Small businesses are algorithmically disadvantaged on Meta Ads due to small budgets
Meta's ad algorithm favors large advertisers with big budgets, leaving small businesses with poor delivery, slow learning phases, and high costs per result. There is no native way for small businesses to pool resources or reach algorithmic efficiency thresholds. 203 upvotes confirm this is a widely felt structural disadvantage in digital advertising.
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