In 2024, the brand value of Instagram amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars. A year earlier, the value stood at **** billion dollars, while Instagram was the sixth most valuable media brand worldwide.

The impressive growth of social media companies in the early 2010s made many founders extremely wealthy. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s richest social media entrepreneur with a personal net worth of *** billion U.S. dollars. Zhang Yiming, the creator of TikTok, is worth **** billion U.S. dollars. Social media companies going public and being acquired The years between 2010 and 2019 saw a flurry of social media companies filing for an initial public offering (IPO) or being acquired by bigger, public companies, generating significant amounts of wealth for their founders and early employees in the process. Facebook, which went public in May 2012, had the biggest IPO in tech and internet history until online shopping giant Alibaba went public in 2014. Many of the richest social media entrepreneurs are connected to Facebook and most of their net worth is derived from their early investment and subsequent ownership stake in the social network. Many early Facebook investors and co-founders have used their earnings from the company to increase their wealth derived from tech. Some, such as Dustin Moskovitz, have gone on to found other companies, whereas others, like Eduardo Saverin, have become venture capitalists. The social media era Other social media company IPOs which created major online buzz include Twitter’s in 2013, Snap’s initial public offering four years later and more recently, Pinterest’s, which made headlines in early 2019. TikTok's founder Zhang Yiming saw an unprecedented success in 2020 and ranked second on the social media billionaires' list. The coronavirus social restrictions and lockdowns led to people resorting to TikTok as a means of entertainment and socializing. Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger netted a huge payday in 2012 when Facebook bought their then up-and-coming social network Instagram for * billion U.S. dollars – a sum which at that time was unheard of for such a transaction. However, this is nothing compared to the payout enjoyed by Jan Koum and Brian Acton two years later, whose chat service WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for a staggering ** billion U.S. dollars – although the Facebook-Instagram deal arguably made bigger waves across the industry. In hindsight, Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram has come to represent a turning point in tech venture capitalism, helping to define the concept of tech “unicorns” and positioning an acquisition-enabled exit as a viable and lucrative target for start-ups.

In 2023, Instagram was projected to generate an estimated 23 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in the United States. The photo sharing app’s revenue is set increase to 29 billion U.S. dollars in 2025. Instagram as Facebook revenue driver Initially released in 2010 and quickly acquired by Facebook in 2012 for one billion U.S. dollars, Instagram has been in the public eye since its early days. Instagram’s monthly active users grew from a mere 90 million in January 2013 to over two billion MAU in December 2021 and the platform not showing any signs of slowing down. Apart from ongoing user growth, Instagram is also one of the most popular social media platforms used by marketers worldwide, second only to Facebook. Despite the rapid growth of Instagram under Facebook’s ownership and cross-platform promotion, not everything has been smooth sailing under the blue flag. In September 2018, founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced their resignation amidst reports of culture and product clashes between Instagram and its parent company. Facebook was quick to appoint a new CEO, and under former Facebook News Feed product manager Adam Mosseri the social network has been trying to make the most of Instagram’s ad potential. In late June 2019, Instagram launched ads in its Explore section. The platform already allowed ads in the regular feed and Stories.

IG Port, Inc. recorded a net income of about **** billion Japanese yen in fiscal year 2023, which was a strong increase of approximately ****** million yen compared to the previous year. IG Port is a Japanese holding company with subsidiaries that engage in the animation and manga business, such as the anime studios Production I.G and Wit Studio.

IG Group Holdings reported 188M in Net Income for its fiscal semester ending in November of 2024. Data for IG Group Holdings | IGG - Net Income including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last September in 2025.

Italgas reported EUR169.4M in Net Income for its fiscal quarter ending in June of 2025. Data for Italgas | IG - Net Income including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last September in 2025.

Japan IG: Flow: Mixed Income: Net data was reported at 13,077.000 JPY bn in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 12,176.700 JPY bn for 2013. Japan IG: Flow: Mixed Income: Net data is updated yearly, averaging 17,448.700 JPY bn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2014, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26,494.800 JPY bn in 1994 and a record low of 12,082.400 JPY bn in 2012. Japan IG: Flow: Mixed Income: Net data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic and Social Research Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.A083: SNA 1993: Benchmark Year=2005: Income & Outlay Accounts: By Institution: Income Account Generation: Annual.

Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus and Mixed Income: Net data was reported at 91,360.100 JPY bn in 2014. This records a decrease from the previous number of 91,479.400 JPY bn for 2013. Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus and Mixed Income: Net data is updated yearly, averaging 95,164.800 JPY bn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2014, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 110,188.200 JPY bn in 2007 and a record low of 83,973.500 JPY bn in 2009. Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus and Mixed Income: Net data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic and Social Research Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.A083: SNA 1993: Benchmark Year=2005: Income & Outlay Accounts: By Institution: Income Account Generation: Annual.

The net income of Ig Design Group with headquarters in the United Kingdom amounted to *************** U.S. dollars in 2022. The reported fiscal year ends on March 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2020 this is a total decrease of approximately ************* U.S. dollars. The trend from 2020 to 2022 shows, furthermore, that this decrease happened continuously.

Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus: Net data was reported at 78,283.100 JPY bn in 2014. This records a decrease from the previous number of 79,302.700 JPY bn for 2013. Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus: Net data is updated yearly, averaging 78,325.500 JPY bn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2014, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 95,099.800 JPY bn in 2007 and a record low of 68,152.500 JPY bn in 1998. Japan IG: Flow: Operating Surplus: Net data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic and Social Research Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.A083: SNA 1993: Benchmark Year=2005: Income & Outlay Accounts: By Institution: Income Account Generation: Annual.

IG: Flow: Value Added: Net or Net Domestic Product data was reported at 416,263.800 JPY bn in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 410,428.300 JPY bn for 2015. IG: Flow: Value Added: Net or Net Domestic Product data is updated yearly, averaging 403,867.500 JPY bn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 417,672.200 JPY bn in 1997 and a record low of 368,922.200 JPY bn in 2009. IG: Flow: Value Added: Net or Net Domestic Product data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic and Social Research Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.A039: SNA 2008: Income & Outlay Accounts: By Institution: Income Account Generation: Annual.

Japan IG: Flow: Value Added: Net Domestic Product data was reported at 383,729.000 JPY bn in 2014. This records an increase from the previous number of 377,170.000 JPY bn for 2013. Japan IG: Flow: Value Added: Net Domestic Product data is updated yearly, averaging 398,662.100 JPY bn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2014, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 414,565.400 JPY bn in 1997 and a record low of 362,267.600 JPY bn in 2009. Japan IG: Flow: Value Added: Net Domestic Product data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Economic and Social Research Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.A083: SNA 1993: Benchmark Year=2005: Income & Outlay Accounts: By Institution: Income Account Generation: Annual.

The net income of Ig Group Holdings with headquarters in the United Kingdom amounted to ************ British pounds in 2022. The reported fiscal year ends on May 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2021 this is a total decrease of approximately ************** British pounds. The trend from 2021 to 2022 shows, furthermore, that this decrease happened continuously.

Revenue from stock trading has been the segment that has seen the most growth for online trading platform IG Group between 2016 and 2023. From less than *********** British pounds in the financial year of 2016, this figure increased to nearly ********** British pounds in the financial year of 2020, then more than doubled to ********** British pounds in 2021, before falling to ************ British pounds in 2023. This value is dwarfed however by the *********** British pounds of revenue the company derived from trading over the counter (OTC) derivatives in the financial year of 2023.

The net income of I G Petrochemicals Limited with headquarters in India amounted to ****** million Indian rupees in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on March 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2020 this is a total decrease by approximately *** billion Indian rupees. The trend from 2020 to 2023 shows, however, that this decrease did not happen continuously.

As of March 2025, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and X (previously known as Twitter), was the richest person in the global tech industry with an estimated net worth of 312 billion U.S. dollars. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, followed with a net worth of 217 billion U.S. dollars. Elon Musk and Twitter/X On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk bought the social network Twitter for around 44 billion U.S. dollars and became its CEO. Since Musk’s acquisition, the company has experienced some adjustments, including a name change to X and the option for users of becoming verified members for eight U.S. dollars per month. Moreover, there has been reports of increasing hate speech and the platform after Musk's takeover. Other tech billionaires and their companies Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft ranked 5th. Today, Microsoft develops consumer and enterprise software, services, and consumer electronics. In its 2023 financial year, Microsoft generated revenues of just under 212 billion U.S. dollars. By contrast, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta, ranked third. The company, previously known as Facebook, was rebranded in 2021 and its products include Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Despite their wealth, these companies are not immune to the layoffs that have plagued the tech industry, which are affecting Meta and Amazon employees the most.

Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook Inc., continues to dominate the digital landscape with impressive financial growth. In 2024, the company's annual revenue reached a staggering 164.5 billion U.S. dollars, marking a significant increase from 134.9 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. This upward trajectory reflects Meta's ability to monetize its vast user base across multiple platforms, solidifying its position as a tech giant. Advertising remains the primary revenue driver The bulk of Meta's revenue stems from its advertising operations, particularly within its Family of Apps segment. In 2024, this segment, which includes Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, generated 162 billion U.S. dollars. Despite a slight dip in 2022, Meta's advertising revenue has shown remarkable resilience and growth potential. User engagement and global reach The company's global influence is further illustrated by the fact that every minute, 138.9 million Reels are played on Facebook and Instagram, showcasing the ongoing evolution of user engagement within the Meta ecosystem.