I mentioned about our new Social Media Deals Report, covering the venture capital and M&A deals in the social media sector, for second half 2005 and first half 2006. Coincidentally, it is also a year since Fox Interactive/News Corp bought MySpace, arguably the turning point in social media sector, at least from a deals perspective.
We’ll have it for sale Monday morning, but a preview of some stats:
VC Deals: Breakdown by Sub-Sector
— Social Networking: 21 companies, total: $95.8 million, 8 undisclosed
— Business Social Networking: 3 companies; total: $21 million, 1 undisclosed
— Video Sharing: 14 companies; total: $60.2 million, 5 undisclosed
— Photo Sharing: 8 companies; total: $68.26 million, none undisclosed
— Avatars: 6 companies; total: $52.73 million, none undisclosed
— Gaming/Role-Playing: 2 companies; total: $16 million, none undisclosed
— Personal Media/P2P Management and Sharing: 5 companies; total: $17.5 million, 2 undisclosed
— Entertainment Content: 4 companies; total: $28.5 million; one undisclosed
— Collaborative & Social Search: 4 companies; total: $7.3 million; two undisclosed
— Listings/Review/Events/Recommendations: 7 companies; total: $20.7 million; one undisclosed
— Music Related: 6 companies; total: $16.7 million; 2 undisclosed
— P2P: 3; total: $11.75 million; one undisclosed
— Citizen-Blog Journalism: 9 companies; total: $22.9 million; 5 undisclosed
— RSS Tools and Services: 8 companies; total: $13.5 million; 5 undisclosed
— News Personalization & Sharing: 4 companies; total: $43.3 million; one undisclosed
— Podcasting: 4 companies; total: $14 million; 2 undisclosed
— Blogs Tools & Services: 5 companies; total: $26.1 million; one undisclosed
— Wikis: 3 companies; total: $10.15 million; none undisclosed
— China: 8 companies; total: $47.3 million; one undisclosed
— Physical Media: 2 companies; total: $17 million; none undisclosed
— IM: 1 company; $3.5 million
— Mobile Social Media: 13 companies; total: $67.35 million; 2 undisclosed
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