Instagram started out as a darling of the photography community, with its focus on excellent images and engaging users. Gaining almost 10,000 users in its first few hours after release, its climb into the app charts was immediate, and it has remained there ever since.

However, the company was subject to a takeover by Facebook in 2012, and since then the company has instituted a number of new policies that have increasingly made marketing and advertising a prominent feature of the platform, and engagement rates have been falling. Is Instagram making the same mistakes it once did? Watch above to find out.

2017-2-6 03:00