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Meta’s AI Push Boosts Ad Performance as Wall Street Endorses Bigger 2025 Spend

Analysts credit AI-driven ad gains with strengthening Meta’s case for massive 2025 investment.

Overview

  • Evercore ISI’s Mark Mahaney said Meta’s AI work has lifted the user and advertiser experience, driving nearly 70% growth in revenue per employee.
  • The company is expected to allocate about $60 billion to $65 billion in 2025 capital expenditures to expand AI infrastructure.
  • Q2 2025 revenue rose 22% to $47.52 billion as ad impressions increased 11% year over year and price per ad rose 9% in the June quarter.
  • Meta’s scale underpins its advertising edge, with roughly 3.4–3.48 billion daily active users and about 98% of 2024 revenue coming from digital ads.
  • Investors see both opportunity and risk as forecasts call for digital-ad growth to slow to about 9% annually from 2025 to 2030, even as the stock is up roughly 30% year to date to $778 as of September 22.