Instagram's strategy to beat Snapchat at its own game seems to be working. The Facebook-owned social network centered on photos (lol, more like a cool controled CNN) has announced Last week that it has more than 600 million users. The last 100 million of those have signed up in the past six months, which is quite impressive because it took them nine months to go from 400 million to 500 million. (more…)
Get a glimpse at the world through Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s eyes — or eyewear, at least. The sisters are building their own individual empires while growing their eponymous brand together, and up next for Kendall + Kylie is a new line of sunglasses for spring. Their past clothing collections were produced as collaborations with retailers like Topshop and PacSun, but such is not the case here. “This is all us. It’s enjoyable to be able to fully create,” Kendall told WWD. (more…)
We get Linda Ikeji Social now this? Lord, land grabs in the tech market space! For a week in May, some of Instagram's designers, engineers and product managers met not at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters but at a rented house, stocked with grocery store snacks. There, away from computers and armed with pencil and paper, they explored a question important for the photo-sharing app's future: how do we get our users to shop? (more…)
The home of what our lives would have looked like if we were gods, Instagram has been redefining the fashion business world since it creation and the recent being Maki Oh, the Nigerian Fashion Designer Label. (more…)
According to a recent report from Russian news website T Journal, Instagram is testing a live video feature called ‘Go Insta!.’ This latest attribute is limited to Russian users at this time and presumably resides in the app’s Stories stratum. (more…)
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