When people think of Facebook as a company, they mostly think of it synonymously with Facebook the social network. However, Facebook Inc. is much more than that, as today’s chart nicely illustrates. With WhatsApp, Instagram and of course the namesake Facebook and Messenger, the company owns four of the world’s largest social media / messaging services. Facebook alone reaches more than 2 billion people per month and both WhatsApp and Messenger also passed the billion-user milestone recently. Tencent, the Chinese company behind WeChat and Qzone might also boast a billion users in total, but still doesn’t come close to Facebook’s global footprint.
What all of the services mentioned below have in common, is their immense attractiveness to advertisers. Not only do they all boast hundreds of millions of users, but they also have the ability to target specific groups…

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