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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by s1artibartfast on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:57PM (#21412339)
I think your numbers are pretty far off if you look at Facebook financial statements, and a more accurate cost would be around $200/yr for a daily user [1]. US & Canada had 189 million daily users and a quarterly Ad revenue of 8.487 Billion dollars. That is $45 per user per quarter.

[1] https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/q3...

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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by ankit219 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:50PM (#21414075)
You might be right. I was replying to the parent comment which said facebook should have a ad free subscription product at $2-3 per year. Just tried to say that the Revenue per user is more than that.

Also, the numbers you posted include all the inventory - facebook news feed, ads on the side right on desktop, instagram, messenger ads, stories ads, instant articles, and even the ad network. According to facebook (read somewhere) 70% of their ads are on the ad network.

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