In 2014 Instagram will continue offering brands an opportunity to achieve social media success while becoming a more mature platform for marketers. I’m confident that this will be the year where more brands start to leverage Instagram and achieve success. We’ve already seen brands from boring industries leverage content marketing tools like Instagram and that trend will only continue.
Here are a few reasons why Instagram will rule in 2014.
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“Why Instagram Will Be The King Of Social Media In 2014 (And How To Leverage It)” —SteamFeed
“Quitting Wall Street To Tell A Prostitute’s Story” —NPR
Chris Arnade spent 20 years working on Wall Street, but after the financial crisis of 2008, he found himself increasingly disillusioned with his profession. So, in the summer of 2012, he quit and began walking the streets of New York, camera in hand.
Arnade was drawn to the Hunts Point neighborhood in the Bronx, known for its crime, drug trade and prostitution. There, he met Takeesha, a prostitute, outside an old monastery with a high, barbed-wire wall a block long.
Iran Temporarily Shut Down Instagram this Weekend, Then Denied it Ever Happened
#اینستاگرم فیلتر شد – #ایران #فیلترینگ
#iran @ListenToUs @HassanRouhani pic.twitter.com/NnIDry4jsf
— Soheil Gonzalez (@soheilr7) December 28, 2013
In most countries around the world, it’s taken for granted that if you’d like to share a photo of your lunch or cat (even if, just maybe, you shouldn’t) Instagram is ready and able to help you accomplish your goal. Of course, that’s not true everywhere, as the people of Iran found out yesterday. Read more…
James Franco Waxes Eloquent on ‘The Meaning of the Selfie’ —New York Times
Selfies are something new to me, but as I have become increasingly addicted to Instagram, I have been accused of posting too many of them. I was called out on the “Today” show, and have even been called the selfie king.
Maybe this is so, but only because I’ve learned that the selfie is one of the most popular ways to post — and garner the most likes from followers…
I can see which posts don’t get attention or make me lose followers: those with photos of art projects; videos telling the haters to go away (in not so many words); and photos with poems. (Warning: Post your own, and you’ll see how fast people become poetry specialists and offer critiques like “I hate you, you should die.”)
Google Maps Out the Most Photographed Places in the World
Two weeks ago, Instagram released its annual top 10 lists of the cities and locations that were photographed most often using the photo sharing service. But this year, Google has seen fit to one-up them by releasing a heat map that gives us a more visual representation of the most photographed places in the world. Read more…
Video Tries to Explain Film Photography to Modern Kids
It’s difficult to fathom, but there is massive segment of the population who remember nothing of film photography. The idea of not having your images instantly available for review and deletion, or having to go to a shop to have a roll of film developed, is as foreign as the floppy disk and the VHS.
BuzzFeed is trying to remedy this somewhat in the video above, which they have dubbed “Film Photography Explained to Modern Kids.” Read more…
Snapchat Update Includes Ability to Replay Snaps, Add Filters and More
Snapchat, famous for dealing with the problem of rising attention spans by whittling the life of a photo down to 10 seconds, has gotten a little more time-friendly with an update that includes a limited option for re-viewing images later. Read more…
Finding the Silver Lining: Why It’s Actually a Great Time to Be a Photographer
Over the years I’ve tried to get better about reflecting on my work and life at the end of each year. Sure lots of people will claim to do this, but that usually just boils down to reviewing their Facebook page for a quick ego boost.
I’m talking about going in-depth. Go pull up those photos you loved at the beginning of the year and try looking at them again with a newly critical eye, do it when you’re free of the fresh-born-photo sentimentality all photographer’s (and really artists in general) suffer from. Try to figure out what went wrong in your failed work and what went right (purposefully or accidental) in the work that turned out good. Regardless of the conclusions you arrive at I can guarantee you’ll be a better photographer as a result. Read more…
Video: Reuters Reviews the Best Photos Captured by their Staffers in 2013
Reuters’ photographers captured some incredible photographs in 2013, and now that the year is wrapping up, it’s only fitting that they compile the best of them into a Photos of the Year slideshow that will hopefully inspire you to take on your photographic goals with renewed vigor in 2014. Read more…
British Journal of Photography Focuses on Smartphone Photos With FLTR Magazine
Those who see iPhoneography as some kind of barbarian invasion may want to give their DSLRs an extra hug after hearing this: The venerable British Journal of Photography has launched a new e-magazine all about smartphone photography and available only as an iPhone app. Read more…
