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Facebook by the numbers: a decade of dollars, people, & mobile

Facebook IPO
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Credit: Jolie O'Dell

In celebration of Facebook’s 10th anniversary, we’re taking a walk down memory lane.

Not the sentimental kind of walk; the mind-on-my-money kind.

It’s the least surprising news ever that Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth. Ever since the company’s IPO, we’ve been treated to quarter after quarter of success stories in ads, user numbers, and mobile domination.

All that’s left is for the social media company to beat Google at, well, anything numbers-related.

Here are a few fun snapshots of Facebook’s black-and-white bottom line.

Here, you can see some standout markets for Facebook’s international presence. The Middle East and Africa represent a hue geography, but no one country has proven to be a breakout success for the company.
The U.S. was once the only market for Facebook. Ten years later, North America is just a small part of Facebook’s userbase.
Facebook’s take of the online advertising market is growing so quickly that it dwarfs most of the company’s competitors’ share.
In this chart, you can see just how quickly Facebook came to grab a huge share of the multi-billion dollar mobile advertising market.

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