Instagram Now Has 800 Million Monthly, 500 Million Daily Active Users

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Instagram said Monday that it's added another 100 million monthly users. That brings the photo-sharing app to 800 million monthly active users, up from 700 million in April, according to Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions at Facebook, who spoke at an Advertising Week event in New York City. Five hundred million of those are daily active users, the company said. That means that Instagram is still ahead of rival Snap in terms of users, based on Snap's last report. Snap said in August that it had 173 million daily active users. Time spent watching video on Instagram is up more than 80 percent year over year, the company also said on Monday, and four times as many videos are being produced every day on Instagram compared with a year ago.

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[turkeydance]

it's on sale, now.

Re: InstaWhat?

[Anonymous Coward]

App for getting cannabis.

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer to stay anonymous, thank you very much.

Coward.

Can those statistics be independently verified?

[Futurepower(R)]

I've always wondered: Can those statistics be independently verified? Or could they be a dishonest advertising gimmick?

Re:

[Obfuscant]

Photos or it didn't happen.

Re:

[sd4f]

Facebook has been caught lying about their figures before. I don't think any of them are truthful about their figures, after all, they're the only ones that really know and they have a pecuniary interest with advertisers if they exaggerate (or just outright fabricate) the number of users.

Isn't Instagram just another tentacle

[mea_culpa]

of Facebook?

Most of those just upload pics of meals

[WillAffleckUW]

No, seriously.

I suppose if you care about what kinds of food people order, it might be interesting, but that's most of it.

And they don't upload pics of stuff they make at home very often, unless it's for a fancy meal.

Re:

[MinusOne]

I find that there are many more selfies than food pics, but both are easy enough to aviod

...and all looking at the same meme...

[filesiteguy]

...which was originally xposted on Reddit.

Seriously, my younger son is on Instagram all the time. In the three years he's had an account, he's posted maybe six photos. The rest of the time, he's following meme and joke posters.

I think everyone in the high school has seen teh same memes at least 50 times.

Instant

[sit1963nz]

Instant pudding was really popular too in its day too, now I can't wait for all this to turn to Custard.

Just astounding..

[Vegan Cyclist]

IG is the most craptacular app; a terrible interface, it butchers photos, is really pointless for social interaction (yet called 'social media') and is a great demonstration of how _not_ to build an app...they have all that money to actually do development, yet there it is looking like some teen assembled it. What a world..

Big whoops

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Half of these new users are Photobucket refugees looking for a new free photo sharing site to host their photos. The others have gone to Flickr, which I expect has witnessed a similar surge.

Nope

[xenobyte]

Still not on. Not on snapchat nor on instagram.