The Mozilla Foundation recentlypublishAccording to the financial report for 2021 (December 31, 2020-December 31, 2021), Mozilla’s revenue in 2021 will be US$600 million.

Compared With $496 million in revenue in 2020, Mozilla added more than $100 million in revenue in 2021.2021’s revenue is second only to 2019’s, but $338 million of 2019’s $828 million came from a legal dispute with former search engine provider Yahoo. If this one-time compensation is excluded, the 2021 revenue is a record.

income

Looking at Mozilla’s various sources of income alone, the income from patent rights/search engine copyright royalties (royalties) is still Mozilla’s most important source of income, with a total of 527 million US dollars, an increase of more than 80 million US dollars compared with 4.81 in 2020. The growth is also mainly concentrated in this area.

Mozilla renewed its search engine agreement with Google in August 2020 for a period of three years. Neither party disclosed the content of the new agreement, but the new agreement will significantly increase Mozilla’s patent/copyright revenue in 2021.

On the other hand, Mozilla’s revenue from subscription and advertising has doubled directly. In 2019, Mozilla’s revenue in this area was 14 million US dollars, and by 2020 it will rise to 24 million US dollars, an increase of about 71% year-on-year. In 2021, there will be a huge increase in harvest, growing to 56 million US dollars.

Mozilla has built several services over the past few years, including Firefox VPN, Pocket Premium, MDN Plus, Hits, Firefox Relay, and more, and advertising revenue is also included in this segment.

The increase in income is concentrated on the main business goals and continues to grow, which reflects that the business model of the Mozilla Foundation/Company is healthy and sustainable, and it can be described as thriving!

expenditure

In terms of spending, Mozilla has slashed spending in 2021, totaling $339 million in 2021, a drop of more than $100 million from $438 million in 2020.

Software development expenses were reduced from $242 million to $199 million, administrative and administrative expenses were reduced from $137 million to $81 million (employee benefits fall under this category), and branding and marketing expenses were reduced from $37 million to $30 million.

Mozilla In the past few years, it has fully implemented the financial model of increasing income and reducing expenditure. Its income depends largely on the search engine transaction with Google, but the income from subscriptions and advertising has grown faster and developed steadily.

Its search engine contract with Google will expire in the second half of 2023, and there is a high probability that it will continue to renew.