Instagram makes more money from ads than YouTube does, and it has for years

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In a question Meta filed connected Friday to effort and get the FTC’s monopoly claims dismissed, it includes details of however overmuch advertizing gross Instagram brought successful implicit the past fewer years. At $32.4 cardinal for 2021 alone, that’s adjacent much than YouTube, which pulled successful $28.8 cardinal successful the aforesaid year. Business Insider antecedently pointed retired the pb it has implicit Google’s video unit, and mentions that YouTube gives up 55 percent of each advertizing dollar it makes to contented owners who upload videos portion Instagram coughs up a batch less.

The spread is besides determination adjacent if you look further back. In 2020 and 2019, Meta lists Instagram’s advertisement gross arsenic $22 and $17.9 billion, respectively, portion YouTube’s advertisement gross is listed successful its yearly study (PDF) arsenic $19.7 and $15.1 billion for the aforesaid years.

Image: Composite of filing from District Court, District of Columbia, and Alphabet 2021 Annual Report (PDF)

According to Bloomberg, the figures amusement the stock of Meta’s gross that comes from Instagram has jumped from 26 percent successful 2020 to astir 30 percent successful the archetypal six months of 2022. The figures from the filing springiness much penetration than Meta’s quarterly net reports, which don’t interruption retired Instagram, but present we person a overmuch clearer thought astir however overmuch Adam Mosseri’s conception means to Meta.