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Perpetual Traffic

Why Meta is The Best Ad Platform on The Planet in 2026 Part 3

Perpetual Traffic

Tier 11

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Do you still consider Meta a targeting platform? If so, that mindset is probably costing you scale, efficiency, and confidence in your numbers. We see too many marketers clinging to old playbooks, such as hyper-specific audiences, exclusions, and lookalikes, without realizing the platform has fundamentally changed.

In this episode, we continue our discussion on the evolution of Meta advertising, from the early days of right-hand rail ads and insane third-party data to what’s happening right now. We break down why targeting used to do the heavy lifting, why that era is over, and how AI-driven delivery flipped the model on its head.

If you’re running ads or managing clients who are, this series on Meta’s history and current strategies will recalibrate how you think about Meta before launching your 2026 marketing plan.

In This Episode:

- Early Facebook monetization and newsfeed ads

- Facebook Beacon and other early failures

- The birth of Facebook’s ad engine

- Facebook’s IPO and Instagram acquisition

- AlexNet and the foundation of AI ads

- When targeting started ruling Meta ads

- Creative replaces targeting



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0:00.0

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sponsor of this show. I remember you were able to do people that have like income brackets, credit scores, like all this type of stuff. So we needed to make sure that these were married individuals. They were employed. They had this household income and they had this credit score. This was a whole different era. Creative wasn't as important. I think a lot of people say, oh, Zuckerberg is so brilliant by putting ads in the newsfeed.

0:38.4

He literally had no choice to do it. Zuckerberg really didn't want anything to do with advertising.

0:43.3

He said that this year, the only thing he's put his priority to is ensuring that the consumer has a...

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1:38.0

Hello and welcome to the perpetual traffic podcast.

1:40.7

This is your host, Ralph Burns, founder founder and CEO of Cheer 11 alongside my amazing pink

1:46.3

microphone co-host. Lauren E. Petrullo, the founder of Mung's Media. Notice I didn't say fuchsia or

1:53.5

purple, like last episode. Anyway, so glad you joined us here today. If you're a VP,

1:57.8

a marketing, director of marketing, a CEO, you need to be on meta-advertising. Sorry, just, sorry to break it to you. We've're a VP of Marketing, Director of Marketing, a CEO, you need to be on

2:00.9

meta advertising. Sorry. I'm sorry to break it to you. We've got a client call later on today that

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