A journal from the Ichnos survey
Every article about advertising is written for somebody the platforms will take money from. If your category is refused, all of it — the spend advice, the creative testing, the lookalike audiences — is a description of a country you cannot enter.
This is written for the other side of that line. What the restrictions actually say, what happens when businesses try to get around them, and where 408 restricted industries can still legitimately be reached — drawn from a survey that reads the destinations rather than guessing at them.
Every figure quoted here comes from the live survey: 408 restricted industries, 70,534 places mapped, 4,277 of them confirmed open — each searched 20 separate ways, updated several times a day.
When platforms refuse diagnostic sonography and imaging, operators must look beyond automated ad buys to channels where access relies on rate cards, memberships, and clinical standing.
25 September 2026Producers of certified reference standards face immediate platform bans, but mapped industry channels provide dependable, commercial routes to laboratory buyers without algorithmic interference.
22 September 2026A survey of 440 specialist destinations shows where ammunition and reloading brands can legitimately reach buyers after platform ad bans, and what to buy first.
18 September 2026When major ad platforms refuse industrial carbon outright, petroleum coke traders must abandon automated networks and buy direct access from the small number of trade channels that publish clear terms.
15 September 2026When major advertising networks refuse the entire category of location services, customer acquisition depends on a narrow set of trade channels that can actually be bought.
11 September 2026A mapping of 386 industry spaces shows where trauma remediation specialists can actually reach referrers and clients when the major ad networks refuse them.
8 September 2026Platform bans treat licensed industrial blasting as a public safety risk, leaving commercial operators to build distribution where quarry and mining managers actually spend their time.
4 September 2026