{"id":1211505,"date":"2023-12-13T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211505"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:23:11","slug":"elon-musks-x-ad-revenue-reportedly-fell-1-5b-this-year-amid-boycotts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211505","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid boycotts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1757077740-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk&#x2019;s X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid boycotts\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1757077740.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"683\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/tesla-x-and-spacexs-ceo-elon-musk-attends-the-first-plenary-news-photo\/1757077740\">Leon Neal \/ Staff | Getty Images Europe<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to know exactly how dire the financial situation is at Elon Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter). However, insider sources recently revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-12\/musk-s-x-2023-ad-sales-projected-to-slump-to-about-2-5-billion\">to Bloomberg<\/a> that the social media platform expects to end 2023 with &#8220;roughly&#8221; $2.5 billion in advertising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s &#8220;a significant slump from prior years,&#8221; sources said. It&#8217;s also about half a billion short of the $3 billion that X executives expected to make in ad sales in 2023, one source said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Twitter raked in more than $1 billion in ad revenue per quarter, sources said. But in each of the first three quarters of 2023, X only managed to generate &#8220;a little more than $600 million&#8221; in ad revenue. Now, the most recent advertiser fallout over antisemitic content on X\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2023\/11\/x-may-lose-75m-in-ad-revenue-after-antisemitic-posts-report-says\/\">estimated in November as triggering a sudden $75 million loss<\/a>\u2014is still casting a shadow on what could become an even more dismal fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990797#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990797&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk\u2019s X ad revenue reportedly fell .5B this year amid boycotts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal \/ Staff | Getty Images Europe) It&#8217;s hard to know exactly how dire the financial situation is at Elon Musk&#8217;s X (formerly Twitter). However, insider sources recently revealed to Bloomberg that the social media platform expects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1211505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}