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

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:Companies are not charities... by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, but I really expected a better lie than "ads". It's like he doesn't even try anymore.

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  2. Already sick of ads on fb by ackthpt · · 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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    1. Re:Already sick of ads on fb by schnell · · Score: 2

      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.

      You are the product on Facebook, and showing you ads is how they make money. If you don't like that business model, why are you using Facebook?

      Like you said, you don't have to like Facebook, and you don't have to like the way they make their money. So why not use Diaspora or some other liberated, un-exploitative, pro-freedom solution that won't trouble you with ads, rather than struggling to find a way to use Facebook in a way that violates their terms of service?

      Surely an evil, non-free exploiter like Facebook can't be so much better than a project that respects your freedom that you wouldn't rather use it instead? And once you explain to your friends how their freedom is being violated, won't they drop Facebook too? It seems pretty obvious to me.

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  3. Translation: by Bieeanda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They'll start serving ads when they're confident that most of their users won't (or can't) move to similar sites. Make it popular, make it indispensable, even, then make it pay. People will put up with a lot of annoyances once inertia's set in.

    1. Re:Translation: by houghi · · Score: 2

      Make it popular, make it indispensable, even, then make it pay.

      Marketeer or drug-dealer? You decide.

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  4. Sure, now i will use instagram by drolli · · 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.