Meta’s bid to woo creators to Facebook just might work, despite its recent legal woes

Earlier this month, Meta announced its Facebook Creator Fast Track, a program aimed at attracting more creators to the platform by offering guaranteed payouts depending on their follower size on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube.

It’s a clear attempt to build up a robust creator space on a somewhat untapped platform, and there are some benefits for creators and brands alike. Awkwardly, just a few days after the announcement, Meta (and YouTube) were found liable in two separate court cases for harming teenage and younger users via misleading them and deploying addictive tactics.

Digiday spoke with five leaders in the influencer marketing and creator agency space to see if Facebook is a viable option for creators, how it can retain talent, and if Meta’s recent legal woes will change things. For them, Meta’s creator push signals a shift toward more platform agnosticism, and a desire to reach Facebook’s massive distribution.

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As programmatic faces signal degradation, agentic advertising offers a solution

Vlad Stesin, CEO, Optable

Traditional programmatic, the process of holding a 100-millisecond auction between the buyers and sellers of digital media, is wearing thin, but the infrastructure didn’t break overnight. For years now, fragmentation, privacy shifts and signal noise have eroded the programmatic foundation and diminished confidence in how workflows perform. The question is, what is the right infrastructure for the long term?

Before the term signal loss gained popularity, media owners and their advertising partners grew accustomed to “hacking” the programmatic auction to increase the value of their inventory. While those reactions addressed the symptoms, they never solved the root issue.

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