Discord has announced tools aimed at expanding the number and types of companies that advertise on the platform.
This week, the social media firm announced Discord Ads Manager, an ad campaign management platform that lets companies manage ads shown on Discord in one place. The tool can be used to perform forecasting, build “a campaign with objective-based bidding,” and monitor an ad campaign’s performance, according to the announcement.
“Self-service access extends Discord advertising to smaller studios and marketers that previously needed a direct sales relationship to run campaigns, opening the platform to advertisers, regardless of their budget,” Discord said.
The ads manager is currently available to select advertisers, but self-service access won’t come until “early 2027,” Discord said.
The company is also expanding Video Quests, video ads Discord users can watch to get in-game rewards. Discord has been showing these ads to browsers in a beta format, with limited testing on Discord’s mobile apps. The company announced that the ad format is now called Video Quests Reserve and will serve as “a premium, reservation-based offering designed for high-impact brand moments.” The ads will give “advertisers a scalable, always-on way to drive outcomes, such as impressions and clicks.” Discord will offer advertisers additional objectives to track “soon.”
Just what I need. Ads for games on servers not at all about games.
They also have been showing video ads occasionally to nitro subscribers, which kills any value nitro could have had.
Wow. Pay to get more ads. That’s certainly a take. I guess people really like their stickers?
I didn’t even realize there were ads on Discord now. That’s pretty disgusting. I’ve been very happy with Fluxer.
Would a pihole have any effect on ads served in this manner?
LLM assisted code warning (not that Discord isn’t at this point, lol). I have my own “discord alternative” by forking zulip and integrating jitsi meet into its ui and making voice and video calls work on the native apps. I need to get all my developer accounts in order and get the apps on the stores, but for those interested, check it out at https://consort.chat/ and the repo https://github.com/ConsortChat/ConsortStack and please please contact me if you would like any assistance getting an instance up. I’m happy to do it for free for a little bit so I can iron out any issues the software has :)
