As Instagram’s founders depart, execution can’t skip a beat.
As expected, Instagram’s VP of Product — who previously built Facebook’s news feed — was promoted to Head of Instagram.
On the first episode of Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway also discuss the Instagram co-founders’ dramatic exit and “tech bias.”
Facebook’s David Marcus will have none of it.
The popular photo and video app and its social network parent have become more intertwined. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger were not into it.
Systrom and Krieger have shaped virtually everything about Instagram’s culture and product for the past six years.
Everyone loves Stories. Everyone including Google.
Instagram is testing a dedicated shopping channel on its Explore tab to see if that grabs users who are intentionally looking to spend some cash.
It’s not just about the redesign.
Levine is taking over all of Facebook’s global partnerships.
They’re well aware of its issues.
Can it become Facebook’s next big business?
It’s part of the “time well spent” movement.
The worst kind of fame, he says on Recode Media, is the kind that makes everyone ask, “Where do I know you from?”
The Instagram account has made its name by curating sports content you won’t see elsewhere.
Raja, the creator of the 10-million-follower Instagram account House of Highlights, hasn’t taken a day off in four years.
In a crowded media world, “Our base differentiator is that we actually have a mission that we stand for.”
Vishal Shah will join us in New York City in mid-September.
The women who run Nat Geo’s magazine, digital team and TV networks talk with Kara Swisher on the latest Recode Decode.
Snapchat isn’t far behind.
The craziest thing I saw at Cannes was restraint.
Instagram doesn’t have a business for IGTV, but it’ll need to make money quickly.
Plus Messenger’s autoplay video ads, Pinterest’s shopping ambitions and more news from Cannes Lions.
The company has been getting complaints from users who miss the old, reverse-chronological timeline.
Professional lacrosse player Paul Rabil talks about the intersection of social media and sports on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are now all rolling up to Cox.
Calling CEO Mark Zuckerberg “completely immoral,” the provocative investor has no regrets and says “no founder should ever sell a company to him.”
You should read them.
Facebook’s response to Cambridge Analytica continues with Instagram.
On the latest Recode Decode, Perel says dating apps are giving us too many options, and other apps give us an excuse to be “psychologically gone.”
The Instagram stars’ morning show was dropped soon after racist tweets surfaced and a family connection to an anti-Muslim activist was made public.
It looks like Facebook’s U.S. user growth has officially peaked.
The harassment of the teens who spoke up after the Parkland massacre is a black-and-white case study of the impotence of today’s social media giants.
23-year-old Omar Raja has built an Instagram powerhouse.
That’s according to research firm eMarketer.
How Facebook’s various properties stack up.
CEO Dave Finocchio says Snapchat is interesting, too — but Instagram is where Bleacher Report is making money.
Contrary to what you might think, there will be Russian skaters competing.
Good news, Snap investors.