Instagram Stories Hits 150M Active Users, Adds Advertising To Instagram Stories (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Instagram Stories now has as many users as the last number announced by Snapchat, the app Instagram copied. And it's swiftly moving to monetize that massive audience. Along with the new 150 million daily user stat, Instagram today announced the launch of ads mixed into Stories. The unclickable 5-second photo and 15-second video ads appear between different people's stories and can be easily skipped. Instagram will also provide business accounts with analytics on the reach, impressions, replies and exits of their Stories.

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Yay!! More advertising!

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Yay!! More advertising! Just what I always wanted, thank you Instagram!

Re:Yay!! More advertising!

[Gr8Apes]

Well, you've got 2 choices: A) Demanding Instagram charge a monthly fee for no-adverts accounts, B) Running your own photo-sharing web-site and paying the costs for all your subscribers.

Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it. There's no costs, and no real connectivity issues considering most people will see little more than a few tens of connections at most downloading pics, unless you get a viral hit. Even then, upload speeds are so pathetic, the "correct" way of sharing would be republishing those pics, and life would get a lot better for everyone except the centralized services.

Re:Yay!! More advertising!

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Or C) Run you own photo sharing web site and be done with it.

And that's exactly what I do...I have a nice gallery script set up on one of my domains and if people want to see my pics (or share some of their own) then they can go there. No muss, no fuss, no ads, and no spammers crapping all over the site either.

No creepers talking shit or stalking anyone, no lamers uploading pics of this morning's breakfast bagel, and no corporate entities telling me what to buy.

Until InstaCramp can give me that experience, I have no interest in their service.

Instagram is Facebook. Avoid Facebook.

[Futurepower(R)]

One of the stories: Facebook just ruined Instagram. (2016-08-06)

It amazes me that Facebook and Google and Microsoft and Adobe Systems believe they can use most people's ignorance of technology to abuse customers.

Another story: "The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer.".

Another quote: "The offer was even more impressive given Instagram's size and age. At the time, it had just 13 employees, operating out of a cramped space in the South Park section of San Francisco."

And the cattle go.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Moooooooooooooooooo..........

Ublock/adblock rules...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone have a solution for the "sponsored ads" showing in/as the main page stories? On Ublock Origin, using wildcards to block them don't seem to work. If I can't find a solution, it's going to be bye bye /. I don't want to see ads, and if they're forced it's not worth my time going to those sites anymore.

snapchat is myspace

[turkeydance]

instagram is facebook

Re:Prediction

[thomn8r]

Hold up - slashdot has ads? WTF?

Re:Prediction

[DivineKnight]

Seriously. Anyone who has attained 'Contributor' (made a half-dozen comments that were on topic in the last month? IDK) status gets a nice checkbox to turn them off; but then, if you only ever post AC, you wouldn't know that, would you?

Re:Best adblocker (+ more 4 speed & security)

[LinuxIsGarbage]

APK,

How well does your HOSTS file work at my workplace where all web browsing traffic goes across a proxy?

Joke

[Neo-Rio-101]

Q. How much does a foodblogger weigh?
A. An instagram