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Meta’s mighty ad mission

Five charts to start your day

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James Eagle
Feb 19, 2025
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Picture a company that rakes in most of its money from adverts. That is Meta – formerly Facebook – which saw advertising climb from around 40 billion dollars in 2017 to a predicted 160 billion by 2024. That is a quadruple jump, driven by Instagram, WhatsApp and clever AI-based targeting. The numbers speak for themselves: advertising still makes up about 98 percent of Meta’s total revenue.

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