Instagram Head Says Reach of Reels and Photos Has Been ‘Rebalanced’
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says that Reels and photos should have the same reach on the app now after the company "rebalanced things" in the last month.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says that Reels and photos should have the same reach on the app now after the company "rebalanced things" in the last month.
Meta has revealed that Instagram now has two billion monthly active users worldwide, closing in on the 2.96 billion who use Facebook.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, continued its free fall in 2022. The company had more than $65 billion wiped off its market value after it reported another quarter of declining revenues.
President Joe Biden used photo-sharing app, BeReal to encourage people to get their annual vaccines in before flu and covid season.
Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. However, a San Francisco federal judge has given the photographer permission to file a new complaint.
Photo-sharing app BeReal has secured $60 million in funding, pushing its valuation to just under $587 million.
A wedding photographer has shared how her clients are increasingly requesting blurry photos of their big day.
Miley Cyrus has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit a month after she was sued for posting an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.
Instagram has upgraded features on its app to protect users from abuse and help them block the accounts of trolls on the social media platform.
Instagram is testing a handy new feature that will let users schedule posts on the app.
Cue the MySpace flashbacks because Instagram is testing a feature that would bring songs to profiles.
It seems like Instagram is not done pushing its TikTok-clone Reels on everyone. The app is working on new "Achievement" badges to incentivize creators to make Reels.
BeReal has soared to over 53 million downloads but only nine percent of users open the app daily, new data claims.
Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter have all been chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video for some time now. But while its competitors focus on short-form video, TikTok has made the unexpected pivot to photography.
Watch out Instagram, TikTok is coming. The wildly popular short video app has announced a new Photo Mode that looks strikingly similar to what's on offer from Meta's photo-sharing app.
As Meta is struggling to revive its falling revenue in order to reverse its downward financial spiral, it is adding new ways for advertisers to clutter up your feeds. Specifically, the Explore feed and grids are about to start getting ads.
What’s old is new again, it seems. Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that lets users... share status updates.
It doesn't look good for Meta as the company is trading at its lowest stock value since 2019, advertisers are dropping spending, and users are leaving its platforms.
A coroner's office has ruled that social media was a factor in the death of a 14-year-old British schoolgirl.
Twitter is expanding video support on its platform including a new "immersive" media viewer that looks a lot like Instagram Reels, which of course is just a copy of TikTok.
Meta has cracked down on The OG App with the Instagram imitator being pulled from the iOS store just one day after its launch.
Instagram has received a lot of criticism in the last few months. The app's video-centric changes to compete with TikTok as well the constant suggested posts and advertisements have left many users frustrated. But a new app is trying to fix everything users hate about Instagram and return the app back to what it once was.
Meta is testing two features that will integrate Facebook and Instagram more closely together and let users switch between accounts on both platforms via a new profile switching tool.
Instagram has rolled out a new feature globally that will allow users to upload longer, uninterrupted Stories of up to 60 seconds continuously without being broken up.
Photography and filmmaking wasn’t always a part of Kane Andrade’s career path. The San Francisco Bay Area native and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador originally was interested in animation before joining the military. That military experience would wound up changing the course of his life and ignited the flame that inspired him to tell the seldom heard stories of those within his community.
Instagram appears to be testing a new feature that would cover photos that may contain nudity in Direct Messages and safeguard users from unwanted content exposure.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri has told staff that the app is falling far behind TikTok and YouTube in all aspects of creator satisfaction.
BeReal is considering adding paid features to the app in a bid to avoid Instagram-style advertising.
Snapchat is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to all users worldwide.
TikTok has become the latest app to launch a dual camera feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal.
Dries Depoorter has created an artificial intelligence (AI) software that searches public camera feeds against Instagram posts to find the moment that a photo was taken.
Instagram's bet on Reels as a way to take on TikTok isn't paying off well according to internal documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Reels have less than one-tenth of the engagement of TikTok videos, and that number is falling.
Singer Miley Cyrus is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit after she posted an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.
Reality TV star Bethenny Frankel has revealed how "deceptive" editing and filters can be, by posting a Photoshopped image of herself in a bikini on Instagram.
Instagram will be testing a "repost" feature that would allow users to share other people's posts in their own feeds.
With BeReal's meteoric rise this year, photographers have been wondering whether there is any future potential in the app as a social media platform to promote their work.
An Indian teenager shooting an Instagram Reel was hit by a train. The horrifying incident was caught on camera, and although the boy received series injuries, he miraculously survived the accident.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has been fined a record $402 million for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri admits that the company had "gone too far into video" and insists "photographers are all still relevant" on the app.
Meta is adding more paid features to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in a bid to recoup declining advertising revenue.