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The same analytics experts who report on Instagram’s success are now predicting that Instagram’s dominance of Instagram’s dominance will continue to dominate.
In April 2018, Instagram announced that over 1 billion people use the app daily. This statistic has skyrocketed over the past two years when Facebook developed Facebook Watch, the Facebook video hosting site. The number of Instagram users has nearly doubled, from 600 million in April 2017 to almost 1 billion in July 2018.
But what is the real value of Instagram? This June 2018 Wired magazine article claims Instagram is the most effective marketing platform on the planet.
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“According to analytics company SimilarWeb, Instagram is used by 31% of all smartphone users worldwide. Compare that to Snapchat, which is used by just 12% of all smartphone users worldwide. Even WhatsApp is slightly more popular – 33%. This means that one in three smartphone users use Instagram on a daily basis.”
Wired goes on to describe how Instagram and Facebook share information about each other’s users and how Facebook’s business model encourages users to share as much information as possible. maybe on instagram.
For Instagram to continue its dominance in the future, the site will need to avoid copycat apps, argues the same Wired article.
“Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, said in 2016 that he wants the “calculation” of the system to attract more people to the network. What calculus does is turn it into a market. At least for now, only the most loyal users are around.”
So, who is constantly watching Instagram stories? The Anonymous and Free Digital Story Analysis project looked at the top 50 accounts in the UK. In the week of January 28, the team found that this group was averaging 3.3 million views per day on Instagram.
