TNB Tech Minute: Meta Platforms Projected to Beat Google as World’s Largest Digital-Ad Business
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Monday, April 13th. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.2 | Meta Platforms is expected to surpass Alphabet's Google to become the world's largest digital advertising business for the |
| 0:43.8 | first time. Advertising research firm E-marketer projects that the Facebook and WhatsApp owner |
| 0:49.2 | will bring in more than $243.46 billion in net ad revenue this year, beating Google's estimated $239.54 billion. |
| 0:59.2 | Meta's ad business is seeing a lift from the short-form video format, Reels, and a broader boost |
| 1:04.0 | from artificial intelligence. E-marketer estimates Meta's worldwide ad growth will continue to rise |
| 1:09.2 | this year, an unprecedented projection |
| 1:11.4 | as analysts expected its growth would slow, given its scale. In other meta news, the Philippines |
| 1:18.0 | government is ordering the social media giant to curb the spread of, quote, panic-inducing fake |
| 1:22.9 | news on its platforms, such as misleading claims about exaggerated oil price increases and energy supply |
| 1:28.8 | disruptions. In a recent letter to META CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Philippines authorities told the |
| 1:34.5 | company the continued circulation of false news would violate the country's laws and pose a direct |
| 1:39.0 | threat to public order, economic confidence, and national security. Meta didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| 1:47.2 | The Philippines Information Department and the Presidential Office |
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