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LinkedIn: The Size Of The Facebook Threat

Facebook has confirmed that it is experimenting with allowing its business users to advertise job postings on their company pages. This 'Jobs' tab puts the social network giant into direct competition with a number of other companies, the most notable being LinkedIn. As the Statista infographic below shows, the revenue LinkedIn receives from this segment is a huge part of its business, representing great potential for Facebook.

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This chart shows the global revenue of LinkedIn from 2009 to 2016 by business segment.

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Annual revenue generated by LinkedIn from 2019 to 2023, by segment (in billion U.S. dollars)
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Revenue of the leading online job advertising firms worldwide in 2018 (in billion U.S. dollars)
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LinkedIn: Jobs & Business News app revenue worldwide from 1st quarter 2025 to 3rd quarter 2025 (in million U.S. dollars)
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Revenue of LinkedIn from 2017 to 2025
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Global market share of the leading online job advertising firms in 2017

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