Top Internet Brands by Market Value
The top internet brands, by market value, are listed below. The January 2011 market capitalisation is brought into focus by Goldman Sachs purchase of $450m shares in Facebook.
Internet Brands
Google $ 190bn
Amazon $ 81bn
Facebook $ 50bn
Ebay $ 36bn
Yahoo $ 22bn
Source Daily Telegraph Business Jan 4th 2011.
Key to these Brand Values
- People, particularly customers are the most important part of these brands.
- They have captured the imagination of large numbers of users and delivered on the emotional promise to them.
- Technically they have reached preeminent positions, with refined product offering, so that they ‘Own the Space’ for their sector of the market.
- They all retain ‘Hope Value’ of better financial returns to come.
Health Warning
- The market place is fast moving.
- There may be a further technology stock boom during the next couple of years but I am not betting my pension fund on these companies.