on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. for more on meta s results and what they say about the state of big tech let s bring in ray wang, founder of tech advisory firm, constellation research. yeah, they showed that the digital add is fine, yeah, they showed that the digitaladd is fine, and i think that s a really important piece. and what you mentioned earlier is important. advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there. they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost at 3 billion intact, and they were able to drive sales up 3% and give guidance that was much higher in between the 29.5 billion to 32 billion range. and that is coming on the heels of 20
forecast that second quarter revenue would be above market expectations. this confirms the view that digital advertisers are betting on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. earlier i spoke to the founder of the tech advisory firm constellation research and it told me that meta has managed told me that meta has managed to keep eyeballs on its platforms and advertisers know that. , , ., ., that. they showed the digital at winter is that. they showed the digital at winter is falling that. they showed the digital at winter is falling and - that. they showed the digital at winter is falling and that l at winter is falling and that is important piece. what you mentioned earlier was important, advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the
this confirms the view that digital advertisers are betting on well established platforms, such as facebook and instagram, in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. earlier i spoke with ray wang, the founder of the tech advisory firm constellation research and he told me that meta has managed to keep eyeballs on its platforms and advertisers know that. yeah, they showed the digital ad winter is thawing and that is a really important piece. what you mentioned earlier was important, advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there and what meta showed was that they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost 3 billion, intact, and were able to drive sales up 3% and give a queue to guidance that was much higher between
in the past hour we have just had an update on some important data. they show the world s biggest economy is still growing but more slowly than first thought. the first three months of this year the us economy grew by 1.1% months of this year the us economy grew by1.1% and months of this year the us economy grew by 1.1% and that is on an annualised basis with consumer spending still remaining pretty strong but many analysts have been expecting today s figure to be closer to the 2% mark with all of this of course adding to fears that the american economy is running out of steam so let s get the thoughts of steam so let s get the thoughts of samir hussein, our north american business correspondence standing by new york and that is the question, isn t it. is this just a temporary blip or are we on a longer term slowdown? because we have talked a lot about the us avoiding recession. this will be welcome news. they can certainly not. this demonstrates the us economy is certainly l