Meta’s US ARPU rises 31% YoY to $125 in Q2 as Instagram crosses 2 billion daily users

Meta just turned in a quarter that makes its already-dominant advertising business look like it found another gear. The company reported Q2 2026 revenue of $60.8 billion, a 28% year-over-year increase, with US average revenue per user climbing 31% to $125. The numbers behind the surge Revenue per hour of user time grew 27% year-over-year, which tells a slightly different story than raw ARPU growth. Meta isn’t just making more money because people are spending more time scrolling. It’s making more money per minute of attention it captures. Instagram posted a 12% increase in US daily active time, meaning Americans are spending meaningfully more of their day on the platform. Combined with the revenue-per-hour gains, Meta is winning on both sides of the equation: more time spent and more value extracted from each unit of that time. Instagram crossed 2 billion daily active users globally for the first time. Not monthly actives, which is the gentler metric companies tend to highlight, but daily actives. Across Meta’s full family of apps, which includes Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, daily active people averaged 3.60 billion in June 2026. That figure grew 3% year-over-year....