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Social Media Business Model Analysis - Case Tencent, Facebook, and Myspace
l Social Media Business Model Analysis - Case Tencent, Facebook, and Myspace

Logistics Master 's thesis Xiaoyan Hu 2011

Department of Information and Service Economy Aalto University School of Economics

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The term of social media is becoming increasingly popular presently, the amount of social media users is growing dramatically, and the monetization of social media has been discussed in publications but not in details. Nowadays, the most frequently used approach to make money for social media is online advertising. However, the successful company like Tencent proves other potentials of monetization. Because the business model is critical to make profit for a company, a company’s financial performance could be better achieved when it has a good business model. This study will focus on business models analysis of social media companies. The study is conducted based on three case companies, Tencent, Facebook, and Myspace. The objectives are to build the business model framework for social media services analysis, apply this framework into case companies to examine their business models and find out the best performed one, and finally to improve other two less well-performed companies’ business models. Case study, observations, focus group are main methods for collecting data and empirical analysis. Based on literature reviews of social media and business models, this paper formulates a new business model framework, it provides a structure for empirical case analysis. The framework is modified mainly based on Osterwalder’s (2002) e-business model ontology, and other three attributes have also been added into. New framework components include customer relationship, infrastructure management, product innovation, market considerations, technologies, regulations, and financial aspects. Through empirical studies on business models, Tencent emphasizes to focus on users’ personalization and provides integrated solutions, it achieves high financial return


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