Instagram grows to 1M active advertisers
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The relative quiet on Instagram, knowing I'm going to be getting only photos is serene.
The only time I browse my FB newsfeed is on my phone when I've run out of any other interesting content online. I never browse it on my desktop. I do use FB messenger quite frequently.
I like Instagram and Snapchat because they are what Facebook used to be: real content created by and shared by your friends. Not links to bullshit articles. Not advertisements. Just content that your friends created for you to watch.
One technique that has worked for me to reduce the number of ads I see is to report every single one as "I find this offensive". Do that enough times and you won't see an ad for a long time.
It might not make any difference, but I can say that compared to most people I know that use Instagram, I get almost no ads, the last one being three months ago.
It's a bit of a cluster... in my experience.
I really want to get back into my Instagram account!
I'm missing out getting advertised too, and I'm missing out advertising to others, it's pretty much a double whammy!
P.S. I'd love to prove I'm not a dirty spammer and get into the new business account too, but all attempts to fill out that form with the relevant evidence on Facebook/Instagram has been ignored.
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> Kind of misleading...when you start advertising on Facebook it automatically opts you in to advertising on Instagram.
I don't know if this is true or not but that could certainly explain how their advertiser numbers ballooned like that.
the power of the Adwords and FB Ads customer base is sometimes overlooked I find. if Instagram stayed independent and had to build their own ad-customer base, would they have been as successful?
https://medium.com/@AndyStannard/an-open-letter-to-instagram...
I believe Instagram will continue to keep growing, and I wanted to help advertisers and users to have more tools to engage and reach their followers.
Now with statimgram, you can schedule and post from the browser not only regular posts, but also directly into IG stories.
We are launching next week, and I'm opening the API to developers as well, if you want early access please message me.
Also, your method will 100% get people blocked. You say it's secret sauce, but you don't seem to take into account that most people here are tech folk. There are only so many ways. I know, and I guarantee it, that you use Instagram's private API by imitating the Android app. This is tripple-wrong. You violate their community terms, you violate reverse-engineering terms and you don't communicate this to your customers.
Anyone who asks for someone else's Instagram credentials automatically is in breach of their terms. So none of our businesses would even be possible. But there clearly is room for interpretation (and I've talked through this with their lawyers, too). But your approach is not where the flexibility is at the moment.
Any social-media agency is asking their clients for credentials. They violate the terms, there is no ifs and buts. Still, this will be fine. Instagram isn't entirely robotic. But you've got to approach it from the right side of things. Use the official unmodified app, use a real phone. That's the minimum. We've been running a business on those (tough) minimum requirements, and service some of the largest brands in the world. They are aware of the risk that anything can happen to their accounts at any time. But our adherence to the crucial parts helps us stay above board.
This suggests that you're either using people, have found an effective automated method, or have reached agreement with IG.
If the first: how well will that scale with growth? If the second: what happens when the block this current method, or otherwise block your ability to do this because it violates some obscure ToS clause?
If the third: congratulations and best of luck!
the work the Spanish developer puts into this 3rd party API is crazy and all the issues are from Indian spammers demanding he fixes it!
But that is the issue, you as a developer and provider may not run afoul of the terms directly, but your users will.
Section 10 in the Basic Terms forbids accessing Instagrams Private API's.
And if that isn't being used and you are a user of Instagram are running afoul of Section 4 of those terms in soliciting, collecting, or using the login credentials of other users. As well as your naming being in conflict with Terms and trademarks.
Unless you're offering the service, through a reminder system with push notifications, you or yoru customer is probably breaking the Terms somewhere. You should probably have a lawyer verify that you're not running straight into a legal mess.
The consequences are nonexistent to negligible at best.
If in this case Instagram kills someone's account because of this service, then Statimgram takes on the possible liability of damages if its worth it to the brand.
Having an understanding of how people spin up accounts on Instagram and build mass real targeted followers quickly and cheaply, it wouldn't even be worth it to sue. But again, Statimgram's liability. Low risk proposition though.
Unless you build a business model around violating them, and they shut you down when they discover it...
Arbitrary changes are always a risk when it comes to building for a third party platform, but if you're violating the ToS from the start, it's just asking for a 'worst case' scenario for your company and customers.
Not in all cases. I work for a company that has a Facebook app at its core, and while we'd love to use a service like this to post to Instagram, it'd risk Facebook shutting our main app's access to the Facebook API down.