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"In an interview with VentureBeat, online IM aggregator eBuddy's CEO Jan-Joost Rueb has revealed the company's future plans, as well as some interesting facts about their revenue. \nAccording to Rueb, Amsterdam-based eBuddy is opening an office in San Francisco, and they're hoping to expand through new campaigns and partnerships in the US. They don't fear Facebook Chat (Rueb claims that the introduction of MySpace chat didn't have \"any impact\" on their traffic, which is approximately 15 million monthly uniques), and they have great expectations from the mobile side of the business (they have \"close to two million monthly uniques on mobile versions,\" and they're growing at 20 percent per month. \nBut perhaps the most interesting part of the interview is Rueb's claim that they're earning 10x as much as Meebo, which has reportedly had 1 million dollars in revenue since they started. Now compare this with the speculated 250 million dollar valuation for Meebo and you get some very high numbers. How did they achieve such a high CPM? Rueb says they've focused on monetization early on, and that they've head great success with \"advertising packages that include homepage takeovers and \u201Csponsored\u201D emoticons.\" Add to this the fact that they haven't even started monetizing their mobile traffic yet, and, provided that the numbers are true, you get a nice little web 2.0 success story. eBuddy should expect a fierce fight from Meebo, though, because I'm not sure whether there's room in the online IM space for more than one big player."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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