B
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57%
57% -- social media advertising usage rate for Facebook - UK small businesses (2025)
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Value
57%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Sample Size
1,000
Geography
UK
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Savanta
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Tier A
https://savanta.com/knowledge-centre/view/navigating-the-social-media-ad-space-key-insights-for-busi… ↗
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Navigating the social media ad space: Key insights for businesses - Savanta
Think about how targeted the ads are across your various social media platforms. They seem to know what you want before you even think about it! Businesses invest a significant portion of their budgets to keep their audience engaged longer. Savanta’s most recent Business Tracker surveyed 1,000 UK bu…
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Savanta
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Methodology
Savanta Business Tracker survey of 1,000 UK business decision-makers
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Segmentation
Industrycontent_marketing,media_entertainment
Company SizeSMB
RegionUK
Channelsocial
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Facebook - UK small businesses: 57% social media advertising usage rate. Source: Savanta (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/facebook-ad-use-small-uk
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