It's the holy grail of many a marketer: an all-in-one analytics package for Instagram. Yet the promise of metric nirvana might be closer than we think; if you believe everything you read on the internet. Measure this According to a report on Later.com, Instagram is on the verge of releasing in-app analytics, which it's calling Insights.

All good things must end – something lots of users experienced on June 1 when Instagram pulled up the drawbridge and pulled integration with third party apps. Party’s over The move hasn’t exactly come out of the blue. If anything it’s significant that Facebook-owned Instagram has tolerated others in its increasingly bountiful backyard for so

If images aren't doing enough for you, Instagram's latest feature might just be the ticket. The Facebook-owned app is adding video channels to the Explore Tab, continuing their embrace of moving pictures. On a silver platter The most prominent channel will be Videos You Might Like, which uses an algorithm to present a personalised collection

Online Circle Digital has just released the Instagram Report – Australia Q1 2016. Through the analysis of 21 different industries and over 550 Australian brand and social media influencer accounts, the report ranks the largest and most engage Instagram accounts in Australia, utilising data from January 1 to March 31 2016. SMK readers can download the report

As a reader of the SMK blog, you are all now aware of the forthcoming new Instagram algorithm that will rank content based on relevance rather than chronological order. The official announcement from Instagram resulted in a sudden panic from Instagram users, with a huge amount of Instagrammers asking followers to turn on mobile notifications

Many fashionistas will be familiar with ShopStyle as a shopping search engine. However, ShopStyle also has its fingers in the social monetisation pie via their offshoot, ShopStyle Collective. And now, ShopStyle Collective is launching a new widget to help influencers rake in revenue from the images they post to Instagram. All about the $$$ ShopStyle

Video has long been hard currency on Facebook, now Instagram is getting into the game with the announcement that video views are coming soon.  Insta-view Instagram brok the news in a blog post. "In the coming weeks, we’re rolling out video views on Instagram. As a widely expected industry metric for video, we believe video

While their work is vital in keeping us Liking and tweeting, software engineers don’t often make headlines in social. Bucking that trend is a recent post from Instagram, explaining how a tweak from their tech heads led to a better experience for the rest of us. Smooth sailing Until recently Instagram would send up to 20 comments