One look at the charts below and one should start wondering just how viable is social media any more as a business model.
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Which brings us to to what we reported a week ago were the prophetic words of Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel [6], who just may have missed his IPO window...
When the market for tech stocks cools, Facebook market cap will plummet, access to capital for unproven businesses will become inaccessible, and ad spend on user acquisition will rapidly decrease - compounding problems for Facebook and driving stock even lower. Instagram may be only saving grace if they are able to ramp advertising product fast enough. Total internet advertising spend cannot justify outsized valuations of social media products that derive revenue from advertising. Feed-based advertising units will plummet in value (in the case of Twitter, advertising spend may not move beyond experimental dollars) similar to earlier devaluing of Internet display advertising.
Facebook... or any other "social media"stock.
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