Should you focus on Instagram?

Here you have a few numbers about Instagram taken form Wordstream[1]

This stats should be enough to tell you if Instagram is what you need.

Instagram Demographic Statistics

1. 80% of Instagram users are outside of the US.

2. Most Instagram users are between 18-29 years old. [2]

3. Six in ten online adults have Instagram accounts.

4. Female internet users are more likely to use Instagram than men, at 38% vs. 26%. [3]

5. 32% of teenagers consider Instagram to be the most important social network.[4]

6. 32% of Instagram users attended college.[5]

7. 26% of Instagram users make more than $75,000 per year.

Instagram Usage Statistics

1. After Instagram itself, Selena Gomez has the most followers with 117 million. Cristiano Ronaldo has 97 million and National Geographic has 75 million.

2. Beyonce holds the record for the most liked Instagram with her pregnancy announcement which garnered almost 11 million likes.

3. There are over 600 million Instagrammers . [6]

4. Of that 600 million, 400 million are active every day. [7]

5. There are 16,600,000 Google searches for "instagram" per month.

6. There are 165,000 searches per month for "kylie jenner instagram"

7. 51% of Instagram users access the platform daily, and 35% say they look at the platform several times per day.

8. 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram per day.

9. Over 40 billion photos and videos have been shared on the Instagram platform since its conception.

Instagram Business Statistics

1. There are 8 million registered businesses using Instagram business profiles.

2. Instagram has 1 million monthly active advertisers —up from just 200,000 in March 2016. [8]

3. 60% of the top brands on Instagram use the same filter for every post. [9]

4. In March 2017, over 120 million Instagrammers visited a website, got directions, called, emailed, or direct messaged to learn about a business based on an Instagram ad . [10]

5. Instagram is estimated to have brought in $1.53 billion in global mobile ad revenue in 2016, which is a 144 percent increase year-over-year and would amount to 8.4 percent of Facebook’s global mobile ad revenue according to International Business Times . [11]

6. eMarketer projects that Instagram’s global mobile ad revenues will reach $2.81 billion this year, accounting for over 10 percent of parent company Facebook’s global ad revenues. [12]

7. This year, 70.7% of U.S. companies will use Instagram for marketing, edging out Twitter for the first time.

8. 50% of Instagram users follow at least one business. [13]

9. 60% of users say that they have learned about a product or service on the platform.Last updated: Apr 20, 2017

Instagram Content Statistics

1. 100 million users use the “stories” feature daily . [14]

2. Instagram posts with at least one hashtag average 12.6% more engagement than those without. [15]

3. The best time to post on Instagram for the most engagement is at 5 PM on Wednesdays.

4. As of December 2016, there were over 282 million selfies on Instagram.

5. The most used emoji is the heart <3

6. 23.4% of Instagrammers report having been cyberbullied on the platform.

7. Pizza is the most widely Instagrammed food , directly ahead of steak and sushi. [16]

8. The most popular filters are Clarendon, Gingham and Juno/Lark. [17]

I hope this information has been valuable, one more thing I’d like to add is that Instagram changes very often, and it’s not easy to keep up with it.

At Avenik we help individuals and business alike to stay up to date.