The document discusses trends in APIs including the growth of REST and JSON APIs, the rise of API billionaires and trillionaires processing over a billion API calls per day, APIs as products and brands, monetizing APIs through various business models like advertising and premium services, and the role of invisible mashups using multiple APIs together without the end user's knowledge.
23. API Billionaires Club
13 billion API calls / day (May 2011)
5 billion API calls / day (April 2010)
5 billion API calls / day (October 2009)
1.4 billion API calls / day (May 2012)
1.1 billion API calls / day (April 2011)
1 billion API calls / day (May 2012)
1 billion API calls / day (Q1 2012)
1 billion API calls / day (January 2012)
24. API Billionaires Club
13 billion API calls / day (May 2011)
5 billion API calls / day (April 2010)
5 billion API calls / day (October 2009)
1.4 billion API calls / day (May 2012)
1.1 billion API calls / day (April 2011)
1 billion API calls / day (May 2012)
1 billion API calls / day (Q1 2012)
1 billion API calls / day (January 2012)
25. More API Billionaires
12 billion API calls / month (May 2011)
5 billion API calls / month (May 2011)
3.7 billion calls / month (August 2011)
3 billion API calls / month (July 2011)
2.5 billion API calls / month (April 2012)
6 billion API calls / month (February 2011)
3.2 billion API-delivered stories / month (October 2011)
2 billion API calls / month (December 2010)
26. APIs, now a billion $ business
=
$2
billion/year
Affiliate Network
“90%
of
what
we
do
is
business
through
APIs”
John
Wa0on,
Expedia
Affiliate
Network,
Travolu@on.co.uk,
April
2012