Delivery controls
Geo-targeting
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Why does geo-targeting matter to a buyer?
Country beats every adjective in the catalogue for price impact. Instagram story views go from $0.08 worldwide to $24.50 for USA or EU targeting, roughly 300×; Facebook shares go from $0.85 worldwide to $16.50 for USA, roughly 19× (PanelCompare domain research, 2026-09-06). If a listing is dramatically more expensive than its neighbours, geo is usually why.
It is also the most credible form of targeting on offer, because country can be inferred reasonably well from the accounts a provider holds, whereas gender and interest usually cannot. The revealing exception is YouTube shares, where one panel charges the same $0.145 for worldwide, Arab Gulf, US and UK delivery — which tells you how little the accounts matter for that metric.
How does geo-targeting show up in a price list?
Geo appears in the service name — “Instagram Followers [USA] [Real]” — rather than as a structured field, and in the API only web-traffic order types take an explicit country parameter.
Because it is name-encoded, a comparison index has to parse it out before prices are comparable at all: a worldwide row and a USA row of the same metric are different products sharing a category.
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