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Instagram will start to serve Ads to its 150 million users within the next year

Apps, Internet & Software, Social MediaFebruary 1, 20200Comments

Instagram has confirmed to WSJ that it will start to implement Ads into its service that is currently being used by over 150 million people every month. Instagram launched back in 2010 and was acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $5 billion dollars and since then over 50 million new users have joined the service and…

Instagram announces new feature called Instagram Direct

Apps, Mobile, Social MediaDecember 15, 20190Comments

At a press event in New York, Kevin Systrom the founder of Instagram announced that his photo sharing service was introducing private photo sharing and messaging. The new feature is being called Instagram Direct.The new feature marks a new phase for the company. Now users who follow each other will be able to send each other…

Instagram acquires Luma a video sharing App

Apps, Internet & Software, Social Media, Tech NewsNovember 13, 20190Comments

Instagram has just made its first acquisition, Luma. Luma is a video stabilization and sharing App. Sources have told TechCrunch that Luma is in fact already in use in the Instagram App, the stabilization function for example was integrated in June and could possibly be Luma's technology. Facebook has officially confirmed that Instagram has acquired Luma…

VSCO Cam becomes a Social Network now lets you follow friends

Apps, Internet & Software, Mobile, Social MediaOctober 22, 20190Comments

Photo editing app VSCO Cam has been updated for Android adding several new features that show that big changes are coming to the already immensely popular app. In version 3.0 of the app you can now share your photos and follow other people making it a true social network.If you click on the new "Grid" option you…

A first look at Ads on Instagram

Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Social MediaSeptember 27, 20190Comments

The Popular picture sharing social network Instagram announced several months back it was working on implementing ads into its social network, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012. Today the company showed the world in a blog post how these ads will be implemented.A sponsored post containing an ad looks essentially the same as a…

Instagram now has more mobile users then Twitter

Internet & Software, Online Marketing, Social MediaNovember 12, 20180Comments

Instagram, the popular photo sharing social network owned by Facebook now has more mobile users in the United States then Twitter according to a new report from EMarketer.Twitter first launched in 2006 and has more then 240 million users of which 30.8 of them are on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, on the…

Why the Instagram’s new Hyperlapse app isn’t available on Android

Apple, Apps, Google, MobileJune 1, 20180Comments

Instagram recently launched a new app called Hyperlapse on iOS one that has been receiving a lot of media attention and has been described as a "must have app" on every iOS device. If you don't own an iPhone and have an Android smartphone instead you might have noticed that the app isn't currently available…