This chart shows just how much Facebook, Google and Amazon dominate the digital economy

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This chart shows just how much Facebook, Google and Amazon dominate the digital economy

Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jeff Bezos.

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There's a lot of money to be made in the digital economy. And right now, a lot of that money is flowing into the coffers of three companies in particular.

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Google, Facebook and Amazon are among the most valuable tech companies in the world. And as shown in this chart, based on data from eMarketer, the three companies utterly dominate certain segments of the online economy in the US. (Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, also owns eMarketer.)

More than two of out every three dollars spent on digital ads in the US goes to one of the three companies., for instance. Facebook, not surprisingly, takes the lion's share of social media advertising, and it's closing the gap with Google on mobile ads.

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With calls to rein in the power of the big tech companies, and some like Senator Elizabeth Warren even saying it's time to break up some of these corporations, the market share figures below represent something of an inconvenient truth - no matter what the companies may say about competition being "just a click away."

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Amazon is a growing power in digital advertising, but its real stronghold remains its online retail business, with 37.7% of all e-commerce sales in the US ringing up at the Amazon cash register. Notably, that number is actually the result of a downward revision by eMarketer following new information about Amazon's third-party sales- the research firm had previously estimated Amazon's share of the US e-commerce market was 47%.

As the TV industry gets upended by the internet, Google and Amazon are also positioned to benefit from new revenue streams. Nearly 27% of consumers who watch streaming video on a TV screen in the US watch through Amazon, while nearly 17% watch through a Google service or device. Note that the estimates for "over-the-top" TV viewers, which refers to video delivered over the internet independent of a traditional TV service, is above 100% due to overlap of consumers using more than one service.

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