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Instagram Rolls Out Plan For In-Feed Advertisments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 9, 2013 @11:54AM from the imagemagick-to-remain-ad-free dept.

New submitter cagraham writes "The currently ad-free Instagram has announced a plan to monetize its services by selling premium placement to brands. 35 year old Emily White is in charge of making Instagram profitable, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move shows the new priorities of parent-company Facebook, who now has to worry about appeasing shareholders, as well as fending off rivals such as Twitter. Whether Instagram's young and growing user base will balk at the ads, or even notice them, remains to be seen."

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Damm. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-09 12:00 · Score: 1, Insightful

Is there anything advertisers can't turn to shit?
xkcd - Instagram by tokiko · 2013-09-09 12:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

http://xkcd.com/1150/
Re:I think it is necessary by DogDude · 2013-09-09 12:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

No, the Internet used to be ad-free. People used to use the Internet to learn things, and to share information with other people. Until the unwashed massed got to it in the mid 90's, the Internet was wonderful: Email, Gopher, WWW, FTP, etc.

In fact, those bits of the Internet are still there, but they've been overwhelmed and vastly out-numbered by people more interested in money than being an intelligent, compassionate human being.

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