Social Media M&A Deals In Last One Year: Topline Figures

As you know, we released our Social Media Deals Report earlier this week…we posted about the venture capital numbers earlier, here.
Now, M&A in the social media sector over the last one year…some preview topline figures:
— Citizen-Blog Journalism: 5 deals
— Community Sites: 6 deals
— Social Networking/Dating: 15 deals
— Video Sharing: 4 deals
— Music Related: 4 deals
— Gaming: 1 deal
— Tagging/RSS: 3 deals
— Podcasting: 1 deal
— Listings/Review/Events/Recommendations: 4 deals
— Mobile Social Networks/Community: 3 deals
— Other Mobile Social Media Deals: 5 deals
Three biggest deals:
— Biggest deal: Fox Interactive Buys Intermix/MySpace: $580 million
— Second biggest: ITV Buys Friends Reunited: About $304 Million
— Third biggest: Viacom Buys Xfire: $102 Million
More about the report and how to buy here.

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