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Artificial intelligence has been a shot in the arm for digital advertising.

and Alphabet

both reported sales and earnings that beat Wall Street’s expectations, but the strength in digital ad spend was notable.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the earnings call that AI helped imbue “greater efficiency and gains across our ad system,” thus contributing to the 22% year-over-year increase of second-quarter sales that hit $47.52 billion.