3% Of People Share Photos Online Every Day

Sites include instagram.com . Published on May 25th, 2012. Written by Anthony West.

It doesn’t take a MBA from Harvard to figure out that photo sharing is big these days. Matter of fact, photo sharing has been big for quite a while (Yahoo acquired Flickr, remember?). What has shifted in a big way is ‘how’ photos are shared online and mobile has been a big part of that shift.

Proof of this shift can be found in Instagram, the young start-up that fueled the shift from traditional online photo sharing to the mobile platform. The app now accounts for much of the photos shared online and according to a recent study 3% of people share photos online every single day.

22% of the millions of people that share their photos take these photos ‘most times’ with their cell phones; 39% of these people take these photos ‘sometimes’ with their cell phones. These two large groups combine help to explain why Instagram has gone from 0 to 50 million users in just under 2 years. It also helps to explain why Facebook felt the need to buy the app for $1 billion.

Photo sharing is not going away, clearly. And as mobile applications become more sophisticated, the volume and frequency of sharing will only increase. Right now over 5 million photos are uploaded to Instagram daily. That figure will almost double by the time the year is out.

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