Zuckerberg: Ads On Instagram "When the Right Time Comes"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 25, 2013 @09:29AM from the old-looking-ads dept.

An anonymous reader writes "During his company's quarterly earnings call, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed how Instagram will be monetized. The answer isn't too surprising: there is a big expectation for the app to one day be profitable, and advertising will be the name of the game. 'Kevin [Systrom] has always been clear that we're building Instagram to be a business,' Zuckerberg said. 'We expect over time to generate a lot of profit from it. We think the right focus for now is to continue increasing the footprint of Instagram and, when the right time comes, we'll think about advertising.'"

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Already sick of ads on fb by ackthpt · 2013-07-25 09:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

Adblock Plus isn't catching them now, as they're randomizing the tag identities and refreshing periodically.
Because of obnoxious ads I abandoned Yahoo ages ago, this could drive me away from fb.
Great, they have to make their money on ads, I don't have to like it and if I can work a way to block them I will.

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Sure, now i will use instagram by drolli · 2013-07-25 09:56 · Score: 3, Insightful

*slap palm on face*
I will for sure process my photos on my local harddrive. If you want my content to place ads on, then fucking buy it. Until then i will cash out the 2 Euro per year which is costs me to host my photo collection on amazon s3.