Industry News is an archive of all the latest updates in the world of Instagram and blogging. Keep informed via interviews with global, influential creatives and strategy tips for engagement and growth. Popular posts include the Pay to Play series focused on the algorithm change and subsequent developments that have affected Instagram users.
For a long time, I believed that hate speech shouldn’t be gratified by a response. That if someone is so dissatisfied with their own life that they would like an entire group of people, in this case, a whole profession ‘to be dead’, they should seek medical help instead of public attention. But that isn’t the world that we live…
I was 12 when I first realised my ‘otherness’. It’s a charged word but also the most appropriate to describe that realisation that I didn’t look like my neighbours and that they didn’t look like me. Particularly the 60 year old man across the road that helped us get rid of the dead mouse a cat had dropped on our…
Is social media fair and is that even a sensible question? It seems that anyone that pays any attention to Instagram comes face to face with the question of how much is ‘fair’ in social media. As a new industry that is disrupting many others like fashion, advertising and travel to name a few, it’s hard to gauge how to…
Social media is receptive to a lot of things but it seems that there’s a lack of diversity in travel – in opinion and aesthetic – and there’s little demand for much needed change. Recently, I took part in a panel discussion at Expedia, discussing the quote “if prejudice was a disease, travel is the cure”. It got me thinking…
A while back on one of my posts, I asked my audience on Instagram if they thought that influencers kind of ‘look the same’. If you were one of the many that contributed to the discussion, you might’ve noticed that instead of taking it to mean that we’re all motivated to do so by brands, the association was with…
Bloggers taking on modelling jobs The first kind of model was hired based on how representative they were of the consumer. It started back when women would commission clothing from seamstresses and individuals that resembled the patron were hired to display the dresses, accessories, snuff boxes… whatever. Fast forward to the kind of models today that you and I recognise,…
