I guess it is inevitable that Instagram will sooner or later fall victim to advertising but I guess it’s nice to have a social media that doesn’t bombard us with ads. Facebook executives have been upfront with saying that at some point Insta will include advertising. See what Zuckerberg had to say about it after the jump ..
“[CEO] Kevin [Systrom] has always been clear that we’re building Instagram to be a business, and we expect that over time, we’re going to generate a lot of profit from it, probably through advertising. Now, that all said, right now, it’s just growing so quickly. I mean, the number that we’ve just said was 130 million monthly actives, [and the] video product is growing really quickly. There are so many directions to expand this in that we think that the right focus for now is to continue just focusing on increasing the footprint of Instagram, and when the right time comes, we’ll think about doing advertising, as well, and I think that’s going to be a really big opportunity.”
