Friday, December 21, 2012

Social advertisers spooked by Instagram backlash

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Tuesday night, John Bell had to convince his wife not to quit Instagram. At the beginning of the week, she'd been a die-hard user but, like many others, recent changes in the Terms of Service had convinced her it was time to give it up. The awkward part: he’s the global marketing manager of social@ogilvy, the new-media wing of legendary ad firm Ogilvy & Mather. In short, he's one of the guys who's bringing ads to Instagram.


"I told her, 'You're overreacting!'" Bell relayed to The Verge. "But then, we're all overreacting."


"It just goes against everything we know about the web."


As the ad industry responds to new concerns over how Instagram might leverage user's photographs, it's a common scene. "I actually found out about this...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/21/3788068/instagram-TOS-backlash-surprises-marketers

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