Zynga’s revenue has touched the sky in 2009

Zynga is the number one social gaming company on the web. Popular social online games by zynga are Cafe World, Dragon Wars, FarmVille, Fashion Wars, FishVille, Mafia Wars, PetVille, Pirates, Roller Coaster, Scramble, Special Forces, Street Racing, Vampires, Word Twist, YoVille, Zynga Poker and so on. No download is required for Zynga games, and Zynga uses Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, and iphone as platform for these games and social networking.

Zynga logo

When Zynga got 5 million users its goal had been to get to 12 million daily active users by the end of the year 2009, but now they have ended 2009 with around 65 million users.

Zynga’s revenue has increased like boom with its users. According to Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, ZYnga’s revenue run rate has increased by additional 246 percent to 260 percent in the year 2009. So, Zynga’s annualized revenue run rate is now more than $300 million in 2009. And, earlier this month, the company closed a $180 million round of funding.

Based on preliminary sales trend on virtual goods, Zynga will likely do at least $200 million in revenues this calendar year through virtual farm games only.

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One Comment to “Zynga’s revenue has touched the sky in 2009”

  1. Sujith John 19 January 2010 at 3:10 pm #

    big thanks to Farmville and Mafia wars :)


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