebook的高管称,他们认为很多用户将选择拒绝跟踪,这样便会增加广告客户精确制定其外展宣传活动的难度。

“这一更新会影响小企业有效使用其广告预算的能力,我们依然对此十分担忧。”首席财务官大卫·维纳在报告发布后的电话会议上说,“但即便如此,我们认为此举对公司业务的影响将是可控的。”

Facebook表示,今年的支出范围为700亿美元至730亿美元,较此前680亿美元至730亿美元的预测有所收窄。这家社交网络还提到了对技术和产品人才、基础设施以及消费硬件的投资。

Facebook的首席执行官马克·扎克伯格在电话会议上说,他对虚拟和增强现实的前景感到十分振奋,并认为这个领域将成为智能手机之后的下一个伟大科技平台。扎克伯格称,Facebook Oculus Quest 2头戴设备的销量一直都不错,而且公司看到市场对其头戴设备的兴趣正在上涨,因为该设备无需连线。

该公司的其他营收门类包括广告之外的产品,在本季度增长了146%,达到了7.32亿美元。

扎克伯格还表示,在未来10年中,通过在眼镜框中整合“超级计算机”来提供增强现实体验,将是一个巨大的挑战。Facebook正准备在年底推出“智能眼镜”,但该产品还不会整合大量的增强现实功能。该技术将在真实世界中叠加数字影像和信息。

目前,Facebook一直在通过增强现实和购物这类迅速发展的服务,来实现未来增长。公司已经受益于其电商业务的兴起,因为消费者越来越倾向于通过网购来避免实体店接触新冠病毒风险。为了满足这一需求,Facebook去年重新投资了其购物服务,此举让零售商能够向Facebook页面或Instagram个人资料页面上载其产品目录。

然而,公司正面临着巨大的监管压力,因为美国联邦贸易委员会(U.S. Federal Trade Commission)和数十家州检察官发起了反垄断诉讼,旨在结束其对Instagram和 WhatsApp的收购。

今年3月,扎克伯格因为公司针对13岁以下儿童打造照片分享应用程序Instagram儿童版的计划,遭到了美国立法人员的严苛质疑。因为这个年龄组当前被禁止使用Facebook的大多数平台。

另外在今年早些时候,Facebook还宣布,公司将打造一系列新的音频服务,以便与推特(Twitter)和大热初创企业Clubhouse这样的社交媒体竞争对手开展竞争。音频服务将包括可以让用户举办现场讨论的虚拟房间,以及一个名为Soundbites的功能,能够让用户像发照片或视频一样,在其消息中发布短音频片段。

最近,Facebook一直在实验不同的方式来提振其视频广告服务,以吸引热门社交媒体影响力人士,并与字节跳动旗下TikTok和Snap这类初出茅庐的对手展开竞争。该公司称,通过其收入分享项目月入1万美元的内容创作者的数量在2020年增长了88%,而月入1000美元的创作者数量增长了94%。(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

Facebook’s first-quarter sales rose 48%, surging past analysts’ estimates thanks to strong demand from retailers and other advertisers seeking to grab attention from the social network’s billions of users.

Revenue climbed to $26.2 billion, the company said on April 28 in a statement. That dwarfed the $23.7 billion average estimate of analysts, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Facebook reported 2.85 billion monthly active users, a rise of 10%. Analysts projected 2.83 billion. Shares jumped more than 6% in late trading.

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has seen a surge in use of its platforms for at-home entertainment and keeping up with loved ones while people have been stuck in lockdown. Larger advertisers have shifted more of their marketing budgets to social media sites, while small businesses ramped up digital outreach to tap potential customers.

So far, the company hasn’t seen a slowdown even as consumers return to more offline activities as the pandemic begins to subside. The average price per ad rose 30% in the first quarter from a year earlier, Facebook said, and the number of ads delivered notched up 12%.

“The beat was really pronounced in terms of ad pricing,” said Mandeep Singh, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst. “They are probably coming towards the tail end of this stretch of high engagement and user growth,” he added, but “the ad pricing tailwinds should persist.”

The company’s shares, which closed at $307.10 in New York, jumped as high as $328.40 in extended trading following the earnings report. The stock has gained 12% this year, slightly ahead of the increase in the S&P 500 Index.

Net income in the March quarter rose to $9.5 billion, or $3.30 a share, Facebook said. Analysts on average had projected $2.34 in per-share profit.

In the statement, Facebook said sales in the current period will remain steady or accelerate from the first quarter, but repeated its caution that growth may stall in the second half of 2021. Facebook also again noted the potential risk to its advertising business as Apple Inc. adds privacy restrictions on iPhones and other devices that could chip away at the social media giant’s ability to collect user data, which powers its targeted advertising model.

Apple’s iOS 14.5 software update is requiring apps to get explicit user permission to track their activity across the web. Facebook executives have said they believe many users will opt out of this tracking, making it harder for advertising customers to precisely tailor their outreach campaigns.

“We continue to be concerned about the impact this update is going to have on the ability of small businesses to use their advertising budgets effectively,” Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said on a conference call after the report. “That said, we think the impact on our business will be manageable.”

Expenses for the year will be $70 billion to $73 billion, Facebook said, narrowing a prior forecast of $68 billion to $73 billion. The social network cited investments in technical and product talent, infrastructure and consumer hardware.

Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call that he is excited about the prospect of virtual and augmented reality, which he believes will be the next great technology platform after the smartphone. Sales of Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset have been good, Zuckerberg said, and the company has seen more interest in the headset because it doesn’t have wires or cables.

Facebook’s “other” revenue category, which includes products outside of advertising, gained 146% to $732 million in the quarter.

Zuckerberg also said it will be a tremendous challenge over the next decade to fit a “super computer” into glasses frames to produce an augmented-reality experience. Facebook is preparing to release a pair of “smart glasses” later this year, but those won’t include a lot of AR features just yet. Augmented reality superimposes digital images and information onto the real world.

Facebook has been chasing future growth from burgeoning services like augmented reality and shopping. It’s already benefiting from the e-commerce boom as consumers increasingly turn to the web to avoid the risk of Covid-19 in person at brick-and-mortar stores. To meet that demand, Facebook last year reinvested in its shopping services, which let retailers upload product catalogs to their Facebook page or Instagram profile.

Still, the company is confronting significant regulatory pressures as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and dozens of state attorneys general pursue antitrust lawsuits that seek to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.

Zuckerberg faced tough questioning from U.S. lawmakers in March over the company’s plan to build a version of photo-sharing app Instagram specifically for children younger than 13 -- an age group that is currently prohibited from using most of its platforms.

Earlier this month, Facebook announced it is building a series of new audio-focused products to compete with social media rivals such as Twitter Inc. and popular upstart Clubhouse. The audio products would include virtual rooms where users can host live discussions, and a feature called Soundbites that lets users post short audio snippets to their feeds like they would a photo or video.

Recently, Facebook has been experimenting with different ways to bolster its video-advertising offerings to attract popular social-media influencers as it competes with younger rivals such as ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok and Snap Inc. Facebook has said the number of content creators earning $10,000 a month from its revenue-sharing programs grew 88% in 2020, while creators pulling in $1,000 a month grew 94%.

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