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MarTech » Performance Marketing » Instagram now has more than 1M advertisers, doubling in past 6 months

Instagram now has more than 1M advertisers, doubling in past 6 months

As Instagram's advertiser base has ballooned, so has the number of people using the app to contact brands.

Tim Peterson on March 22, 2017 at 9:00 am | Reading time: 2 minutes

It has been a year and a half since Instagram rolled out the welcome mat to all advertisers. Remember that as you read the next sentence.

Instagram now has more than 1 million monthly active advertisers, the company announced on Wednesday. That’s five times as many advertisers as the Facebook-owned photo-and-video app claimed 13 months ago and twice as many as it had six months ago, though it’s only a quarter of Facebook’s 4 million advertisers.

It probably helps that Instagram has been able to prove itself not only as an advertising channel, but also as a conduit for customers to contact businesses.

More than 80 percent of the 600 million people who use Instagram each month follow a brand. And in the past month, more than 120 million people — or roughly 20 percent of Instagram’s monthly audience — have used Instagram to visit a brand’s website, get directions to a business location or contact a company by phone, email or direct message.

The rising number of people using Instagram like it’s the new-age yellow pages is bolstered by Instagram’s adoption of business-specific accounts. In late May 2016, Instagram rolled out business profiles that, among other things, added a button to brands’ profile pages that people could use to contact the business and an option for businesses to buy ads within Instagram’s app. Roughly nine months later, 8 million companies have converted their accounts to Instagram’s version of Facebook’s Pages.

And Instagram is adding to the ways that people can communicate with businesses through its app. Later this year, it will add a way for people to book services, such as scheduling a haircut, through a business’s Instagram profile, according to the company.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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About The Author

Tim Peterson
Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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