Instagram creators who have used the platform to launch full-time careers have, to date, relied on indirect sources of revenue like branded content and merchandise sales to support their livelihoods.

Instagram is expanding creators’ modes of revenue. The platform revealed in a company blog post that it will begin testing a feature allowing influencers to monetize live videos. Views on Instagram ...

It's funny to think back to when Facebook's 2012 buyout of photo sharing app Instagram shocked the investing world with its $715 million price tag. Today, in light of Facebook's recent agreement to ...

Instagram may, at long last, share a piece of its $20 billion ad revenue with creators. Spotted by the Hong Kong-based developer Jane Manchun Wong, who reverse-engineers apps to unearth unreleased ...

Get ready, IGTV creators, because your turn to make some cash is coming. Almost two years ago, Instagram launched IGTV to compete with YouTube. If you'd assumed at any point that creators could ...

Deutsche Bank said in a note Friday it sees Facebook Inc FB's Instagram, original video and Messenger monetization as tailwinds ahead. Facebook is scheduled to release its second-quarter results after ...

Platforms like YouTube and TikTok have helped creators skyrocket to fame and build colossal careers. Instagram wants to do the same. The platform plans to prioritize smaller, emerging creators. Here's ...

Instagram on Wednesday announced that it will start running advertisements in IGTV, its home for long-form videos, and sharing that revenue with creators. It is also introducing paid badges during ...

For modern mobile shopping startups, customers’ acceptance of push notifications has been the key, according to Thomas Rankin, the cofounder and CEO of Dash Hudson. Whereas established ecommerce and ...

Instagram is still searching to find the right recipe for IGTV, the long-form video service it debuted nearly a year ago. In the hopes of encouraging usage of IGTV, Instagram is breaking the original ...

Facebook recently announced that it will roll out advertisements on its photo sharing service, Instagram, which it acquired last year for $1 billion in cash and equity. That’s good news for the ...

At first glance, the similarities between PicMix and Instagram are obvious. Both apps are photo sharing platforms with simple, square Polaroid-esque aesthetics, and display photos from friends in ...