Meta ran more than 450 paid advertisements across its platforms – including Facebook and Instagram – in a mere 15 weeks for the sale of prescription and recreational drugs, according to a new ...

Meta spent billions on AI and earned $201B in 2025, yet Instagram's own ad system approved CSAM ads in India, exposing a ...

Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. The ads, seen by the BBC World Service, use terms including "rape video" and ...

It’s no secret that Meta’s biggest source of profit comes from advertising. However, it seems that the company is willing to make advertising a bit more intrusive, at least on Instagram. That’s ...

Instagram confirmed it is testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media. These new ad breaks will display a countdown timer that stops users from being ...

Instagram seems to be getting more ads, and these are even worse than the old ones. Credit: picture alliance/getty images Meta's Instagram has concocted a new way to keep you from doomscrolling, but ...

Instagram is testing a new feature that would make it impossible for users to skip an ad. And it may just be the way some Instagram-obsessed users solve their addiction. Instagram confirmed to ...

As Meta moves to prioritize Reels across its flagship social platforms, data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower shows that the majority of ads are now appearing on the vertical short-form ...

Instagram has introduced “Ad Breaks,” unskippable ads that interrupt users’ browsing sessions. The feature appears to be in a testing phase, but negative feedback is already widespread on social media ...

Two months after announcing that it was beginning to test ads in search results, Instagram said today that it now allows for ads in search results via the Instagram Marketing API. These ads will show ...

With 40% of people using creator recommendations on Instagram when shopping, according to Meta, the platform is expanding its Partnership Ads feature with “Testimonials” – a way for creators to ...