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I don't have an Instagram account, so please excuse my ignorance, but I was under the assumption that a lot of content on Instagram is "sponsored content" anywa

I don't have an Instagram account, so please excuse my ignorance, but I was under the assumption that a lot of content on Instagram is "sponsored content" anyway? So you're looking at ads anyway?

ceejayoz 4y ago
Depends how you curate your feed.
- Schiphol 4y ago
  Is there a way to curate away those sponsored posts?
  - lancesells 4y ago
    Don't follow people with more than 5000 followers.
  - ceejayoz 4y ago
    Sure. Unfollow when you see one.
    - schrodinger 4y ago
      I definitely see posts from accounts I’m not following.
    - caskstrength 4y ago
      Are you from 2012 or something? Instagram has been showing promoted posts from accounts I'm not following for ages.
      - ceejayoz 4y ago
        Those are just ads. The posts up thread making a distinction between ads and sponsored content I take to mean influencers shilling company products/services directly in posts outside of the Facebook ad network.
kylecordes 4y ago
Instagram used to be mostly photos from people I knew or followed or whatever. Nowadays it is 95% ads/sponsored/influencer content. Almost pointless to visit. But I think this might be a result mostly of people not posting photos as much.
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technion 4y ago
The irony is that the most promoted company on Facebook isn't paying for those ads with sponsorship. I just opened Facebook and here's the top "suggested post". Of course it's a "news" story, which is itself just a repost of someone's Tiktok video. The Tiktok logo is prominently displayed in the tumbnail. https://imgur.com/a/YJoiR4A https://imgur.com/a/YJoiR4A In between all that content, is Facebook Reels. Most promoted Reels are just reposts from Tiktok. There was literally a "Content Creator" named "It's gone viral on Tiktok!" that for a while was the most commonly promoted Facebook reel I would see. Edit: here's a screenshot of Reels: https://imgur.com/a/OhVvbSf https://imgur.com/a/OhVvbSf

I don't have an Instagram account, so please excuse my ignorance, but I was under the assumption that a lot of content on Instagram is "sponsored content" anyway? So you're looking at ads anyway?

ceejayoz 4y ago

Depends how you curate your feed.

Schiphol 4y ago
Is there a way to curate away those sponsored posts?
- lancesells 4y ago
  Don't follow people with more than 5000 followers.
- ceejayoz 4y ago
  Sure. Unfollow when you see one.
  - schrodinger 4y ago
    I definitely see posts from accounts I’m not following.
  - caskstrength 4y ago
    Are you from 2012 or something? Instagram has been showing promoted posts from accounts I'm not following for ages.
    - ceejayoz 4y ago
      Those are just ads. The posts up thread making a distinction between ads and sponsored content I take to mean influencers shilling company products/services directly in posts outside of the Facebook ad network.

kylecordes 4y ago

Instagram used to be mostly photos from people I knew or followed or whatever. Nowadays it is 95% ads/sponsored/influencer content. Almost pointless to visit. But I think this might be a result mostly of people not posting photos as much.

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technion 4y ago

The irony is that the most promoted company on Facebook isn't paying for those ads with sponsorship. I just opened Facebook and here's the top "suggested post". Of course it's a "news" story, which is itself just a repost of someone's Tiktok video. The Tiktok logo is prominently displayed in the tumbnail. https://imgur.com/a/YJoiR4A https://imgur.com/a/YJoiR4A In between all that content, is Facebook Reels. Most promoted Reels are just reposts from Tiktok. There was literally a "Content Creator" named "It's gone viral on Tiktok!" that for a while was the most commonly promoted Facebook reel I would see. Edit: here's a screenshot of Reels: https://imgur.com/a/OhVvbSf https://imgur.com/a/OhVvbSf