About Us

Company Background

• LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
• The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network.
• As of December 31, 2011 (the end of the fourth quarter), professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate that is faster than two new members per second.
• The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.

• As of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 150 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
• Sixty percent of LinkedIn members are located outside of the United States, as of December 31, 2011.
  
• LinkedIn members did nearly 4.2 billion professionally-oriented searches on the platform in 2011.
  
• Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S. offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Delhi, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
• The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal and Electronic Arts. The CEO of LinkedIn is Jeff Weiner.
• LinkedIn is currently available in sixteen languages: English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
• As of December 31, 2011, LinkedIn has 2,116 full-time employees located around the world. LinkedIn started off 2011 with about 1,000 full-time employees located across the globe, up from around 500 at the beginning of 2010.

• 150m+ professionals around the world as of February 9, 2012
• 44m+ members in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as of February 17, 2012
  
• 34m+ members in Europe as of February 17, 2012
  
• 8m+ members in the UK as of December 6, 2011
  
• 3m+ members in France as of November 29, 2011
• 3m+ members in the Netherlands as of December 6, 2011
• 2m+ members in Italy 
• 2m+ members in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) 
• 2m+ members in Spain as of December 1, 2011
  
• 1m+ members in Belgium as of September 22, 2011
• 1m+ members in Turkey as of February 10, 2012
  
• 25m+ members in Asia and the Pacific as of January 29, 2012
• 13m+ members in India as of December 21, 2011
  
• 4m+ members in Southeast Asia as of January 29, 2012
• 1m+ members in Indonesia as of February 21, 2012
  
• 5m+ members in Canada as of January 19, 2012
  
• 7m+ members in Brazil as of February 9, 2012
  
• 2m+ members in Australia
• As of December 31, 2011, students and recent college graduates are the fastest-growing demographic on LinkedIn
  

• As of February 9, 2012, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 82 of the Fortune 100 companies.
• More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
• LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
• More than 50,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals, averaging over two billion API calls per month as of December 31, 2011.
• As of December 31, 2011, there are more than 300,000 unique domains actively using the LinkedIn Share button on their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform. Referrals from LinkedIn to publisher sites around the Web are up more than 45 percent between September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2011.
• LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn Groups.
• As of December 31, 2011, mobile page views account for more than 15 percent of total unique member visits to LinkedIn.
• As of December 31, 2011, hundreds of thousands of job applications have been submitted using Apply With LinkedIn.
  

• Total revenue advanced 105 percent year on year to $167.7 million. For the full year 2011, revenues were a record $522 million, up 115 percent. This was the sixth straight quarter in which LinkedIn's revenues have at least doubled over the prior year.
• Hiring Solutions revenue was $84.9 million, increasing 136 percent compared to the year ago period. In the quarter, hiring solutions comprised 50 percent of total revenues compared to 44 percent last year. At the end of 2011, there were over 9,200 enterprises under contract for hiring solutions.
  
• Marketing Solutions revenue was $49.5 million, increasing 77 percent compared to the prior year.
  
• Premium Subscriptions revenues ended the quarter at $33.3 million, up 87 percent year-over-year.
  
• According to comScore, unique visitors (including members and non-members) averaged 92.0 million in the quarter. In December 2011, LinkedIn ranked as the 36th most-visited website worldwide, according to comScore, up from 45th just one year ago. ComScore measured 7.6 billion page views in the fourth quarter.