The company, which is owned by Facebook, announced on its blog that it was making advertising available to businesses of all shapes and sizes. This includes small retailers like mom-and-pop stores to giant corporations employing thousands of people.
Instagram’s announcement comes after significant growth at the company. Instagram has expanded to eight countries, and the social networking site is one of the most popular for brand marketing today.
Making ads available to more businesses is a direct result of the company listening to its user base. Users want to be in touch with small, medium, and large companies on the site, so allowing expanded ad features helps businesses and consumers find each other with greater ease. In the next few months, Instagram ads will be available by way of an Instagram Ads API and Facebook ad-buying interfaces.
Since parent company Facebook already boasts more than 2 million advertisers, it’s only natural for Instagram to tap into Facebook’s existing infrastructure to manage its new advertising objective on its site. The start will be slow and gradual: First, a choice group of
Though expanding ads to more businesses is central to Instagram’s announcement, that wasn’t the only thing the company announced. It also revealed plans for expanded targeting options. In the future, advertisers will be empowered to connect with their audiences based on interests, demographics, and information they already have about their consumers.
It’s no surprise that monetization efforts at Instagram are in full swing.With more than 300 million users, that’s a lot of eyeballs. Facebook has been trying to monetize for years, and analysts are now predicting that
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