Meta Announces New Video & AI Features At Advertising Week via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Meta unveiled a bid of updates to its advertizing platform, focusing connected video content, AI-generated ads, and creator partnerships.

These changes travel arsenic the institution reports that 60% of idiosyncratic clip connected Facebook and Instagram is present spent watching videos.

New Video Tab On Facebook

Meta is introducing a dedicated video tab connected Facebook, consolidating Reels, longer videos, and unrecorded contented successful 1 place.

This determination aligns with the company’s strategy to prioritize video contented crossed its platforms.

AI-Generated Ad Tools Expand

Meta reports that implicit 1 cardinal advertisers usage AI advertisement instauration tools monthly, with 15 cardinal ads created successful the past month.

Meta claims that campaigns utilizing these AI features saw higher click-through and conversion rates compared to accepted campaigns.

Building connected this success, Meta is introducing 2 caller video-focused AI tools:

• Video Expansion: This diagnostic automatically adjusts video assets to acceptable antithetic facet ratios, creating a much immersive viewing acquisition crossed platforms.
• Image Animation: Advertisers tin present alteration static images into video contented for Instagram Reels, addressing assets limitations for smaller businesses.

Screenshot from: Meta. October 2024.

These features are expected to beryllium wide disposable by aboriginal 2025.

Updates To Creator Partnerships

Meta is rolling retired caller tools for concern ads, including:

• Integration of creator contented into collections ads
• A caller format for adding creator testimonials to ads
• A centralized Partnership Ads Hub successful Ads Manager

The institution states that adding concern ads to existing campaigns reduced Cost Per Action by an mean of 19% successful tests.

Looking Ahead

As video depletion continues to predominate societal media usage, Meta’s latest updates bespeak its strategy to assistance advertisers accommodate to this shift.

While astir of these features volition beryllium gradually implemented, they awesome Meta’s absorption for the aboriginal of societal media advertising.

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SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer astatine Search Engine Journal

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...