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Instagram’s global advertising revenue likely to outdo rivals in 2024
By our News Team | 2023
The social media platform’s ad revenue is up 25.8% year-on-year and is forecast to total US$71-billion for 2024.
Instagram, one of the many social media platforms impacted by the global dip in digital advertising spending, is making a stronger recovery than its competitors.
Warc Media, the international research and insights company, forecasts that Instagram’s advertising revenue will reach US$71-billion in 2024, driven by parent company Meta’s innovation with AI that will assist content recommendation and advertising automation processes.
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There is also likely to be improved monetisation of Reels, Instagram’s short-form video product.
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“Twelve months ago, commentators were warning of a ‘reckoning’ for Big Tech, with platforms like Instagram hurting from … Apple’s ATT policy (the company’s tougher user privacy framework) alongside a broader slowdown in digital ad investment.
Innovations are making a big difference
“What a difference a year makes. Buoyed by innovations in AI targeting helping it to offset the impact of ATT and improved monetisation of Reels, it is only a matter of time before Instagram surpasses its Meta stable mate Facebook to become the world’s largest social media platform by ad revenue,” Brownsell believes.
Warc forecasts that Instagram will post quarterly advertising revenues in Q4 2023 of $17.7-billion, up 25.8% year-on-year, and reach a total of $71-billion in revenue for the full 2024 year.
The company says the growing popularity of social commerce is moving Instagram closer to the point of purchase. The global retail category spend on Instagram will rise from a relatively low $3.2-billion in 2020, to almost three times that (a forecasted $9.1-billion) in 2024.
Warc’s report emphasises that Reels is key, as campaigns on Reels reach nearly twice the audience as those on TikTok. Nearly a third (30.4%) of consumers turn to Instagram when searching for brands, Warc says.
