Meta
Meta Platforms, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8% of its total revenue. Wikipedia
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Symbol: NASDAQ:META
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- Oct 8: Global ad spend is to grow by 11.9% this year, according to new data from WARC Media. Online audio should grow +9.9% to $16.6bn globally this year, and a further +7.5% next year. The market research company also says that Amazon, Alphabet and Meta will take a combined market share of 59.7% of all ad revenue (excluding China).
- Sep 9: Experience: Analysing Newsmakers launched in July, and is already seven episodes in. It features a former broadcast journalist and a clinical psychologist who take one news story and work out the psychology underneath it. Recent episodes: Keir Starmer standing down and the psychology of role exit, the Meta addictive-design trial and variable ratio reinforcement, and public shaming after the death of Professor Jason Arday.
- Aug 19: Metapodcast is a search engine for podcasts, searching "millions of moments" from top podcasts. It offers 25 free searches a day, it seems.
- Jul 13:
With Airwave and TWiT
.tv: This Week in Tech is the top-ranked flagship tech podcast with Leo Laporte and friends. This week, Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged trade secret theft; Meta is testing new AI glasses; and plenty more - he's joined by Wesley Faulkner, Louis Maresca, and Patrick Beja. - Apr 27: Meta is to cut 8,000 staff.
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