Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Remember when Instagram announced that it had the right to sell users’ photos or use them in advertisements?

...One app making waves in this space is Tadaa. If you haven’t yet heard of it, but are a photo fanatic, you should definitely try it out. As with the majority of photo apps, you can alter the photos you take or import by applying selective editing features such as filters and adjustments. Tadaa’s Unique Draw…

What sets Tadaa apart, however, is that you can manually apply particular effects with the swipe of your finger.  The app also touts other sophisticated features, such as a “tilt shift effect,” which lets you customize the orientation, width and degree of blur to your photos. And while you can share your images with other app users and through your social networks, like Instagram, Tadaa offers both HD and real-time photo sharing capabilities....

Two years ago, photo-sharing application Instagram came onto the scene and quickly took the entire Internet by storm. Within its short existence, the service has made some major updates, been gobbled up by Facebook for $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of stock, and now has over 100 million registered users with over 5 billion photos uploaded.

As Instagram celebrates another year, it’s fascinating to look back how this one application survived in its industry while other similar ones vanished — PicPlz shut its doors earlier this year while Hipstamatic found itself laying off practically everyone. Of course there have been some new competitors that have sprouted up and even an ecosystem surrounding what Instagram has been doing has emerged. Just look at Nitrogram, Keepsy, Postagram, Hatchcraft, Instacanvas, and many others....

[Very interesting look at Instagram's success ~ Jeff]