Tech Break

Jan 19th 2017

Tech Break 3575

Instagram Stories Adds Ads

Instagram is adding full-screen ads to your stories, but you can skip them.

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Category: TWiT Bits

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk about Instagram's announcement to start rolling 15-second advertisements into your stories. Instagram is adding full-screen ads to your stories, but you can skip them. Copying Snapchat's stories has been a successful move for Instagram. Since launching Stories five months ago, Instagram has gone from 100 million daily users to a 150 million daily users. Maybe that's why Instagram's description of the way ads will work in their stories seems suspiciously similar to the way ads work in Snapchat stories.

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