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Sociable: Threads ads expand to all Meta advertisers

MoneyMindHub April 29, 2025
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“Sociable” is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. 

After launching an initial test of ads on Threads back in January, which was only available to selected brands in the U.S. and Japan, Meta is now expanding Threads ads to all advertisers globally, providing another consideration for marketers’ social media promotion efforts.

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Courtesy of Meta

 

As explained by Meta:

“People come to Meta’s apps for a personalized experience that helps them discover businesses and content they love, and ads are an essential part of enabling this.”

Yeah, I’m not sure that everybody would agree, but it sure is a positive spin on promotions in its apps.

“To help people deepen connections with businesses they love, we are expanding ads in Threads to all eligible advertisers globally, as well as access to inventory filter. This new placement – Threads feed – will be on by default for new campaigns using either Advantage+ or Manual Placements. Advertisers have the option to opt out of Threads feed via Manual Placements.”

Meta’s inventory filter gives advertisers three levels of optional control over where their ads are placed:

  • Expanded inventory: Show ads adjacent to content that adheres to our Content Monetization Policies so you get the most reach.
  • Moderate inventory: Exclude highly sensitive content. This lowers your reach and may increase costs.
  • Limited inventory: Exclude additional sensitive content and live videos. This lowers reach and can increase costs.

So now, Meta is confident that it can identify these same concerns on Threads as well, offering additional ad placement control in the app.

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Threads ads will be delivered in select markets at launch, and will be rolled out to additional markets over time. So if you’re not seeing ads in your Threads feed yet, you will be soon, pushing more promotions in front of your face as you scroll through the stream.

Threads ad example

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Retrieved from Meta on January 25, 2025

 

Which will no doubt spur criticism from some, and could spark a new spate of sign-ups to Bluesky in revolt.

But then again, that didn’t happen in January, when Threads ads were first implemented.

x vs threads vs bluesky

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Andrew Hutchinson/Social Media Today, data from Social Media Today

 

As you can see in this comparison, Bluesky’s monthly user count has flattened out of late, after seeing a big surge late last year. At one time, it did seem like Bluesky was on track to become a more significant player, and that users may have had enough of the big corporate platforms dominating social media apps. But despite overall angst about billionaires dictating what’s allowed in such apps, people are still gathering where the audience is, making it very difficult for challengers to break into the space.

I doubt that the implementation of ads on Threads will change this, especially because Meta will start slow, then gradually increase its ad load over time. So, eventually, users will be used to skimming over ads that are of no interest, while Meta will rack up more money from expanded placements.

And really, we all knew that ads were coming to Threads, sooner rather than later. And while Meta did initially suggest that it wouldn’t implement ads in the app till Threads reached one billion users, it’s seemingly now decided that 32% of that goal is more than enough for a full ad blitz.

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I mean, all of those additional AI servers aren’t going to pay for themselves, right?

So will they perform and be worthy of investment?

As always, it depends. It depends on a marketer’s audience and where they engage. It also depends on the broader community engagement around marketer’s niche and the decision-makers that it needs to get in front of.

Eventually, Threads may be able to offer more conversational placement options for more relevant ad targeting, and that could be a significant enhancement. But right now, it’ll be a “test and see” approach to these new options.

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