>which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge, as it looks to help content creators grow and build communities
Useless bullshit. I was hoping for a paid model where you can get rid of ads for good. Instagram has become unusable over the past year as they shove ads into more and more places. Its like reading a book and every time you turn the page, you have a random chance of getting smacked in the face.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
problam with paying to stop ads is - the people most willing to pay to stop ads are richer than average and meta earns more from serving ads to them than they are willing to pay
YouTube made 28bn in ad revenue and probably somewhere in the range of 5-10bn (and growing) in ad-free subscription revenue last year, so it's clearly a viable model even if what you say is partially true. That said, I'd argue that YouTube's content is far more valuable than Meta's, and its ads are far more intrusive, so the incentive to pay is much higher.
That's a good point, I had never looked at it that way. But here's my counterpoint: the people willing to pay to stop seeing ads are the ones who are most hostile, and therefore least susceptible, to online advertising. I've been online since the early 90s and I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've intentionally clicked on an ad.
Still, I guess you are not that certain how many times an ad has affected your subconscious and triggered some change in your commercial decisions later on. The whole brand awareness, etc.
Useless bullshit. I was hoping for a paid model where you can get rid of ads for good. Instagram has become unusable over the past year as they shove ads into more and more places. Its like reading a book and every time you turn the page, you have a random chance of getting smacked in the face.