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Meta's AI advancements are boosting user engagement and ad revenue significantly. Higher video consumption on Instagram and Facebook, coupled with improved ad conversion rates, highlight AI's impact. The company is expanding AI-powered tools for content discovery and advertiser solutions, driving substantial growth and promising further innovation.Listen to this article in summarized format
On Instagram, “ranking improvements… drove a 10% lift in Reels time spent,” Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said, while on Facebook, total video watch time rose more than 8% globally, including a 9% increase in the US and Canada.
Zuckerberg added that more than 3.5 billion people now use at least one of the company’s apps daily, underscoring the scale at which these systems operate.
The gains come as Meta expands the use of AI-powered recommendation systems to surface more relevant content to users.