Google to pay Apple $1bn to remain default search engine on iOS
by Ben Romberg | 12.02.2013
According to a report by Morgan Stanley, search engine giant Google is set to pay as much as $1bn next year to remain the default search engine on Apple’s mobile operating system iOS. In 2009 Google paid a paltry $82m for the privilege. In comparing this deal to other platforms, Google is set to pay the Mozilla Foundation $400m next year indicating that Apple may represent about one third of Google’s distribution.
Morgan Stanley Analyst Scott Devitt put Google on his “best ideas” list for investments, in a report titled, “The Next Google Is Google.”
Every dollar of revenue Google makes on iOS thanks to advertising and data collection, Apple gets 75%. This number is only set to get bigger as the number of iPhone and iPad sales continues to grow.
Here’s a table from Devitt breaking down how much he thinks Google pays for total Traffic Acquisition Costs (TAC):
