I've run ad campaigns for my page on Instagram before. This time, I caught a clear case of fraud.Instagram was misleading me into believing that my ads were gaining me more followers than they actually were.Whenever I went to my 'Ad tools' section and looked at the individual ad, I used to divide the ad spend by the 'total follows' for that particular ad.I was quite happy with the results - it cost me less than $0.02 per follower, as per the analytics.However, when the ads bill arrived in my inbox, and my credit card was charged, I divided the total charge by the number of followers I gained since I put out the ad, and it appears that Instagram's ad tools analytics were just...a total clusterfuck lie.Dividing the amount my card was charged by the number of followers I gained since starting the ad, it was more like $0.2 per follower (ten times the cost as shown by the ad analytics).The funny thing is the ad says I've gained almost 3 times as many followers than what is evident from how many followers I have on my page. It looks like they just make the ad analytics appear very successful so that you'll keep pumping money into the ads, whereas if you're diligent enough to actually check your follower count on your profile page, you'll see that they're totally taking you for a ride.Needless to say, I am pissed. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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