Recently was published WebMD’s Q3 financial report(direct link)
This company has 2 very popular iPhone Medical Apps on App Store:
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Some interesting highlights:
- “We’re also investing into markets for the future as we see the market going more mobile and more global. Our WebMD mobile health applications for consumers was launched on the iPhone less than a year ago, and they have already generated over 1 million downloads, consistently ranking at the top of the app store for health applications.
Medscape Mobile which is our first Mobile application for physicians continues to rank at the top of the app store for medical applications with now over 200,000 downloads since launching on the iPhones only this past July.”;
- “Further development is already underway to launch new products enhancements on Medscape Mobile including delivering on new platforms such as the Blackberry later this year”;
- “WebMD revenue for the quarter was $111.6 million, compared to $96.8 million last year, an increase of 15%. To break down of revenue increase for you, our public portal advertising and sponsorship revenue which represents 80% of total revenue increased 20% to $89.4 million. Private portal services revenue which represents 20% of total revenue was flat at $22.2 million. WebMD’s adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $33.1 million, compared to $25.5 million last year, an increase of 30%. Adjusted EBITDA per diluted share was $0.56 compared to $0.43 last year. “;
- “Adjusted EBITDA margin of 29.7% for the quarter was approximately 335 basis points higher than last year.”;
- “This quarter, WebMD’s advertising revenues grew by 20% fueled by increasing demand from our bio and pharmaceutical customers as well as consumer product companies “;
- “Traffic to the WebMD HLTH network averaged 59.2 million unique users per month, that’s an increase of 19% versus the same period a year ago, and page use through our network during the quarter grew by 27% to 1.4 billion pages. Our page use per user is important measure of the high quality of engagement of the typical WebMD customer.”;
Read full report: link
