Opera Software Q2 2013 Financial Results
Everything is improving but the desktop.
After rebooting its web browsers, I am sure you are all wondering how exactly it did affect the overall Opera growth, especially on desktop.
Well, today we have the answer.
Financial Highlights
– Revenue growth of 40%
– Record revenue and profit
– Strong revenue growth from Mobile Operators, Mobile Consumers and Mobile Publishers & Advertisers
Revenue: Mobile Consumers – Opera Owned and Operated Properties 2Q13
– Revenue growth driven primarily by mobile search, advertising and license revenue
– 251M users by end of 2Q13, up more than 51M compared to end of 2Q12
– 20.7B ad requests from owned & operated properties in 2Q13, up 590% versus 2Q12. Application downloads from OMS of 119 million in 2Q13, up 59% compared to 2Q12
– Revenue growth: 248% versus 2Q12
Revenue: Mobile Publisher & Advertisers – Opera Publisher Network Members 2Q13
– Revenue growth driven by both premium advertisers, including American Express, Home Depot, Mazda, Microsoft, Paramount, and Unilever, and performance advertisers such as Candy Crush and Netspend
– AdMarvel managed 171.5B ad impressions in 2Q13, up 61% vs. 2Q12
– 13,000+ websites and applications enabled in 2Q13, up from 12,000+ in 2Q12 and total reach of 350m+ in 2Q13 up from 140m+ in 2Q12
– Revenue growth: 106% versus 2Q12
Revenue: Desktop Consumer 2Q13
– Solid ARPU with lower search revenue, partly offset by higher content and advertising revenue
– Desktop users at 52 million, down 5% versus end of 2Q12
– Overall revenue growth: -10% versus 2Q12
Overall, it looks like the things are rosy everywhere but in the desktop department, which still has some catching up to do.
For a complete report, head over to the following page.
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“After rebooting its web browsers, I am sure you are all wondering how exactly it did affect the overall Opera growth, especially on desktop.
Well, today we have the answer.”
No we won’t. Opera 15 launched July 2nd, it isn’t part of Q2.
Opera Mobile 14 was released about month before Opera 15 and it is Q2
I know it, but pay attention to my quote… “especially on desktop. Well, today we have the answer.”
Actually this is an argument in favor of Opera 15 (for Android) as the User Growth on Android devices looks quite good.
You are right, considering the report was out in August, I assumed that their fiscal year is different
Sadly youre right, and the Consumer chart says: “Desktop users… below expectations”.
But the new branch is mostly that… new, therefore inmature, by this time next year Opera 23 will portray a very different picture.
Well I Just hope web pages do not advance fast so I can Opera 12.15 for long time.
Word. Opera 15 is a shell of the real Opera browser. Sure, they’ll add in features again later — but which features, and what will be left out?
I have a bad feeling Opera will abandon Opera Desktop in the future…
just take a visit at Opera forum, nobody seems to like Opera 15, 17
actually: I do like Opera 15. Not for my personal daily use (still 12.15 because of tab stacking), but it’s the first opera version i can recomment to “normal” (non-hardcore) users.
Opera 16 will bring some much-needed features back, I especially welcome having duckduckgo as a search engine again.
All in all: the switch to blink was a little late, Opera ought have switched to webkit with version 10… but better late then never!
(i used to have Opera Mail/M2 for my mails for 5 years but I really got used to thunderbird quite fast. Didn’t imagine that could happen ;-P).
Why would Opera abandon a profitable product? Even if it only has 50M users, those users are highly profitable (unlike say, Opera Mini). It’s basically free money.
I’m glad they’re doing good, they don’t even need the desktop users.
Regret that!! hahaha, kidding but dont invoke it.