Instagram will soon roll out a new feature globally that will allow everyone on Instagram to perform a "Recommendations reset," which makes the algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you and start from scratch. [Read More]
In a move almost certain to anger users, Instagram is reportedly testing a feature that makes ads "unskippable."
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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.
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
Meta says users are spending over 24% more time on Instagram because of its TikTok-clone, Reels.
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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.
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]
Not even eight months after launching widespread support for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Facebook and Instagram, Meta is pulling the plug. [Read More]
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]
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]
Instagram has announced that it is rolling out an in-app scheduling tool to all professional accounts.
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
“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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person. [Read More]
Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI.
After saying it was evaluating adjusting its policy last week, Meta today announced that it is making changes to how it handles what it calls "manipulated media" going forward, adjusting the "Made with AI" label that appears on Instagram to "AI Info" instead. [Read More]
Instagram revealed the top trends that Generation Z users will be driving on the photo app in 2024.
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TechCrunch describes the social media photo-sharing app Daylyy as the "anti-Instagram."
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The social media landscape is one of constant catch-up and copying. Like Instagram and TikTok have long offered to users, people can now embed content from Snapchat on external websites. [Read More]
A new social media app called BeFake AI wants to take a legitimate approach to self-expression by using a phone’s cameras and photos to produce AI-assisted creative images. [Read More]
Picsart -- one of the most popular mobile photo editors and graphic design tools -- has announced Spaces, a new in-app community designed to encourage creative connection and collaboration. [Read More]
A new report by The Guardian reveals Facebook and Instagram have become marketplaces for child sex trafficking and parent company Meta is struggling to take sufficient action to prevent criminals from using its platforms. [Read More]
Kevin Systrom, one of Instagram's co-founders, says that the app has lost its "soul" and what used to be a place to connect with friends and family has become overly focused on turning into a business tool for creators and brands. [Read More]
With artificial intelligence-powered "photos" winning competitions and fake portraits garnering thousands of fans, we are well past the point where we should be worried.
A popular "photographer" who has amassed almost 30,000 followers on Instagram has admitted that his portraits are actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI). [Read More]
Instagram is poised to remove the shopping tab from Instagram's navigation pane in a shift back towards content creation.
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A report by the Wall Street Journal has claimed that Meta fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year who allegedly hijacked accounts and in some cases demanded bribes. [Read More]
After a disastrous earnings report, Meta’s plans involve doing more of the same. In this case, by leaning further into NFTs and letting creators mint their own on Instagram. [Read More]
There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year.
Meta’s independent Oversight Board says the company can’t start rolling back its efforts to remove misinformation, especially when it comes to Covid misinformation. [Read More]
Instagram alternative 100ASA has launched its long-awaited iOS app, further enhancing 100ASA's competitive viability as a social media platform for passionate photographers. [Read More]
Instagram has added a new feature called a "collaborative collection" which allows users to save posts in a shared space with family or friends. [Read More]
The retro iPhone camera app and one-time Instagram rival Hipstamatic is making its return to Apple's App Store today.
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Meta has announced a new open-source content moderation tool that allows platforms to identify and remove a range of "violating content" at scale, including terrorism, child exploitation, and other types of abuse. [Read More]
Social media users could use artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfakes faces to hide their identity in other people's photos. [Read More]
In the process of chasing that magical number one on social media, artists are unfortunately losing the ability to do their craft and no longer focusing on the only thing that will actually shape the next generation of artists. [Read More]
Meta has dissolved the Responsible Innovation Team, an internal group whose job it was to address "potential harms to society" that would be caused by Facebook and its products. [Read More]
Instagram has announced four updates to the platform that are rolling out to users today: Reels can be up to 90 seconds long, audio can be imported to Reels, stickers can be added to Reels, and users can now pin content to their profile grid. [Read More]