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A new era has begun in the kingdom of photo filters and hashtags. Instagram has recently served users in the US its first ad ever, and (as par for the course for a change this big) not everyone’s happy. The unlucky guinea pig getting all the hate is fashion designer Michael Kors, who featured one Continue Reading →

Instagram on Thursday revealed how ads will look like on the social network when they finally come to the photo-sharing app. The Facebook-owned company is treading carefully and says it will gently introduce users to the concept by posting a one-time sample ad for its US-based users “within the coming week.” Earlier this month, Instagram Continue Reading →

Among all the sneakers, dresses, paintings, and dogs being filtered and sold through ad-hoc negotiations on Instagram, there is one outlier: guns. A simple search on the increasingly popular photography app, which Facebook bought in April 2012 for $1 billion, reveals a web of semi-anonymous private and professional dealers who are advertising, negotiating, and selling Continue Reading →

During Nokia’s Lumia tablet and smartphone event in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom revealed the app most Windows Phone users have been eagerly waiting for is finally coming. When? An exact date wasn’t given; all we know is Instagram will arrive in the “coming weeks,” so it’s safe to say Continue Reading →

Stop! Close that Instagram app, put your phone down and step away from your dinner! We’ve become obsessed with photographing every meal, but a new study says that food photos on Instagram ruin the enjoyment of food for everyone at the table. Two researchers at Brigham Young University had 232 people look at and rate Continue Reading →

Instagram announced earlier this month that it will begin serving in-feed advertising before the end of the year, and the Facebook-owned photo and video app has made a subtle, but important, change after it removed the option to switch off autoplay for videos on iOS. (The Android app retains an option to disable autoplay entirely, Continue Reading →

The time has finally come; Instagram users will soon start to see advertisements in their feeds. The company recently announced that users in the United States will start to see video and image ads over the next couple of months from brands they don’t follow. Instagram knows people aren’t going to be happy about this, Continue Reading →

Close your Foodspotting app and put your phone down. Marketing professors have confirmed what many of our dining companions say all the time: Instagramming dinner ruins the meal. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Psychology says over-exposure to food photos on Instagram ruins enjoyment of food for everyone at the table. Participating in Continue Reading →

Well here it is, Instagram is getting ads and it’s starting with users in the US. In a blog post on Thursday, Instagram says that users in the country are going to start seeing video and image ads. Instagram says that the ads will start appearing over the next couple of months and will come Continue Reading →

Facebook is acknowledging that most smartphone owners want a broader view of the social-networking universe, not just a window to planet Facebook. Starting Thursday, the company is incorporating Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram content into the Facebook Home lock screen experience, marking the biggest modification since a dramatic shift in strategy that came after its Continue Reading →