Instagram is close to launching a new feature that allows users to make purchases from within the app. Shopaholics Shoppable product tags allow brands to tag up to five items in their Instagram posts. Clicking on the tag will direct users to a unique product page with detailed information about the item – and a […]

Never one to be left behind, Instagram is reportedly testing a live streaming feature. Keeping up with the Joneses Certain Android users have spotted a large red button at the bottom of the screen reading "Go Insta!". This leads to the beta Live streaming feature, which embeds the stream via Instagram Stories. Feather in the

Instagram now has an app that works on all devices that run Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. Windows covered As announced on the official Instagram blog, Windows 10 tablet users—yes, they do exist—can now capture, edit and share photo and video through Instagram directly on their device. Apple in the cold The visual content social

In this instalment of SMK Explores, we’re going to take a look at Instagram Stories. We’ll tell you how to use it, and why you should care about it. What are Instagram Stories? Instgram ‘Stories’ is a fairly blatant rip-off of Snapchat’s ‘My Story’ feature. It allows a user to create a narrative using multiple

Instagram may have released Business Profiles relatively recently, but users can't seem to get enough of retailers using 'Gram. Retail therapy Instagram has blogged about the finding of a study by Oracle Data Cloud's Datalogix, which revealed Instagram drove a median of 1.8% lift in in-store sales, and a median 2.1% lift in household penetration.

Instagram Stories might look, feel, and operate in a very similar manner to Snapchat, but that hasn't stopped users from flocking to it like digital ducks to water. 100 million A few months after launch, Instagram Stories now has 100 million daily active viewers. To put this in context, that's almost as many as Snapchat's

Instagram has just passed another milestone: it now boasts over 500,000 advertisers. Half a mil Instagram announced the news in a blog post, adding that the half million figure has doubled in just six months. It also revealed that the top five countries using Instagram for advertising are the US, Australia, UK, Brazil, and Canada.

Oscar Wilde once mused that fashion is such a fickle enterprise, it needs to be reinvented every six months. That may be so, but it doesn’t stop Instagram from being the fashionista’s favourite, according to new research from Facebook. Strike a #Pose Ahead of London and Paris Fashion Weeks, Facebook has released a report into