At first sight, 2018 may appear to be an unremarkable year for SMM agency Dubai. Among the major worldwide networks, Facebook and Instagram will continue to dominate in terms of overall income and user base, with TikTok remaining the fastest-growing platform in both categories. However, this does not appear to be the present quo. The events of 2022 are changing the Social media landscape in a variety of ways.
1. Meta will be burdened by economic difficulties and self-inflicted wounds. After a historic 2.0% decrease in 2022, ad revenue growth will return to 8.2% this year, but it will not be enough to restore it’s declining share. According to our projection, Meta’s global digital ad spending cut peaked at 22.0% in 2021 and will plummet to 19.4% this year.
This year, Facebook’s global monthly user base will expand by only 0.3%, and its proportion of internet users will fall below 45% for the first time. Meanwhile, Instagram’s capacity to cushion Facebook’s losses is dwindling; while its monthly user base will increase by 4.7% this year, its proportion of global internet users will increase by less than a percentage point, to 28.7%.
2. As Meta falters, ByteDance will solidify its place on the global scene. This year, ad sales for ByteDance’s social networks TikTok and Douyin will climb by 24.5%, propelling the business to a 5.8% share of global digital ad spending—more than LinkedIn, Snapchat, Twitter, and YouTube combined. In 2023, the total footprint of the two applications (Douyin in China and TikTok everywhere) will be 1.70 billion monthly users, accounting for 36.5% of global internet users and 45.2% of social network users.
Douyin will have nearly the same number of users as China’s popular super app, WeChat, by 2026, indicating ByteDance’s expanding supremacy. The prospect of TikTok regulation in the United States remains, but ByteDance’s vast presence cannot be overlooked.
3. A new generation of social networks will compete for the attention of consumers. Users are abandoning Twitter in favor of alternative sites that enable public interactions. And the search for the next great Gen Z social app is fueling the quick emergence of BeReal, Gas, and others, drawing attention to Snapchat and TikTok. While none of these younger platforms are expected to offer a substantial challenge to the top five this year, there is a fair probability that at least one of them will end 2023 in a significantly better position.
4. The emergence of retail media worldwide will create new rivalry for commerce and revenue. Commerce ads have long been a source of revenue for organizations like Meta. This changed in 2022 when Apple’s privacy-related modifications reduced ad performance and opened these corporations’ eyes to a new way to reach buyers: The social media landscape.
Retail media platforms, such as Amazon, have many of the same advantages as social platforms, such as a big and engaged audience, targeted advertising, and e-commerce connections. A growing number of enterprises are entering the fray in the United States, Europe, and Latin America; the danger of retail media to social platforms’ future ad revenue growth cannot be overlooked.
It’s easy to conclude from today’s scene that the Social Media Marketing Agency in Dubai has outlived its usefulness. That is not how we perceive things. Marketing and advertising options are bountiful, and consumers continue to interact on the Social media landscape. However, the top players will have a challenging year this year.
