Advertisements from main manufacturers together with Verizon, Amazon, and Popeyes ran subsequent to sexually suggestive or racially offensive content material on a well-liked short-form video platform XShorts, ADWEEK has confirmed.

On the time of writing, XShorts has over one million downloads and is the highest app within the free leisure class on the Google Play retailer. It describes itself on the Play retailer as a house for “brief and scorching movies” and outranks apps like Apple TV and Disney+.

The app has a ‘Teen’ ranking, which, based on Google’s insurance policies, signifies that it’s appropriate for customers aged 13 and up.

Following outreach from ADWEEK, Google decided that XShorts violates its insurance policies and barred promoting on the app. In a press release, a Google spokesperson mentioned: “We blocked the XShorts app’s skill to monetize.”

The tech large is conducting further critiques into XShorts.

A quick scroll on Tuesday surfaced a TikTok-like video feed of almost nude girls with sexually specific captions, political humor, and racist memes—content material that, an ADWEEK investigation discovered, was being funded by main manufacturers.

On the time, banner adverts appeared beneath movies as they performed, and the platform additionally served full-screen interstitial adverts between movies. ADWEEK noticed adverts for Shell, Amazon’s Audible, Walgreens, Microsoft, and Popeyes showing on the app throughout a span of about 5 minutes. 

Further screenshots produced by a supply, who requested to stay nameless, confirmed adverts from Verizon, Starbucks, Roblox, Gatorade, Wayfair, Instacart, Sq., and others. Many of those appeared alongside extremely sexualized content material.