20 Facebook Stats
Instagram Usage & Market Share
1. Instagram has 200 million monthly active users
2. Estimated Instagrammers: 1.95 million Australian and 314,860 New Zealanders
3. 15% of Aussies own an Instagram account and 7% used it within the past month
4. An average of 60 million photos are added to the platform daily
5. Instagram has 7% of daily photo uploads, behind Snapchat (49%) and Facebook (43%)
6. Facebook bought Instagram in April of 2012 for $1 billion in cash and stock
7. Since Facebook acquisition Instagram doubled its user base from 100 million users
8. 11% of global smartphone users have used Instagram in the past month
9. 2014 will see Ads for the first time on Instagram as Omnicom will invest $100 million
User Profiles & Behaviour
10. Instagrammers like 1.6 billion updates daily
11. Thursday is the busiest day for brands posting, Sunday gets highest interaction levels
12. An Australian Instagrammer uploads 10 photos per month, averages 2.3 pics per week
13. Peak time Down'under is 8pm midweek and 5pm at weekends
14. 70% of Instagrammers access the site daily
15. Instagram unsurprisingly has a younger skew =18 - 29 (37%), 30 - 49 (18%), 50+ (7%)
Business Uptake & Content Marketing
16. 71% of Interbrand's Top 100 Brands have an account, 65% are actively posting
17. The automotive, media and luxury industries deliver 59% of total brand posts
18. Electronics, technology, alcohol, and FMCG make 23% of total brands posts
19. 40% of all Instagram videos posted in the last month have been by brands
20. Among top brands, videos underperform the brand engagement average by 24%
21. Brands are able to drive 26% more engagement with photos than videos
22. Hashtags are the norm, 83% of posts by top brands include at least one hashtag
23. Posts by the top ten brands contain just one hashtag (36% of posts)
24. The most popular brand picture settings are 1. #nofilter 2. Lo-fi 3. X-Pro II
25. Mayfair filter gets average 23.044 interactions (sum of likes and comments)
26. For every 33 likes you get 1 comment on average
27. Most popular Australian Instagram hashtags:
a. #INSTAGOOD
b. #LOVE
c. #PHOTOOFTHEDAY
d. #AUSTRALIA
e. #IGERS