Tag: Instagram

It’s indeed hard to believe that ONE man sitting at Menlo Park, oversees how nearly a third of the world’s population interacts with each other in the online space.Incredible- isn’t t?Together, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, have more than 2.6 billion users. And three of those are among the world’s largest messaging networks. Mark Zuckerberg, the man who...

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far. Over a decade ago, a term called ‘photo addiction’ never existed. The era of smartphones with better camera opened the gates for this new idea. Seizing the opportunity of the new found market Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom launched Instagram on October 6, 2010. Within hours...

Miriam Kramer, the popular author at one of the world's most popular news websites Mashable, gave a precious piece of advice to the world this earlier this year, urging smartphone users to delete the Facebook app from their phones.Miriam pointed out that the mindless scrolling through the random updates posted by her mom's friends and the people whom she...

Instagram is working on a new account type specially designed for the influencers. The creator-specific account type will allow the users to have access to the new features Instagram is reportedly working on. These features will help users to have a more in-depth understanding of their influence, followers and post popularity.In 2016, Instagram had introduced a business profile to...

It's been a series of executive departures for Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) now and the latest one to join the wave are Instagram co-founders!In consonance with revelations by The New York Times, as a result of fueling tensions now and then, the Chief Executive Founders of Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are leaving Facebook. This comes in the...

 The above DGraph represents the top 10 most followed people on Instagram as of 2018, worldwide. The ranking is sorted by the number of followers. Interestingly, after Instagram's own account, Selena Gomez is the most-followed person on Instagram, with 142 million followers.Instagram, a photo and video sharing app, has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, worldwide. The mobile-only photo...

YouTube has always been the go-to platform for all the online videos, for a very long time now. However, with the rapid technological advancement, the video streaming services have evolved to a very great extent. Today, there are a lot of options available for the users, in case they wish to kill their time through watching online videos. Instagram...

First things first; Instagram is hacked!Millions of Instagram users across the world are suspecting about the possible hack of their Instagram account, possibly the result of so-called spam bot attack. In the last few hours, the number of complaints is rising as people are not able to log in again into their accounts after been logged out unintentionally. The situation...

A pivot for millions of envy-inducing snaps, Instagram has emerged as the titan of social media. The unprecedented growth is translating in the valuation of Instagram as well. With its box full assortment of memes, gifs, this photo-sharing platform would have celebrated its rococo worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company.Instagram recently reached a billion...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is losing teens to Youtube, Snapchat and Instagram. This fact is, by all means, true according to recent research conducted by Pew Research Center.Facebook, launched by Mark Zuckerberg in a small dorm about 14 years from now, has been at a real quick-propel towards achieving global domination over other social media platforms. However, the survey done by...

Video consumption on mobile is an all-time high. It is helping to drive the social engagement better than anything else besides garnering more comments and more likes. Probably that’s the reason all social media giants are trying hard to capture more eyeballs. After YouTube and Facebook, it's Instagram - offers users to share photos as well as hasty glimpses of...

As first spotted in TechCrunch reports, the widely used Picture-sharing app, Instagram added an in-app payment feature to its app. In quite a furtive manner, Instagram launched this feature which is currently available for some users. Although this roll-out has been much anticipated, it comes out in its testing-phase only.Instagram in-app payments feature will let you register a debit...

The latest data from eMarketer emphasizes what many of already know; Google and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) are the kings of the US digital ad industry. Together, the two tech giants will account for 63.1% of the investment in digital ad industry in the US in 2017.Despite the competition from new entrants in the market, along with old-time rivals, both...

The exploded popularity of Instagram, especially among teens, has caught the eyeballs of content marketers. In the last four years, the number of Instagram users has gone up by seven folds. Brands are actively campaigning on Instagram to lure a sizable share of 700 million Instagram users worldwide. At the time when Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn are evolving as...

Social Media advertising is growing at a tremendous rate as brands have been spending more fortunes on digital ads with each passing year. In few of the developed markets, such as US, Digital ad spends is expected to surpass the TV Ad spends by the end of 2016, led by social media advertising with 21.3% share of the total amount. With...

The leading photo and video sharing app, Instagram has joined the elite league of social media apps like Facebook, WeChat, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Recently, the five and a half years old company surpassed 500 million monthly active users. The company also revealed that over 300 million users use the app daily.Interestingly, only 100 million of the monthly active...