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How to Acquire Customers with Instagram Ads in 2025

As paid marketing on Meta gets cheaper and easier to target customers, brands are getting more strategic about the content that attracts consumers at different points in their shopping journey.
Successful Instagram ads in 2025 range from campaigns that tell a brand's broader story to re-posted UGC and product-specific imagery.
Successful Instagram ads in 2025 range from campaigns that tell a brand's broader story to re-posted UGC and product-specific imagery. (BoF Collage)

Advertisers are starting to get a little more bang for their buck on Instagram.

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How AI Is Already Changing Marketing

With an array of new AI tools on hand, fashion marketers need to balance automating rote tasks and maintaining their creative vision to ensure brand integrity.

Marketing 101 for the Unpredictable Year Ahead

Despite complaints around higher prices and concern over global uncertainty, consumer spending remains relatively resilient. To reach these cautiously confident shoppers in 2025, marketers should highlight value and remain consistent, yet agile, in their brand storytelling.

About the authors
Haley Crawford
Haley Crawford

Haley Crawford is Marketing Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers the marketing and public relations industries.

Malique Morris
Malique Morris

Malique Morris is Senior E-Commerce Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. He is based in New York and covers digital-native brands and shifts in the online shopping industry.

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