Meta will test advertisements on Threads in Japan and the US.

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As the app reaches over 300 million monthly active users, Meta Platforms (META.O) announced on Friday that it will start testing the debut of advertisements on its social networking platform Threads with a few firms in the United States and Japan.

A tiny portion of users may see picture adverts in between content articles in the Threads home feed during early testing, which begins on Friday, according to a blog post from Meta.

Businesses will be able to expand their current Meta ad campaigns to Threads, the social media behemoth added, and it claimed it will rigorously monitor the pilot before expanding it widely.

Additionally, Meta will start testing an inventory filter for Threads advertisements, which lets marketers regulate how sensitive the organic content their ads show next to thanks to AI.

The introduction of Threads advertisements a few weeks following Meta’s overhaul of its content control will cause advertisers to take notice. However, TikTok’s instability is forcing companies to look for alternatives, and Meta will not miss the chance to include Threads in the mix,” stated Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst at Emarketer.

Earlier last month, Meta discontinued its U.S. fact-checking initiative on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads—three of the largest social media sites in the world, with over 3 billion users.

Launched in July 2023 as a rival to X, previously Twitter, Threads aimed to attract users away from the de facto microblogging site amid its turbulent takeover by billionaire Elon Musk.

During an October post-earnings call, CFO Susan Li stated that Meta did not anticipate Threads to be “a substantial driver of 2025 sales.”

To strengthen the business’s position against competitors OpenAI and Google in the competition for supremacy in the field, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier on Friday that the company will invest up to $65 billion this year to enhance its AI infrastructure.

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