00:18
Instagram is Testing Unskippable Ads
In a move almost certain to anger users, Instagram is reportedly testing a feature that makes ads "unskippable."
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16:00
No, Landscape Photography Has Not ‘Gone Off the Deep End’
Next to portraiture, landscape photography is among the oldest genres. It has gone through evolutions, and thanks to pioneers like Ansel Adams, landscape photography even helped bring photography into the larger art discussion.
23:10
Meta to Hand Over Data for Third-Party Research on ‘Well-Being’
In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study. [Read More]
19:07
5 Ways Smartphone Photography is Changing How We See the World
Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost 90% of Aussies own one, and we spend an average of 5. 6 hours using them each day.
18:26
Newgrain iOS App Aims to be the Digital Home of Analog Photography
Analog photography remains extremely compelling to many shooters, carving out a relatively small but passionate niche in the photo space. Alongside the resurgence in film photography in recent years, digital platforms have become increasingly crucial for photographers at large. [Read More]
19:02
Influencers Ruin Beauty Spot Photographers Have Used for Decades
Residents of a picturesque town in Vermont have shut down roads in a bid to stop an influx of social media influencers coming to take photos -- despite photographers shooting the location for "decades." [Read More]
18:54
Meta’s Trusted Partner Program is Failing Miserably: Report
A new study by Internews shows that Meta's Trusted Partner program is coming up woefully short in its mission to protect people. [Read More]
20:41
MGM Casinos Entice Younger Gamblers With New Photo Policy
Casinos have long been known for prohibiting photography, especially around gaming tables. However, in a move designed to attract younger gamblers, MGM Resorts International is implementing a new policy that allows guests to capture photos, videos, and even live streams. [Read More]
17:53
Meta Says Users Spent 24% More Time on Instagram Because of Reels
Meta says users are spending over 24% more time on Instagram because of its TikTok-clone, Reels.
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23:52
Meta’s New AI Can ‘Cut Out’ Objects in Photos and Video Instantly
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has demonstrated a new artificial intelligence-powered (AI) model that can "cut out" any object in any image or video with a single click.
23:00
France Proposes Jail for Influencers Who Don’t Disclose Photoshop
There's no shortage of studies focused on understanding the effects of social media use on people, especially adolescents. Apps like Instagram may perpetuate damaging myths about physical appearance and lead people to suffer debilitating mental health conditions, low self-esteem, and even seek cosmetic surgery at higher than expected rates. [Read More]
17:41
Meta is ‘Winding Down’ NFTs on Facebook and Instagram
Not even eight months after launching widespread support for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Facebook and Instagram, Meta is pulling the plug. [Read More]
21:22
Instagram Alternative 100ASA Now Offers Professional Photo Critiques
100ASA, a photo-sharing social network that is designed to be a "real" Instagram alternative, now offers the ability to get professional feedback on photos from its team of curators and critics. [Read More]
21:57
Instagram’s Expanded ‘Gifts’ System Pays Creators, But it isn’t Simple
Instagram is making its Gifts feature available to more creators in the United States. Gifts are described as a way to more easily earn money from an audience -- easy in theory, but it muddies an already confusing monetization web with Meta-owned properties. [Read More]
21:42
Pro Instagram Accounts Can Now Schedule Posts Directly Inside App
Instagram has announced that it is rolling out an in-app scheduling tool to all professional accounts.
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18:18
Instagram Outage is Telling Users Their Accounts Have Been Suspended
Instagram was down Monday morning, which would normally be bad enough. However, the outage then locked users out with the notification that their accounts had been suspended. [Read More]
22:14
Instagram May Add a ‘Nudity Protection’ Filter to Safeguard Users
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. [Read More]
17:07
AI Searches Public Cameras to Find When Instagram Photos Were Taken
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. [Read More]
21:25
Meta Enables NFT Sharing Across Both Facebook and Instagram
Meta announced today that it will allow users to post their NFTs on Instagram and Facebook from one digital wallet linked to both social networks. [Read More]
18:50
Epidemic Sound Sues Meta for ‘Rampant’ Theft of its Music Tracks
Epidemic Sound has sued Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta for storing, curating, reproducing, and distributing its music without authorization to the tune of upwards of 80,000 infractions per day. [Read More]
17:58
Instagram is Never Going Back to the Way it Was
The sunk cost fallacy is elongating photographers’ inevitable painful breakup with Instagram. It is time to stop hoping that Instagram will go back to being the one and only social media marketing tool that photographers need. [Read More]
20:35
Instagram Now Lets You Shop Inside of Chats
Instagram has added the ability to make purchases from businesses directly through chats. In the same thread, businesses will be able to confirm purchases, create payment requests and collect payment. [Read More]
17:33
Instagram to Push AMBER Alerts to Feeds in the Event of a Missing Child
Instagram has announced that it will push AMBER alerts to users' feeds to allow them to see and share notices of missing children in their area. The feature is rolling out today and will be available in 25 countries in the coming weeks. [Read More]
19:09
BeReal is a Photo-Sharing App That Limits You to One Photo Per Day
A new photo app has surged in popularity thanks to an unusual premise: it only allows users to post one photo per day and only at a randomized specific time. [Read More]
18:48
Two Separate Reports Scrutinize Facebook’s Policies and Algorithm
A new report found that Facebook was accidentally elevating harmful content for the past six months instead of suppressing it. A second report found that its internal policies may have resulted in the underreporting of photos of child abuse. [Read More]
22:24
Instagram Explains How the Return of the Chronological Feed Will Work
Instagram has announced that it has started to test the ability to switch between three different views on the app’s home screen, two of which would give users the ability to see posts in chronological order.
21:24
Lensii to Take on Instagram as a ‘Better’ Photo Sharing App
Lensii, originally an artificial intelligence-assisted photo cloud platform that looked to challenge Google Photos, has announced that it’s adding another target to its sights: Instagram. The company’s founder and CEO Sunghoon Park spoke to PetaPixel in July about the plan to assit users in organizing, sorting, searching, and choosing the best images from their collection […]
20:43
Get Hired: Harnessing the Power of Social Media and Your Archive
How can you distinguish yourself from other photographers? That’s the essential question every photographer embarking on a marketing strategy should be asking. But when it comes to a dedicated marketing strategy, there are a lot of options: email newsletters, printed promos sent via snail mail, social media posts, networking at in-person or virtual events, even […]
19:03
100ASA Photo-Sharing App Wants to Be a Real Instagram Alternative
100ASA, an online community with over 10,000 photographers globally, has launched an app that it says is designed to be a direct competitor to Instagram. This year marked a big shift for Instagram and its users after the social media giant announced it no longer intends to focus on photo-sharing and instead wants to move […]
20:37
Instagram is Replacing Swipe-Up Links in Stories with Link Stickers
Instagram is retiring the swipe-up link feature in Stories that allows users to direct their audience to external websites and will use link stickers — with additional business customization features — instead.
18:50
Instagram Now Lets You Control How Much ‘Sensitive Content’ You See
Instagram has launched what it calls “Sensitive Content Control” which will allow users to decide how much sensitive content shows up for them in Explore. The goal is to allow users to have a hand in the kind of experience they want to have on Instagram. The company has a strong statement of what is […]
21:01
Instagram Launches Tool To Help Users Keep Their Accounts Secure
Instagram has announced that it is rolling out a new way to help users secure their accounts if they have been hacked. Called “Security Checkup,” Instagram says that it will guide users through steps to keep accounts as secure as it can.
20:30
Bo Burnham’s ‘White Woman’s Instagram’ Deftly Parodies Internet Culture
Comedian Bo Burnham has released a comical yet brutally pointed one-man music show that pokes fun at the Internet culture and has received praise from fans and celebrities who find it perfectly relatable and on-the-nose.
18:52
Anyone Can Hide Likes on Facebook and Instagram Now, But It’s a Choice
Facebook today announced that after extensive testing, it is rolling out the ability to hide likes on either Facebook or Instagram. However, the original plan to hide likes by default has changed, as the social media company is not turning the feature on by default.
19:10
The Great @PetaPixel Instagram Revival (and How to Get Featured)
Instagram means different things to different photographers, whether that’s the place to search and be found for new work opportunities, the go-to spot for becoming inspired, or where to post photos and get feedback from the largest photography community on the Internet.
17:26
NASCAR Mocked for Posting ‘Contact Sheet’ of Color Photos on Ilford HP5 Film
The folks running NASCAR’s social media accounts gave photographers a good chuckle this week. In a post announcing a big victory by one of its drivers, they mocked up some “contact sheets” of positive color images that look like they were taken with Ilford HP5 Plus black and white film. Oops… The post was created […]
01:53
Dutch Court Orders Woman to Delete Photos of Her Grandchildren from Social Media
A court in the Netherlands has ordered a woman to delete all of the photos of her grandchildren that she’s posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents permission. The ruling, handed down last week, is calling into question what qualifies as “purely personal” usage in the age of social media. According to the BBC, […]
20:57
Celebface: Why Everyone Looks the Same on Instagram
In Guns, Germs, and Steel, author Jared Diamond describes two systems of invention transmission: 1) idea diffusion: imitation of an idea, and 2) blueprint copying: literal copying of an idea. Diamond uses the development of writing systems as the medium to discuss the concepts, noting that written writing systems probably only rose independently in Sumeria […]
17:58
Why Your Instagram Isn’t Growing
First off it’s not you, it’s Instagram. It comes down to a few very simple things that can be summed up in three words and two reasons: chronological order and saturation. There are so many people on Instagram, and the organic, chronological order news feed is sadly a thing of the past. These two things […]
22:24
Why Good Photos Turn Bad: Instagram and Photography ‘Groupthink’
Landscape and travel photographer James Popsys has noticed a troubling habit lately: he’s posting things “for the dopamine hit,” and he doesn’t believe he’s the only one.
21:00
Social Media Influencer Woes
I had read this story about a social media influencer who posted professional photos of her accident on Instagram along with what appeared to be a product placement. I thought it unbelievable until… it happened to me.
21:46
Algorithms Replaced Gatekeepers and Lowered the Bar on Quality
The rise of social media has had a massive impact on the art we see, consume, and interact with on a daily basis. Some of that impact was positive, some negative, but one of the most radical changes has also been one of the most detrimental: the demise of the gatekeepers. Gatekeepers were the tastemakers […]
21:29
Influencers vs Instagram: Hiding Like Counts Sparks Tears and Controversy
Instagram’s controversial experiment with hiding public like counts is only live in seven countries, but it’s already inspired some freakouts from influencers who claim the change is crippling their engagement and destroying their livelihood.
16:47
How to Grow Your Instagram in 2019
“How do I grow my Instagram?” … it’s a question I get asked often… too often. So I’m writing this article for my own selfish benefit. Rather than spend time repetitively composing a response, from now on, I can just link here when the next person asks me how they can grow their Instagram. And […]
19:03
Popular #GatesofHeaven Instagram Spot is a Faked Photo Op with a Mirror
It should come as no surprise that everything on Instagram is not as it seems. And yet, the revelation that the famed #GatesofHeaven photo op in Bali, Indonesia is a fake photo op that will cost you one or two bucks has surprised many as the news rippled across the Internet this week. The instantly […]
16:19
Instagram’s New Anti-Bullying Tools Let You Shadow Ban Rude Followers
Yesterday evening, Instagram announced two new anti-bullying features that it’s calling “two steps on a longer path” towards “leading the industry in the fight against online bullying.
23:03
The Instagram Problem: Is Instagram Altering Your Creative Vision?
UK-based photographer and YouTuber Jamie Windsor recently shared an interesting video about what he calls “The Instagram Problem for Photographers. ” Namely: that Instagram has quickly become the default method for sharing your work with the world.
17:39
Instagram is Designed to Make You Feel Bad, Madonna Says
Madonna has about 14 million followers on Instagram, so the American singer knows first-hand how powerful the photo-sharing social network is for “influencing. ” But now she’s speaking out against Instagram and the darker side of using it.
21:11
Instagram: No, We’re Not Hiding Your Photos from Your Followers
There has been a viral “chain letter” type of post that has been spreading on Instagram that warns users of the social network limiting post reach. Instagram has officially responded by saying that it does not do anything to prevent posts from showing up to all your followers. Over the past few months, Instagram users […]
17:59
Facebook is Now Fact-Checking Photos
Facebook is making it a priority these days to fight misinformation being spread on its social network, and the company has just announced that it’s now fact-checking photos and videos being shared by users.
