Dumb Dog Team at the 2019 Festival de Cannes Red Carpet
Cannes Film Festival – Red Carpet movie premiere. Paparazzi and large crowds to see the stars… Note all the ladders for the paparazzi, they secure their location to use later for the events.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Thursday, May 16, 2019
WHAT IS METACRITIC? (In the Entertainment industry.)
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WHAT IS METACRITIC? (In the
Entertainment industry.)
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WHAT IS METACRITIC?
How does Metacritic work?
Find the critics' consensus in one place, with a
single “Metascore”. Metacritic's proprietary Metascore distills the opinions of
the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single number.
Compare what's new this week, what's great this year,
and all-time favorites—finding quality entertainment is easy with the
Metacritic scorecard.
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of
media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly,
books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted
average). The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its
source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics'
recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's
"premier" review aggregator.
Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a
percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site
decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the
scores are weighted according to the critic's fame, stature, and volume of
reviews.
History
It began as a simple idea back in the summer of 1999:
a single score could summarize the many entertainment reviews available for a
movie or a video game. Metacritic's three founding members—all former attorneys
who were happy to find a more constructive but less profitable use of their
time—launched the site in January 2001 and Metacritic has evolved over the last
decade to reflect their experience distilling many critics' voices into the
single Metascore, a weighted average of the most respected critics writing
reviews online and in print.
Metacritic's mission is to help consumers make an
informed decision about how to spend their time and money on entertainment. We
believe that multiple opinions are better than one, user voices can be as
important as critics, and opinions must be scored to be easy to use.
Metacritic was launched in January 2001 by Marc
Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of
Southern California law school, Jason Dietz, after two years of developing the
site. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts
and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold
Metacritic to CNET in 2005. CNET and Metacritic were later acquired by the CBS
Corporation.
In August 2010, the website's appearance was
revamped. In June 2018, the website introduced the 'Metacritic: Must-See' label
for films that attain scores of 81% or more, with at least 15 professional
reviews for the given film. In September 2018, it added the 'Metacritic:
Must-Play' certification for video games attaining a score of 90% or more, and
a minimum number of 15 reviews from industry professionals.
Metascores
Scores are weighted averages. Certain publications
are given more significance "because of their stature". Metacritic
has said that it will not reveal the relative weight assigned to each reviewer.
Games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith
Stuart of The Guardian to "get a look behind the metascoring process".
Stuart wrote: "The metascore phenomenon, namely Metacritic and
GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games
journalism over the past few years". Doyle said that because video games
lead to a greater investment of time and money, gamers are more informed about
reviews than are fans of film or music; they want to know "whether that
hotly anticipated title is going to deliver".
Sources, References & Credits: Google, Wikipedia, Wikihow, WikiBooks,
Pinterest, IMDB, Linked In, Indie Wire, Film Making Stuff, Hiive, Film Daily, New
York Film Academy, The Balance, Careers Hub, The Numbers, Film Maker, TV Guide
Magazine, Blurb, Media Match, Quora, Creative Skill Set, Chron, Investopedia,
Variety, No Film School, WGA, BBC, Daily Variety, The Film Agency, Best Sample
Resume, How Stuff Works, Studio Binder, Career Trend, Producer's Code of
Credits, Truity, Production Hub, Producers Guild of America, Film Connection, Variety,
Wolf Crow, Get In Media, Production Beast, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, UCAS, Frankenbite,
Realty 101, Careers Hub, Screen Play Scripts, Elements of Cinema, Script
Doctor, ASCAP, Film Independent, Any Possibility, CTLsites, NYFA, Future Learn,
VOM Productions, Mad Studios, DP School, DGA, IATSE, ASC, MPAA, HFPA, MPSE,
CDG, AFI, Box Office Mojo, Rotten Tomatoes, The Numbers, Netflix, Vimeo,
Instagram, Pinterest, Metacritic,
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Our Executive Producer Sherri Rowe in LA preparing for Cannes Film Festival…
Our Executive Producer Sherri Rowe in LA preparing for Cannes Film Festival…
Monday, May 13, 2019
Christmas with the Zombies...He made it to the bell tower!
Christmas with the Zombies...He made it to the bell tower!
LETHA MALAN OELZ IS AVAILABLE TO HOST KAAPSE LIQUEURS AND TIERHOEK WINE TASTINGS AND EVENTS
Tierhoek Wines / Photo Credits: Letha Malan Oelz – Tierhoek Wines
LETHA MALAN OELZ IS AVAILABLE TO HOST KAAPSE LIQUEURS AND TIERHOEK WINE TASTINGS AND EVENTS
Letha hosts both the signature lines of Kaapse Liqueurs and Tierhoek Wines.
Kaapse Liqueurs is a proudly South African company distributing liqueurs manufactured from locally sourced produce. All the ingredients are 100% South African, natural and indigenous to the area.
Tierhoek flagship is the Chenin Blanc made from low yielding 30 year old trellised vines, which are barrel fermented in French Oak to express the full flavors of this variety, while maintaining complexity and elegance.
Tierhoek Wines
Tierhoek was established as a farm in 1886 and is one of the oldest surviving, original Sandveld farms on the West Coast of Africa. This 715ha farm was owned by the Marais family from 1886 to 2001, and is presently owned by Tony and Shelly Sandell.
The Sandells have restored the derelict buildings back into their original Sandveld style, including an old horse mill and horse cart saddlery. A cellar is also being built to accommodate for the 20ha of newly planted vines.
Wine
Tierhoek is ideally suited for vineyards. The unique climate, soils and aspect all allow for premium wines that are characterized by intense fruit flavors, backed by subtle mineralogy and fresh acidity.
The flagship is the Chenin Blanc made from low yielding 30 year old trellised vines, which are barrel fermented in French Oak to express the full flavors of this variety, while maintaining complexity and elegance.
Some of these Chenin Blanc grapes are naturally dried off the vine for several weeks then barrel fermented in French Oak to produce Tierhoek straw wine.
Not to be outdone, the Sauvignon Blanc (unwooded) and Grenache Noir are some of the finest examples of their kind in South Africa. All the Tierhoek wines benefit from ageing in the bottle.
Kaapse Liqueurs
Artisan, Local and Natural
The driving force behind the company is the passion, hard work and expertise of Cape Town born and bred Carol Mills. It is through her efforts that the liqueurs have remained artisan, local and natural.
Based in the Western Cape, the business has been built on the very popular “market industry” which has taken off in the area. The casual nature of this phenomenon has allowed for extensive interaction with customers and generated very positive reaction and feedback.
Traditional liqueurs like Kaapse Liqueurs can enhance lifestyles, forming part of the celebration of relationships, get-togethers and festive community eating. Food pairings are a passion of the brands and the sensory experiences which can be created with the liqueurs are endless.
Have a fantastic year.
Letha
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Kaapse Liqueurs / Photo Credits: Letha Malan Oelz – Kaapse Liqueurs
Tierhoek Wines / Photo Credits: Letha Malan Oelz – Tierhoek Wines
WHAT IS PINTEREST? (In the Entertainment industry.)
Pinterest Logo / Photo Credit: Pinterest - Michael Deal and Juan Carlos Pagan
WHAT IS PINTEREST? (In the
Entertainment industry.)
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WHAT IS PINTEREST?
https://www.pinterest.com/
How does Instagram work?
Pinterest, Inc. is a social media web and mobile
application company. The social network allows users to visually share, and
discover new interests by posting (known as 'pinning' on Pinterest) images or
videos to their own or others' boards (i.e. a collection of 'pins,' usually
with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. It operates a
software system designed to enable discovery of information on the World Wide
Web using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded
by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp. Pinterest has reached 250
million monthly active users as of October 2018.
Pinterest is a free website that requires
registration to use. Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as
pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) through collections known as pin
boards.
Content can also be found outside Pinterest and
similarly uploaded to a board via the "Pin It" button, which can be
downloaded to the bookmark bar on a web browser, or be implemented by a
webmaster directly on the website.
Some websites include red and white "pin
it" buttons on items, which allow Pinterest users to pin them directly. In
2015, Pinterest implemented a feature that allows users to search with images
instead of words.
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann summarized the company
as a "catalogue of ideas" that inspires users to "go out and do
that thing", rather than as an image-based social network.
Pins
A Pin is an image that has been linked from a website
or uploaded. Pins saved from one user's board can be saved to someone else's
board, a process known as "repinning." In 2016, Pinterest renamed the
"Pin it" button to "Save." The purpose behind the renaming
was due to international expansion, making the site more intuitive to new
users. In October 2013, Pinterest began displaying advertisements in the form
of “Promoted Pins.” Promoted Pins are based on an individual user's interests,
things done on Pinterest, or a result of visiting an advertiser's site or app.
Boards
Boards are collections of pins dedicated to a theme
such as quotations, travel, or weddings.
Exploring
Pinterest uses a feature called Guided Search, which
gives keyword suggestions when entering a search term, narrowing down results.
The home feed is a collection of Pins from the users, boards, and topics
followed, as well as a few Promoted Pins and Pins Pinterest has picked. On the
main Pinterest page, a "pin feed" appears, displaying the
chronological activity from the Pinterest boards that a user follows.
In recent months, Pinterest introduced visual search
as part of their latest feature. This search feature allows users to take a
photo of existing pins, zoom into existing parts of a photo or take new photos.
Then, users could click into any of the assigned circles and multiple
suggestions will pop up in the guided search below the photo. If the item is in
Pinterest's database, it will direct the user to the shop or pins that are
similar. This feature incorporates the guided search feature as it gives
keyword suggestions and narrowing down the results for the photo.
Following
Following users and boards fills the home feed with
content. Users can follow and unfollow users as well as boards. Similar to
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Pinterest contains verified accounts. A
verified account will contain a checkmark next to their domain in the search
results. The verified profile will also contain a full website URL and
checkmark.
History
2009–2011: Founding
Development of Pinterest began in December 2009, and
the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. The site proceeded to operate
in an invitation-only open beta. Pinterest allows users to save images and
categorize them on different boards. They can follow other users' boards if
they have similar tastes. The evolution of Pinterest is based on the shared
interest of its users and relies on its members to produce the content. The
most popular categories, as of March 2012, were home, arts and crafts,
style/fashion, and food. Silbermann said he personally wrote to the site's
first 5,000 users offering his personal phone number and even meeting with some
of its users.
Silbermann and a few programmers operated the site
out of a small apartment until the summer of 2011. Early in 2010, the company's
investors and co-founder Ben Silbermann tried to encourage a New York-based
magazine publishing company to buy Pinterest but the publisher declined to meet
with the founders.
Nine months after the launch the website had 10,000
users. The launch of an iPhone app in early March 2011, brought in a more than
expected number of downloads. The app would later be updated in March 2013. The
Pinterest iPad app was launched August 2011. Pinterest Mobile, launched the
following month, is a version of the website for non-iPhone users.
On August 10, 2011, Time magazine listed Pinterest in
its "50 Best Websites of 2011" article. In December 2011, the site
became one of the top 10 largest social network services, according to Hitwise
data, with 11 million total visits per week. The next month, it drove more
referral traffic to retailers than LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+. The same
month, the company was named the best new startup of 2011 by TechCrunch. Noted
entrepreneurs and investors include: Jack Abraham, Michael Birch, Scott Belsky,
Brian Cohen, Shana Fisher, Ron Conway, FirstMark Capital, Kevin Hartz, Jeremy
Stoppelman, Hank Vigil, and Fritz Lanman.
Initially, there were several ways to register a new
Pinterest account. Potential users could either receive an invitation from an
already registered friend, or they could request an invitation directly from
the Pinterest website that could take some time to receive. An account can also
be created and accessed by linking Pinterest to a Facebook or Twitter profile.
When a user re-posts or re-pins an image to their own board, they have the
option of notifying their Facebook and Twitter followers. This feature can be
managed on the settings page.
2012–2018: Growth
For January 2012, comScore reported the site had 11.7
million unique U.S. visitors, making it the fastest site ever to break through
the 10 million unique visitor mark. comScore recorded a unique users moving
average growth of 85% from mid-January to mid-February and a 17% growth from
mid-February to mid-March. At the South by Southwest Interactive conference in
March 2012, Silbermann announced revamped profile pages were being developed and
would be implemented soon. On 23 March 2012, Pinterest unveiled updated terms
of service that eliminated the policy that gave it the right to sell its users'
content. The terms would go into effect April 6. According to Experian Hitwise,
the site became the third largest social network in the United States in March
2012, behind Facebook and Twitter.
Co-founder Paul Sciarra left his position at
Pinterest in April 2012 for a consulting job as entrepreneur in residence at
Andreessen Horowitz. On 17 May 2012, Japanese electronic commerce company
Rakuten announced it was leading a $100 million investment in Pinterest,
alongside investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners,
and FirstMark Capital, based on a valuation of $1.5 billion.
On August 10, 2012, Pinterest altered their policy so
that a request or an invitation was no longer required to join the site. In
addition, the Pinterest app for Android and iPad was also launched on August
14, 2012. On September 20, 2012 Pinterest announced the hiring of its new head
of engineering, Jon Jenkins. Jenkins came from Amazon, where he spent eight
years as an engineering lead and was also a director of developer tools,
platform analysis and website platform.
In October 2012, Pinterest announced a new feature
that would allow users to report others for negative and offensive activity or
block other users if they do not want to view their content. Pinterest said
they want to keep their community "positive and respectful." Also in
October, Pinterest launched business accounts allowing businesses to either
convert their existing personal accounts into business accounts, or start from
scratch.
Much of the service's early user base consisted of
infrequent contributors. The site's user growth, which slowed in March 2012,
could pick up as the site's user base solidifies around dedicated users
according to a comScore representative. In August 2012, Pinterest overtook
competing micro-blogging site Tumblr for the first time in terms of unique
monthly visitors, clocking in at just under 25 million.
In February 2013, Reuters and ComScore stated that
Pinterest had 48.7 million users globally. A study released in July 2013 by
French social media agency Semiocast revealed the website had 70 million users
worldwide.
In 2014, Pinterest generated its first revenue, when
it began charging advertisers to promote their wares to the site's millions of
hobbyists, vacation planners, and do-it-yourselfers. Ads on the site could
generate as much as $500 million in 2016, estimates Michael Pachter, an analyst
at Wedbush Securities.
In October 2016, Pinterest announced 150 million
monthly active users, 70 million in the U.S. and 80 million outside the U.S.
Then in April 2017, they announced 175 million monthly active users, with 3x
year over year growth in Germany and Brazil and 2x year over year growth in
France and Japan.
In June 2017, Pinterest raised $150 million from a group
of existing investors.
In September 2018, Pinterest announced that it had
250 million monthly active users, with most new growth coming from outside the
United States of America.
2013–2017: Acquisitions
In March 2013, Pinterest acquired Livestar. Terms
were not disclosed. In early October 2013, Pinterest acquired Hackermeter. The
company's co-founders, Lucas Baker and Frost Li, joined Pinterest as engineers.
In late October 2013, Pinterest secured a $225
million round of equity funding that valued the website at $3.8 billion.
In April 2015, Pinterest acquired the team from Hike
Labs, which had been developing a mobile publishing application called Drafty.
In June 2015, Pinterest unveiled "buyable
pins". Rich Pins – pins which have more information than a normal link –
will get a new button that allows users to purchase things directly from
partners that it's working for. Users will see prices, be able to select
specific types of a product (like the color), and then they can tap the button
to buy the product. The item will arrive at the user's door.
In December 2015, Pinterest launched a new way for
users to monitor price drops on buyable pins. "When users save pins,
they’ll get a heads up when a price drops in the form of an in-app notification
and an email. They can then jump straight to that pin and make the purchase."
In August 2016, Pinterest launched a video player
that lets users and brands upload and store clips of any length straight to the
site. On August 23, 2016, Pinterest announced that it would be acquiring the
team behind Instapaper, which will continue operating as a separate app. The
Instapaper team will both work on the core Pinterest experience and updating
Instapaper. On March 8, 2017, Pinterest said it had acquired Jelly Industries,
a small search-engine company founded by Biz Stone.
In February 2019, Wall Street Journal stated that
Pinterest secretly filed for IPO. The total valuation of the company at the
time reached $12 billion.
Business
Pinterest was first conceptualized in December 2009
by cofounders Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra. The first prototype
was launched in March 2010 and made available to a small group of colleagues
and family members. Since its inception, it has developed into a well-funded site
financially supported by a group of successful entrepreneurs and investors
including FirstMark Capital, Jack Abraham (Milo), Michael Birch (Bebo), Scott
Belsky (Behance), Shana Fisher (Highline Venture Partners), Ron Conway (SV
Angel), Kevin Hartz (EventBrite), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp), Hank Vigil, Fritz
Lanman, and Brian S. Cohen.
In early 2011, the company secured a US$10 million
Series A financing led by Jeremy Levine and Sarah Tavel of Bessemer Venture
Partners. In October 2011, after an introduction from Kevin Hartz and Jeremy
Stoppelman, the company secured US$27 million in funding from Andreessen
Horowitz, which valued the company at US$200 million.
Retail companies use Pinterest for advertising and
style trending. Pinterest intends web design to support "style conscious
retailers", where customers can visualize products within a consumer
context. Companies like The Gap, Chobani, Nordstrom, and West Elm use Pinterest
to gather online referrals that link users with similar interests to a company.
The Gap has arguably taken the biggest initiative in their use of Pinterest,
employing their own themed pin boards such as "Denim Icons" and
"Everybody in Gap."
Pinterest played a role in the run-up to the 2012 US
presidential election. The wives of both candidates created accounts. Ann
Romney debuted her Pinterest account in March and First Lady Michelle Obama
announced hers in June.
In May 2012, Pinterest was valued at $1.5 billion. In
February 2013, it was valued at $2.5 billion. In October 2013, it was valued at
$3.8 billion. In May 2014, it was valued at $5 billion. In June 2015, it was
valued at $11 billion. In May 2015, Fortune Magazine listed Pinterest in the
8th position on its Unicorn List, which ranks startups that have a valuation
exceeding $1 billion. As of 2017 the company is valued at $12 billion.
In June 2015, Pinterest added the "Buy"
button to its mobile app.
In Alex Heath's article on Business Insider, he sheds
a light to Pinterest's interest in becoming a search company, hence, “the
company is putting search front and center in its app with [Pinterest Lens].”
In March 2019, Pinterest added product catalogs and
personalized shopping recommendations with the "more from [brand]"
option, showcasing a range of product Pins from the same business.
Copyrighted content
Pinterest has a notification system that copyright
holders can use to request that content be removed from the site. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) safe harbor status of Pinterest has been
questioned given that it actively promotes its users to copy to Pinterest, for
their perpetual use, any image on the Internet. Pinterest users cannot claim
safe harbor status and as such are exposed to possible legal action for pinning
copyright material. Pinterest allows users to transfer information, intellectual
property rights come to play.
A "nopin" HTML Meta tag was released by
Pinterest on 20 February 2012 to allow websites to opt out of their images
being pinned. On 24 February 2012, Flickr implemented the code to allow users
to opt out.
Pinterest released a statement in March 2012 saying
it believed it was protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provisions.
In early May 2012, the site added automatic
attribution of authors on images originating from Flickr, Behance, YouTube and
Vimeo. Automatic attribution was also added for Pins from sites mirroring
content on Flickr. At the same time, Flickr added a Pin shortcut to its share
option menu to users who have not opted out of sharing their images.
Sources, References & Credits: Google, Wikipedia, Wikihow, WikiBooks,
Pinterest, IMDB, Linked In, Indie Wire, Film Making Stuff, Hiive, Film Daily, New
York Film Academy, The Balance, Careers Hub, The Numbers, Film Maker, TV Guide
Magazine, Blurb, Media Match, Quora, Creative Skill Set, Chron, Investopedia,
Variety, No Film School, WGA, BBC, Daily Variety, The Film Agency, Best Sample
Resume, How Stuff Works, Studio Binder, Career Trend, Producer's Code of
Credits, Truity, Production Hub, Producers Guild of America, Film Connection, Variety,
Wolf Crow, Get In Media, Production Beast, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, UCAS, Frankenbite,
Realty 101, Careers Hub, Screen Play Scripts, Elements of Cinema, Script
Doctor, ASCAP, Film Independent, Any Possibility, CTLsites, NYFA, Future Learn,
VOM Productions, Mad Studios, DP School, DGA, IATSE, ASC, MPAA, HFPA, MPSE,
CDG, AFI, Box Office Mojo, Rotten Tomatoes, The Numbers, Netflix, Vimeo,
Instagram, Pinterest,
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"AS IS" AND BRUCE BISBEY MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS
OR WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, REGARDING THIS INFORMATION. BRUCE BISBEY DOES
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Pagan
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Christmas with the Zombies...One of the Santa Zombies on the stairs of the courthouse.
Christmas with the Zombies...One of the Santa Zombies on the stairs of the courthouse / Photo Credit: DDP
Saturday, May 11, 2019
WHAT IS INSTAGRAM? (In the Entertainment industry.)
Instagram Logo / Photo Credit: Instagram
WHAT IS INSTAGRAM? (In the
Entertainment industry.)
Bruce Bisbey…please follow me at: https://dumbdogproductions.com/
https://dumbdogproductionsllc.blogspot.com
or https://www.facebook.com/DumbDogProductionsLLC/ thank you.
WHAT IS INSTAGRAM?
How does Instagram work?
How do you access my Instagram account?
Go to your profile by clicking. Click and select
Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Data Download and click Request
Download. Enter the email address where you'd like to receive a link to your
data and enter your Instagram account password.
Can you post on Instagram from my computer?
Sure, you can email the photos from your computer to
your phone, save them on your phone, and then upload through the Instagram app
... Here are several other ways to post from your PC directly to Instagram
without needing to use your phone. They include third-party apps and browser
tricks. Some are free; some are paid.
When should you post on Instagram?
Post to Instagram between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM CDT
from Tuesday to Friday. You'll get the most consistent engagement that way. The
general data above about optimal post timing is a great starting point for
growing an engaged Instagram audience.
How do you increase your reach on Instagram?
Top 5 Tips to Boost Your Instagram Reach:
- Set engagement as your primary goal. When it comes to increasing reach in any social media tool, engagement should always be the guide for your strategy. ...
- Find the right time to post. ...
- Try video content. ...
- Optimize your hashtags. ...
- Highlight User-Generated Content…
Instagram
Instagram (also known as IG or Instal) is a photo and
video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created
by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on
iOS. A version for Android devices was released a year and half later, in April
2012, followed by a feature-limited website interface in November 2012, and
apps for Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 in April 2016 and October 2016
respectively.
The app allows users to upload photos and videos to
the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organized with tags
and location information. An account's posts can be shared publicly or with
pre-approved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and
locations, and view trending content. Users can "like" photos, and
follow other users to add their content to a feed.
The service was originally distinguished by only
allowing content to be framed in a square (1:1) aspect ratio, but these
restrictions were eased in 2015. The service also added messaging features, the
ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, as well as
"Stories"—similar to its main competitor Snapchat—which allows users
to post photos and videos to a sequential feed, with each post accessible by
others for 24 hours each. As of January 2019, the Stories feature is being used
by 500 million users daily.
After its launch in 2010, Instagram rapidly gained
popularity, with one million registered users in two months, 10 million in a
year, and 1 billion as of May 2019. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the
service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. As of October 2015,
over 40 billion photos had been uploaded to the service. Although praised for
its influence, Instagram has been the subject of criticism, most notably for
policy and interface changes, allegations of censorship, and illegal or
improper content uploaded by users.
As of 14 January 2019, the most liked photo on
Instagram is a picture of an egg, posted by the account @world_record_egg,
created with a sole purpose of surpassing the previous record of 18 million
likes on a Kylie Jenner post. The picture currently has over 50 million likes.
Instagram began development in San Francisco, when
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5
check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography. As Krieger reasoned, Burbn
became too similar to Foursquare, and both realized that it had gone too far.
Burbn was then pivoted to become more focused on photo-sharing. The word
Instagram is a portmanteau of instant camera and telegram.
On March 5, 2010, Systrom closed a $500,000 seed
funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on
Burbn. Josh Riedel joined the company in October as Community Manager, Shayne
Sweeney joined in November as an engineer, and Jessica Zollman joined as a
Community Evangelist in August 2011.
Kevin Systrom posted the first photo to Instagram on
July 16, 2010. The photo shows a dog in Mexico and Systrom's girlfriend's foot;
the photo has been enhanced using Instagram's X-PRO2 filter.
On October 6, 2010, the Instagram iOS app was
officially released through the App Store.
In February 2011, it was reported that Instagram had
raised $7 million in Series A funding from a variety of investors, including
Benchmark Capital, Jack Dorsey, Chris Sacca (through Capital fund), and Adam
D'Angelo. The deal valued Instagram at around $20 million.
On April 3, 2012, Instagram was released for Android
phones, and it was downloaded more than one million times in less than one day.
In March 2012, The Wall Street Journal reported that
Instagram was raising a new round of financing that would value the company at
$500 million, details that were confirmed the following month, when Instagram
raised $50 million from venture capitalists with a $500 million valuation.
Joshua Kushner was the second largest investor in Instagram's Series B
fundraising round, leading his investment firm Thrive Capital to double its
money, after the sale to Facebook.
The same month, Facebook bought Instagram for $1
billion in cash and stock, with a plan to keep the company independently
managed. Britain's Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 14, 2012,
and on August 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. closed its
investigation, allowing the deal to proceed. On September 6, 2012, the deal between
Instagram and Facebook was officially closed.
The deal, which was made just prior to Facebook's
scheduled IPO, cost about a quarter of Facebook's cash-on-hand, according to
figures documented at the end of 2011. The deal was for a company characterized
as having "lots of buzz but no business model", and the price was
contrasted with the $35 million Yahoo! paid for Flickr in 2005. Mark Zuckerberg
noted that Facebook was "committed to building and growing Instagram
independently", in contrast to its past practices. According to Wired, the
deal netted Systrom $400 million based on his ownership stake in the business.
The exact purchase price was $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of
stock.
In November 2012, Instagram launched website
profiles, allowing anyone to see users' feeds from their web browsers. However,
the website interface was limited in functionality, with notable omissions
including the lack of a search bar, a news feed, and the ability to upload
photos. In February 2013, the website was updated to offer a news feed, and in
June 2015, the website was redesigned to offer bigger photos.
On October 22, 2013, during the Nokia World event
held in Abu Dhabi, Systrom confirmed the upcoming release of the official Instagram
app for Windows Phone, after pressure from Nokia and the public to develop an
app for the platform. The app was released as a beta version on November 21,
2013, and was lacking the ability to record and upload video, though an
Instagram spokesperson stated that "We're not finished, and our team will
continue developing the Windows Phone app to keep releasing features and
bringing you the best Instagram possible". In April 2016, Instagram
upgraded the app to Windows 10 Mobile, adding support for video and direct
messages, followed by later updates in October 2016 that extended the app to
Windows 10 personal computers and tablets.
The Android app has received two major exclusive
updates. The first, introduced in March 2014, cut the size of the app by half
and added significant improvements to performance and responsiveness on a wide
variety of Android devices. The Verge wrote that the development team had
tested the app on devices not for sale in the United States, particularly
low-end models like Samsung Galaxy Y, in an effort to improve the app for its
user base located outside the U.S. Engineering manager Philip McAllister told
The Verge that "More than 60 percent of our users are outside the US, and
Android covers roughly half of total Instagram users". The second update,
introduced in April 2017, added an offline mode, in which content previously
loaded in the news feed is available without an Internet connection, and users
can comment, like, save media, and unfollow users, all of which will take
effect once the user goes back online. At the time of the announcement, it was
reported that 80% of Instagram's 600 million users are located outside the
U.S., and while the aforementioned functionality was live at announcement,
Instagram also announced its intention to make more features available offline
"in the following months", and that they were "exploring an iOS
version".
Since the app's launch it had used the Foursquare API
technology to provide named location tagging. In March 2014, Instagram started
testing switching the technology to using Facebook Places.
Announced in March 2016 and taking place in June,
Instagram switched from a strictly chronological oldest-to-newest news feed to
a new, algorithm-based feed. The change received "widespread outcry"
following Instagram's March announcement, but Instagram stated that the feature
would help users discover lost posts, writing that "You may be surprised
to learn that people miss on average 70 percent of their feeds. As Instagram
has grown, it's become harder to keep up with all the photos and videos people
share. This means you often don't see the posts you might care about the most.
To improve your experience, your feed will soon be ordered to show the moments
we believe you will care about the most."
On May 11, 2016, Instagram revamped its design,
adding a black-and-white theme for the app and a more abstract, "modern"
and colorful icon. Rumors of a redesign first started circulating in April,
when The Verge received a screenshot from a tipster, but at the time, an
Instagram spokesperson simply told the publication that "This is a design
test only".
On September 24, 2018, Krieger and Systrom announced
in a statement they would be stepping down from Instagram. On October 1, 2018,
it was announced that Adam Mosseri would be the new head of Instagram.
On November 28, 2018, Instagram adds alternative text
features to photo posts allowing visual impaired user to listen to descriptions
of each photo which has alternative text, either automatic generated text or
user-input text.
Users can upload photographs and short videos, follow
other users' feeds, and geotag images with the name of a location. Users can
set their account as "private", thereby requiring that they approve
any new follower requests. Users can connect their Instagram account to other
social networking sites, enabling them to share uploaded photos to those sites.
In January 2011, Instagram introduced hashtags to help users discover both
photos and each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and
relevant, rather than tagging generic words like "photo", to make
photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagram users. In September
2011, a new version of the app included new and live filters, instant
tilt–shift, high-resolution photographs, optional borders, one-click rotation,
and an updated icon. In August 2015, Instagram started allowing users to upload
full-size landscape and portrait photos and videos onto the service, dropping
the previous requirement of a square frame. In August 2016, Instagram added a
zoom feature that allows users to pinch-to-zoom the screen to virtually zoom in
on photos and videos. In September 2016, Instagram removed Photo Maps, which
previously allowed users to see a map of their geotagged photos. An Instagram spokesperson
stated that "Photo Map was not widely used, so we've decided to remove the
feature and focus on other priorities". In December 2016, Instagram
introduced a feature letting users save photos for later viewing. Bookmarked
posts get added to a private page in the app. The feature was updated in April
2017 to let users organize saved posts into different collections.
In February 2017, Instagram announced that users
would be able to upload up to ten pictures or videos to one post, with the
content appearing as a swipe able carousel. The feature originally limited
photos to the square format, but received an update in August to enable
portrait and landscape photos instead. In May, Instagram updated its mobile
website to allow users to upload photos, and to add a "lightweight"
version of the Explore tab. Later in May, Instagram added an
"Archive" feature, letting users hide posts in a private storage
area, out of visibility for the public and other users. The move was seen as a
way to prevent users from deleting photos that don't garner a desired number of
"likes" or are deemed boring, but also as a way to limit the
"emergent behavior" of deleting photos, which deprives the service of
content. In August, Instagram announced that it would start organizing comments
into threads, letting users more easily interact with replies. In April 2018,
Instagram launched its version of a portrait mode called "focus
mode," which gently blurs the background of a photo or video while keeping
the subject in focus when selected.
Instagram shopping allows users to tap on a product
they like in Stories and Feed and click a tag that takes them to the company's
product list. Users can also build a shopping list inside the platform by tapping
on a tag and saving it. The Checkout feature was added in a later stage which
allows users to buy products in app.
Explore
In June 2012, Instagram introduced
"Explore", a tab inside the app that displays popular photos, photos
taken at nearby locations, and search. The tab was updated in June 2015 to
feature trending tags and places, curated content, and the ability to search
for locations. In April 2016, Instagram added a "Videos You Might Like"
channel to the tab, followed by an "Events" channel in August,
featuring videos from concerts, sports games, and other live events, followed
by the addition of Instagram Stories in October. The tab was later expanded
again in November 2016 after Instagram Live launched to display an
algorithmically-curated page of the "best" Instagram Live videos currently
airing. In May 2017, Instagram once again updated the Explore tab to promote
public Stories content from nearby places.
Video
Initially a purely photo-sharing service, Instagram
incorporated 15-second video sharing in June 2013. The addition was seen by
some in the technology media as Facebook's attempt at competing with
then-popular video-sharing application Vine. In August 2015, Instagram added
support for widescreen videos. In March 2016, Instagram increased the 15-second
video limit to 60 seconds. Albums were introduced in February 2017, which allow
up to 10 minutes of video to be shared in one post.
IGTV
IGTV is a vertical video application launched by
Instagram in June 2018. Basic functionality is also available within the
Instagram app and website. IGTV allows uploads of up to 10 minutes in length
with a file size of up to 650 MB, with verified and popular users allowed to
upload videos of up to 60 minutes in length with a file size of up to 5.4 GB.
The app automatically begins playing videos as soon as it is launched, which
CEO Kevin Systrom contrasted to video hosts where one must first locate a
video.
Instagram Direct
In December 2013, Instagram announced Instagram
Direct, a feature that lets users interact through private messaging. Users who
follow each other can send private messages with photos and videos, in contrast
to the public-only requirement that was previously in place. When users receive
a private message from someone they don't follow, the message is marked as
pending and the user must accept to see it. Users can send a photo to a maximum
of 15 people. The feature received a major update in September 2015, adding
conversation threading and making it possible for users to share locations,
hashtag pages, and profiles through private messages directly from the news
feed. Additionally, users can now reply to private messages with text, emoji or
by clicking on a heart icon. A camera inside Direct lets users take a photo and
send it to the recipient without leaving the conversation. A new update in
November 2016 let users make their private messages "disappear" after
being viewed by the recipient, with the sender receiving a notification if the
recipient takes a screenshot. In April 2017, Instagram redesigned Direct to
combine all private messages, both permanent and ephemeral, into the same
message threads. In May, Instagram made it possible to send website links in
messages, and also added support for sending photos in their original portrait
or landscape orientation without cropping.
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