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Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers
- oculusthrift 10y agoInstagram has a real ad quality problem. I routinely get ads like "99 percent off Yeezy's!!!!!" This links to clear scam websites.
- tcdent 10y agoIn my experience, ads are targeted based on your social graph. I routinely see ads relevant to my lifestyle or occupation, never those for spammy products or trashy memes.
- oculusthrift 10y agonot sure about that. if anything its most likely location because this summer when i was in silicon valley i got ads for jobs. however on my college campus its these trashy ones.
- marak830 10y agoI'm getting location based too. Which is always interesting as the ads are in Japanese, so I can't even read them.
- darkstar999 10y agoInteresting, almost all of the ads I see are high quality and mostly brands you already recognize.
- speg 10y agoInstagram has become my favourite platform. Every time I log into Facebook all I see is a wall of poor quality shared posts ranging from random truck videos to fake news. The relative quiet on Instagram, knowing I'm going to be getting only photos is serene.
- aphextron 10y agoSame. I use Facebook for nothing but messaging now, and have every other feature blocked with my adblocker.
- doughj3 10y agoYou can use messenger directly at https://www.messenger.com/ https://www.messenger.com/
- vit05 10y agoIs there a tinfoil to just use Messenger?
- thex10 10y agoI'm not sure what you mean, but it's now possible to deactivate your FB account and continue to use Messenger.
- vit05 10y agoSorry, I was asking if there is something similar to Tinfoil for Facebook, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco.fbwrapper&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco... , but just for Messenger.
- FreakyT 10y agoMy favorite thing Facebook has rolled out in years. So convenient to just point my browser there instead of having a massive pile of distractions waiting every time I want to answer a message.
- mwambua 10y agoOne major win for Instagram (Besides the just-pictures you mentioned) is that following isn't a mutual thing, so there's no social pressure to be 'friends' with someone even though you're not interested in the content they generate.
- taytus 10y agoFull Disclosure: I'm the developer of statimgram.com I believe Instagram will continue to keep growing, and I wanted to help advertisers and users to have more tools to engage and reach their followers. Now with statimgram, you can schedule and post from the browser not only regular posts, but also directly into IG stories. We are launching next week, and I'm opening the API to developers as well, if you want early access please message me.
- slackoverflower 10y agoDoes this violate their terms of service? I've heard they do not want desktop uploading or any form of uploading media through the API. I can't seem to find an API reference for uploading on api.instagram.com
- federicoponzi 10y agoIt's funny because when you want to buy ads on facebook, you spend something like 80% of budget on facebook and the remaining 20% on instagram by default
- siquick 10y agoThere is a clear option to define the placement of the ad, and turning off Instagram is the first option you see.
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoThere is a real power in the default options though - and when the FB ads first started allowing IG as a placement it wasn't the case.
- georgiecasey 10y agoi agree, loads of casual FB advertisers surely just leave on Instagram the power of the Adwords and FB Ads customer base is sometimes overlooked I find. if Instagram stayed independent and had to build their own ad-customer base, would they have been as successful?
- slackoverflower 10y agoInstagram is awesome. I wish Facebook did not own them and Instagram stayed independent like Snapchat.
- jasonmarks 10y agoha you're getting downvoted. I would only agree with this
- RodericDay 10y agoI don't understand why this post is downvoted. I feel the same way.
- acchow 10y agoWhat would be different if Instagram was independent?
- tcdent 10y agoFacebook has become a privacy nightmare and has numerous concerns w/r/t ownership and management. Their role is the only reason I have any hesitation using Instagram, though I do fully embrace the platform anyway.
- dbbk 10y agoCan you articulate what it is about Facebook that is a 'privacy nightmare'?
- oculusthrift 10y agonot sure what the poster was talking about but the advertising became creepily targeted
- daenney 10y agoThere's actually an interesting comment on the article itself: > Kind of misleading...when you start advertising on Facebook it automatically opts you in to advertising on Instagram. I don't know if this is true or not but that could certainly explain how their advertiser numbers ballooned like that.
- bobwaycott 10y agoIt is true. Every ad, promotion, or boosted post defaults to placement in news feeds on FB desktop and mobile, and Instagram.
- prdonahue 10y agoHas anyone noticed a huge influx of ads when using Instagram? Admittedly I'm an infrequent user but as I use Facebook less I find that time being spent on IG. One technique that has worked for me to reduce the number of ads I see is to report every single one as "I find this offensive". Do that enough times and you won't see an ad for a long time.
- arvidj 10y agoI wonder if they have some system in place to notice and counter-act this.
- prdonahue 10y agoPerhaps, but in today's world if you tell a company you find something offensive they're likely to listen (for fear of PR fallout). Admittedly, I find all ads offensive (to my time) so it's disingenuous but it works—for now—so I'll keep doing it.
- zimmund 10y agoI noticed a change in the last few days too. It went from one or two ads each session to one ad every few photos :/
- ergl 10y agoSame, I've only seen two ads since they started rolling them out. The first time, you could report them as spam, so I did so. The second time, months after that, I reported it as offensive. It might not make any difference, but I can say that compared to most people I know that use Instagram, I get almost no ads, the last one being three months ago.
- stedaniels 10y agoI used to love Instagram, but since I tried to register an account for a new business (which it blocked before I could even sign in, thus consigning the username into oblivion) I haven't been able to log back into my personal account. It keeps sending me through a verify phase because of suspicious activity on my account. This leads to my successfully verifying, and then ending up at a 500 server error page, or a bad request 400 error page.[0] Attempts to search for this on the Instagram help page.. oh my gosh, I get as far as typing two characters into the search box and it locks me out saying I'm too fast. [1] (the search box is search as you type.) I try and report that as an error using an included link on that page, and low and behold that page is also having problems. [2] It's a bit of a cluster... in my experience. I really want to get back into my Instagram account! I'm missing out getting advertised too, and I'm missing out advertising to others, it's pretty much a double whammy! P.S. I'd love to prove I'm not a dirty spammer and get into the new business account too, but all attempts to fill out that form with the relevant evidence on Facebook/Instagram has been ignored. [0] http://imgur.com/UMp6TTV http://imgur.com/UMp6TTV [1] http://imgur.com/bbQtPPL http://imgur.com/bbQtPPL [2] http://imgur.com/BTgNLAY http://imgur.com/BTgNLAY
- dilemma 10y agoOh, I had something similar happen. I had 3 (legitimate) accounts banned at the same time, for no reason. When I went through the verification process, the upload button wouldn't work, and the contact link would give a 400. Some weeks later it started working, but basically it's a clusterf*k. It's a clear example of a dumb system, caused by artificial stupidity (AI in practice) and poor organisation.
- andrewpbrett 10y agoHas anyone else had the experience of seeing almost zero ads on Instagram since they introduced them? I can count the number I've seen on one hand. I marked the first couple, right after they launched them, as not relevant (they weren't) and since then I think I've seen two, one in the feed and one in their Stories feature.
- raulk 10y agoWhenever you create an ad on FB, it is also placed on Instagram by default. I wonder how many out of that 1M were people who didn't disable the default.
- rednerrus 10y agoThe advertisements on IG are pretty good. I find that I want to buy about 40% of the products they advertise to me. That's as good as I've seen in 20 years of web browsing.
- skilled 10y agoAwesome. Give yourself a pat on the back.
- astannard 10y agoInstagram was cool, now it's going downhill in my opinion due to many spam accounts. Here is my highly opinionated piece on it: https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/an-open-letter-to-instagram-c59258073563#.bfazod73g https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/an-open-letter-to-instagram...