Angry Birds in 2011, downloaded 648 million times, revenue Rovio over $ 106 million

The company Rovio announced its financial and operating results for 2011, and as reported by The Verge with reference to agency Reuters, last year had been in the studio more than successful: Revenues for the year amounted to € 75.4 million (approximately $ 106.3 million), profit before tax reached € 48 million ($ 67.6 million). This report does not include sales figures of the new version of the most popular game series Angry Birds: Angry Birds Space, which has already broken the record for number of downloads per month. Also in 2011 came the film and the game to him Angry Birds Rio, and the total number of downloads of the game "evil birds" has exceeded 648 million times in the monthly user activity at the level of 200 million downloads. At the same time not less than 30% of all proceeds received from the sale of souvenirs and licensing of various activities associated with the franchise Angry Birds.

The agency Reuters also reported on the statement, Anders Lindberg, head of working with investors in the company's Rovio, the authors of Angry Birds are preparing to enter the stock trades. Earlier, the management has denied the possibility of Rovio IPO before the end of 2012. In December 2011 the company ahead of competitors in the field of the Zynga games for social networks.