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Sorry, Instagram users: ads are coming to Canadian streams

Facebook's popular Instagram photo sharing app will start running ads in Canada soon.
Facebook's popular Instagram photo sharing app will start running ads in Canada soon. Facebook's popular Instagram photo sharing app will start running ads in Canada soon.

TORONTO – Facebook’s popular Instagram photo sharing app will start running ads in Canada soon.

Some users may have already seen a message from Instagram with a head’s up that advertisements will soon be displayed in their streams.

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It was about a year ago that Instagram started sprinkling ads into user streams in the U.S., and a similar move was made in the U.K. in September.

Instagram also recently launched video ads in the U.S.

Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 in a US$1 billion deal, says it has 200 million users worldwide.

The company says it has shared more than 20 billion photos to date and averages about 60 million daily.

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