Today I created a list of the top 30 earning websites in the world, for some of these websites, $50 million in revenue a day is just a typical day, crazy isn’t it? And it was all created in the last 10 or so years! I usually would do a write up about how the list rocks and why you should do it to but I think the figures speak for themselves, enjoy!
Since publishing this article, we have done an updated version called ‘20 Websites Making The Most Money‘.
Before you see the list, who do you think makes the most money? Decided? Ok, now you can look!
Since publishing this article, we have done an updated version called ‘20 Websites Making The Most Money‘.
Before you see the list, who do you think makes the most money? Decided? Ok, now you can look!
30 Websites That Make A Lot Of Money Online
| Rank | Website | Founders | Annual Revenue | Per Second |
| 1 | Larry Page and Sergey Brin | $21,800,000,000 | $691.27 | |
| 2 | Amazon | Jeff Bezos | $19,166,000,000 | $607.75 |
| 3 | Yahoo | Jerry Yang and David Filo | $7,200,000,000 | $228.31 |
| 4 | eBay | Pierre Omidyar | $6,290,000,000 | $199.45 |
| 5 | MSN/Live | Nathan Myhrvold. | $3,214,000,000 | $101.92 |
| 6 | PayPal | Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek | $2,250,000,000 | $71.35 |
| 7 | iTunes | Jeff Robbin | $1,900,000,000 | $60.25 |
| 8 | Reuters | Marshal Vace | $1,892,000,000 | $59.99 |
| 9 | Priceline | Jesse Fink | $1,884,000,000 | $59.74 |
| 10 | Expedia | Added Mark Schroeder | $1,447,000,000 | $45.88 |
| 11 | NetFlix | Reed Hastings | $1,200,000,000 | $38.05 |
| 12 | Travelocity | Terry Jones | $1,100,000,000 | $38.05 |
| 13 | Zappos | Nick Swinmurn | $1,000,000,000 | $31.71 |
| 14 | Hotels.com | David Litman | $1,000,000,000 | $31.71 |
| 15 | AOL | Erik Prince | $968,000,000 | $30.70 |
| 16 | Orbitz | Jeff Katz | $870,000,000 | $27.59 |
| 17 | Overstock | Robert Brazell | $834,000,000 | $26.45 |
| 18 | MySpace | Tom Anderson | $800,000,000 | $25.37 |
| 19 | Skype | Niklas Zennstrom | $550,841,000 | $17.47 |
| 20 | Sohu | Zhang Chaoyang | $429,000,000 | $13.60 |
| 21 | Buy.com | Robb Brock | $400,000,000 | $12.68 |
| 22 | StubHub | Eric Baker | $400,000,000 | $12.68 |
| 23 | Alibaba | Jack Ma | $316,000,000 | $10.02 |
| 24 | Mark Zuckerberg | $300,000,000 | $9.51 | |
| 25 | YouTube | Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim | $300,000,000 | $9.51 |
| 26 | Blue Nile | Mark Vadon | $295,000,000 | $9.35 |
| 27 | Tripadvisor | Stephen Kaufer | $260,000,000 | $8.24 |
| 28 | Getty Images | Mark Getty | $233,200,000 | $7.39 |
| 29 | Bidz | Garry Itkin | $207,000,000 | $6.56 |
| 30 | NYTimes | Henry Jarvis Raymond | $175,000,000 | $5.55 |