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Everyone says Facebook is dead.

Around three billion people did not get the memo. One obsession: turning the largest, most underestimated audience in social into measurable business results.

With around 3.07 billion monthly users and over two billion logging in daily, Facebook is not where trends start, it is where the customers are and where the money gets made. We run it as a Meta Business Partner across more than 300 clients.

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3.07Bmonthly users, ~63% of the internet
2B+people log in every single day
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Why Facebook still matters

The platform it is fashionable to write off, and exactly why that is an opportunity.

The "Facebook is dead" story is one of marketing's most expensive myths. The numbers tell a very different tale.

Still the biggest room in the world

Meta reports around 3.07 billion monthly and over two billion daily users, the largest audience of any social network, with advertising said to reach close to a third of the planet. Writing that off is a three-billion-person mistake.

Where the customers and the money are

Facebook is not the platform people pose on. It is the one they buy on. The 40-plus audience is huge, loyal and holds real spending power. Add Groups, Marketplace and the deepest behavioral data in social, and you have a platform built for demand and conversion, not just reach.

Still the web's best traffic engine

Facebook was designed from the start to share links and send people onward, and it remains one of the best channels for driving qualified traffic to your own site, where you own the relationship, the data and the conversion. Paired with CRO, few channels work harder.

The engine room of Meta advertising

It anchors Meta's ad business, projected to take around 125 billion dollars in 2026, and its AI ad suite, Advantage+, is used by the large majority of advertisers because it works. Run together with Instagram, it is one connected, addressable audience at enormous scale.

Figures on this page come from Meta and industry data, move over time, and are benchmarks rather than guaranteed outcomes.

The 2026 shift

Advantage+ is the default now, not the experiment.

Meta has moved from optional AI assist to AI-first buying. The lever has shifted from building audiences to feeding the machine strong creative and clean signals, which is exactly where a specialist earns their keep.

  • Advantage+ campaigns passed a $75B annualised revenue run rate.
  • Sales, App and Leads defaulted to Advantage+ in 2025; manual and AI flows unified by early 2026.
  • Meta 2025 ad revenue reached $196B, up 22 percent.

Source: Meta earnings and product updates, 2025 to 2026. Illustrative.

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Strategy & audience

Facebook's superpower is its data and its scale.

The skill is pointing both at the right people with the right offer.

Target

Audience strategy

First-party and behavioral audiences, lookalikes and retargeting built on Meta's deepest-in-social data.

Plan

Full-funnel planning

From broad awareness to direct conversion and traffic to your site, mapped to your goals and margins, and run across Instagram where it makes sense.

Presence

Communities and presence

Page, Groups and Marketplace working together, not in isolation.

Scale is easy on Facebook. Spending it on the right people is the whole job.

Content & creative

Native to Facebook, not copy-pasted from somewhere else.

Facebook's audience is not Instagram's and definitely not TikTok's. Reposting the same clips everywhere is the fastest way to fail here.

Native to Facebook, and to its audience

Content built for how people actually use Facebook, especially the large and valuable 40-plus audience, made to meet their needs rather than copy-pasted from networks with a different crowd.

Longer video is welcome

Facebook's audience has a longer attention span than the short-form crowd, so longer explainers, storytelling and value-led video work here where they would be skipped elsewhere.

Built to drive the click

Creative designed not just for reach, but to send qualified people to your site, because Facebook is one of the web's great traffic builders.

Predicted and on-brand

WAndrome forecasts which creative will win before you spend, and our Coherence check keeps every asset tied to the brand and the objective.

The brands that win on Facebook make content for Facebook, not leftovers from somewhere else.

The 2026 shift

Andromeda and GEM rewrote how ads get matched.

Meta rebuilt its ad stack around two AI systems. Andromeda decides which ads are eligible, GEM ranks them, and together they reward creative diversity and broad targeting over hyper-segmented audiences.

  • Andromeda: Meta cites roughly 10,000x higher model complexity, with gains in recall and ad quality.
  • GEM, the generative ads recommendation model, reported far more efficient at driving performance.
  • So account structure and creative now matter more than manual audiences.

Source: Meta and Search Engine Land, 2025. Illustrative.

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Our proprietary edge

WAndrome: predict the winning creative before you spend.

Predict winners before spend

Computer vision + language
  • Trained on more than 10 million creatives
  • Forecasts which ad creative will win, integrated with Meta's Andromeda system

Weeks to minutes

Speed
  • Takes creative analysis from weeks down to minutes
  • So spend follows evidence, not opinion

Recover wasted budget

Efficiency
  • Recovers a meaningful share of the media budget normally burned in testing
  • On a platform where most ad waste happens in the experimental phase

A multimodal AI built for Meta, and hard to copy overnight: a real edge where creative is the biggest lever.

Facebook Ads & Advantage+

What Facebook is best at, run by specialists.

Where our Meta Business Partner experience across 300-plus clients shows.

AI, steered

Advantage+, run by specialists

Meta's AI ad suite, used by most advertisers because it performs, steered with the human judgement that separates good results from great ones.

Full funnel

Prospecting to Shopping

Prospecting, retargeting, traffic and Advantage+ Shopping, run with the same discipline as the rest of our media, alongside our Programmatic & Agentic team.

Evidence

Creative that wins, in advance

WAndrome feeds the ad account the assets most likely to perform, so spend follows evidence.

The reach is unmatched, the targeting is unmatched, and with WAndrome the creative is no longer a guess.

Community, Groups & Marketplace

Beyond ads, Facebook is where communities still live.

And where a lot of buying and selling still happens.

Belonging

Groups and community

Building and managing the spaces where your most engaged customers gather.

Commerce

Marketplace and commerce

Putting products where people are already browsing to buy.

Reputation

Service and reputation

Fast, human responses where customers expect them, connected to our wider Customer Experience work.

A page broadcasts. A community compounds. We help you build the second.

Proof, not promises

More than 300 Facebook projects, run as a Meta Business Partner.

Facebook is a core specialism we have run at scale as a Meta Business Partner, powered by WAndrome, our predictive creative engine trained on more than ten million creatives.

300+Facebook projects as a Meta Business Partner
MetaBusiness Partner, across the full family
10M+creatives behind WAndrome, our engine
2018driving Meta performance since
Retail & commerce

Advantage+ at scale

AI-first buying steered by specialists, fed with creative volume and clean signals.

Lead generation

Native lead machines

Instant forms and CRM-connected journeys that turn scale into qualified pipeline.

Creative

Predicted before spend

WAndrome scores creative before budget goes in, so Andromeda always has winners to rank.

Part of 500-plus brands we have driven digital performance for since 2018. Explore the work in our Showcases.

Why Wise Pirates for Facebook

Most agencies dismiss Facebook or run it on autopilot. We treat it as the powerhouse it still is.

Business results, not vanity reach

Tied to conversion, ROAS, customer acquisition cost, traffic and revenue.

One purpose

The best of digital, marketing, people and technology, aimed at driving your business results.

A Meta Business Partner

Years of Meta partnership and experience across more than 300 clients.

Native content for the real audience

Made for Facebook and its 40-plus core, not copy-pasted from other networks.

One of the web's best traffic engines

Built to send qualified visitors to your own site, where you own the conversion.

A proprietary creative edge

WAndrome predicts winning creative before you spend, which nobody else in the market can offer you.

As a Meta Business Partner, we have run Facebook and Instagram for more than 300 clients across retail, finance, industry, food, tourism, energy and more, part of 500+ brands we have driven digital performance for since 2018. In our Showcases you will find the brands and cases we have worked alongside.

Frequently asked questions

The questions we hear most.

Is Facebook still relevant in 2026?
Very, despite the headlines. Meta reports Facebook at around 3.07 billion monthly users, roughly 63% of everyone on the internet, with over two billion logging in daily. It remains the largest social network and the core of Meta's advertising business, which is projected to take around 125 billion dollars in 2026. The Facebook is dead narrative is one of marketing's most expensive myths: for reach, data, traffic and direct-response performance, little else in social comes close.
Who actually uses Facebook now?
A broad, valuable audience. The largest single age group is 25 to 34, but the 40-plus audience is enormous and, crucially, has real spending power, which is part of why Facebook converts so well. It is genuinely cross-generational, and most users are on it daily and on mobile. The idea that everyone left for newer platforms is not what the numbers show; they simply use Facebook alongside the others.
What content works best on Facebook, and how should it differ from other networks?
The golden rule is native, not copy-paste. Facebook's audience, especially the large 40-plus core, uses the platform differently from TikTok or Instagram users, so reposting the same clips everywhere underperforms. Facebook rewards content made for its crowd and their needs, and because that audience has a longer attention span, longer-form video, explainers and storytelling work well here where they would be skipped on short-form platforms. We build for the Facebook audience specifically, rather than recycling assets designed for somewhere else.
Is Facebook good for driving traffic to my website?
Yes, it is one of the best. Facebook was designed from the start to share links and send people off-platform, and it remains a top channel for driving qualified traffic to your own site, where you own the relationship, the data and the conversion. Unlike platforms built to keep attention in-app, Facebook is happy to send people out to you. Paired with strong landing pages and our CRO work, it is a genuine workhorse for traffic and lead generation.
Do Facebook ads still work?
For most brands, Facebook is still the strongest direct-response platform in social. Its reach is unmatched, its targeting data is the deepest in the category, and its AI ad suite, Advantage+, is now used by the large majority of advertisers because it performs. Meta reports AI-driven bidding meaningfully outperforming manual management. The combination of scale, data and AI is why Facebook ads remain a core revenue channel, not a legacy one.
What is Meta Advantage+?
Advantage+ is Meta's AI-powered advertising suite that automates targeting, placements, budget and increasingly creative, across Facebook and Instagram. It uses machine learning to find the people most likely to convert and to optimize in real time, and Meta reports it outperforming manual setups on return on ad spend. It is powerful, but it is not set-and-forget: the brands that win pair Advantage+ with expert strategy, strong creative and tight measurement, which is exactly how we run it.
How do Facebook and Instagram work together?
They are two surfaces of the same Meta machine, sharing audiences, data and the ad system. Run together, they let you reach one connected audience across feeds, Reels and Stories, with budget flowing to whatever performs best. Most brands should plan them as one ecosystem rather than two silos. We run Facebook and Instagram together, so reach and efficiency compound instead of competing.
What is WAndrome, and how does it improve Facebook ad performance?
WAndrome is our proprietary multimodal AI platform for predictive creative intelligence, built specifically for Meta. Trained on more than 10 million creatives, it uses computer vision and natural language to forecast which ad creative will perform before you spend, integrating with Meta's Andromeda system. In practice it takes creative analysis from weeks to minutes and recovers a meaningful share of the media budget usually lost in testing. Because creative is the biggest lever on Meta performance, predicting winners in advance is a genuine, hard-to-copy edge. You can learn more at wandrome.com.
Are Facebook Groups and community still valuable?
Yes, arguably more than ever. As feeds get noisier, Groups are where genuinely engaged communities gather around interests, brands and locations. They drive loyalty, word of mouth and repeat business in a way a broadcast page cannot, and they give brands a direct, ongoing relationship with their most valuable customers. We help build and run communities that compound, rather than pages that just publish.
Is Facebook good for ecommerce and Marketplace?
For many brands, very. Facebook combines high-intent advertising, especially Advantage+ Shopping, shoppable content, Marketplace, and its strength at driving traffic to your own store. The platform's data makes product discovery and retargeting genuinely effective, and it connects naturally to your wider commerce. We link Facebook commerce and traffic to your CRO and Marketplaces work so clicks turn into revenue.
How is AI changing Facebook marketing?
Profoundly, on both sides of the screen. Meta's AI now runs much of targeting, bidding and optimization through Advantage+, and is increasingly generating and editing creative. On our side, WAndrome predicts which creative will win before spend. The opportunity is more performance with less waste; the risk is generic, machine-made content that all looks the same. We use AI for scale and prediction, and keep human craft and judgement in charge of the brand.
How do you measure Facebook ROI?
By tying activity to revenue, not reach. We track conversions, ROAS, cost per acquisition, qualified traffic and customer lifetime value as the core scorecard, with reach and engagement as early signals. Because creative is the biggest performance lever, we also measure creative efficiency, helped by WAndrome's predictions. Everything is judged on your own account and your business outcomes, not on platform averages or vanity metrics.
Everyone underestimates it

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