Image Hosting Sites

Recently a lot of image hosting sites are there today we will

discuss the best photo sharing sites in the world.
• Imgur : ou can upload your photos and animated images
(or Gifs) hassle-free in full-size resolution. Anyone can
sign up for imgur today and share an unlimited number
of photos and images.
• PostImage: claim to store your images for a lifetime
which you can get even without registration. When you
upload an image to the site, you can resize it. Moreover,
you can make your photo expire after certain period and
it will be removed automatically after this period. This
site is more for image storage.
• ImageVenue: You can upload your images up
to 3 Mb in size. the website is created for
image hosting for bloggers, forums, and
webmasters.
• WeTransfer :was founded in 2009 is one of the
fastest ways to send photos and other big files
to people all around the globe. You can send a
file smaller than 2GB for free, or buy a
premium account and share bigger files with
anyone.
 Photo and Video Sharing Grow Online
• In a new survey conducted by Pew Research Center’s
Internet Project, more than half of internet users post or
share photos or videos online. Our latest data shows:
• 54% of adult internet users post original photos or videos
online that they themselves have created. We call
them creators and their number has grown from 46% of
internet users last year.
• 47% of adult internet users take photos or videos that they
have found online and repost them on sites designed for
sharing images with many people. We call
them curators and their number has grown from 41% of
internet users last year.
• The creator group is made up of those who have
posted photos they have taken themselves (52% of internet users
do so) and those who have posted videos they have taken
themselves (26% of internet users). If a person did either of these
activities (or both), we consider them an online image creator.
• The curator group is made up of those who have
taken photos they found online and posted them on a sited used
for sharing images with others (42% of internet users have done
so) and those who have taken videos they found online and
posted them to a video-sharing site (36% of internet users have
done so). If a person did either of these activities (or both), we
consider them an online image curator.
• Taken together, 62% of internet users have done at least one of
these creating or curating activities. This is a significant increase
from the 56% who did so in 2012. Some 40% of internet users
are both creators and curators.
 Social Media Marketing for Businesses:
Decoding Media Sharing Platforms
• Visual mediums have always been the
strongest support to storytelling and what is
marketing if not great storytelling. Everyone is
using media sharing platforms to get their
message across to the audience in the most
appealing way possible. It can be via the
Instagram ads that pop up slyly while you tap
through your stories or the linked YouTube
posts that you feel compelled to click on. 
Media sharing platforms: Gateway to visual
storytelling
Using media sharing platforms on social media
allows you to achieve the following goals:
• Brand awareness:
These platforms help in forming more reliable
connections with audiences by sharing brand
stories and features in the format of product
images, how-to videos, video testimonials,
visual ads and celebrity endorsements.
• Builds trust between you and your audience:
use photo or videos to make it happen. Trust is a vital
component for every business. Remember, customers
will only buy your product if they feel they can trust
your brand. To maintain your credibility, establish
your authority, and build solid relationships with your
clients, you need videos. This medium fosters trust
because you can be transparent and honest.
•   Audience engagement:
Media sharing platforms use interactive and targeted
content formats to get their followers to comment,
like, share and tag, increasing brand recall in the
customer’s mind and converts viewers into
customers.
• Mobile users crave video.:
Since the advent of mobile technology, from
smartphones to mobile data, your clients love
consuming content anytime, anywhere. With the rise
of Bluetooth earbuds, more people watch videos
while on the go. You can often see everyone watching
videos as they:
• Go on with their daily commute.
• Wait for appointments to start.
• Relax at home after a long day.
• Take a breather while at work.
So, creating brand videos and releasing them on your
social media profile will help you generate more leads
and entice more prospects for your business. 
 case studies where clever Instagram
marketing got huge results
First some insight about Instagram:
Here are some useful Instagram statistics to keep in
mind:
• In India, currently, there are more than 110
million Instagram users.
• Almost 65% of these users lie in the age group of
18-34 years of age.
• On Instagram, 73.5% of the content is images,
13.7% is video, and 12.7% is carousels. 
 Adidas Neo
• As part of a campaign to promote their Neo brand, Adidas
asked their followers to create Adidas-inspired Instagram
posts with the hashtag #MyNeoShoot. The best content
creators were then invited to model in a professional
photo shoot, the results of which would be rolled out on
the Adidas Instagram channel. To help spread the word
about the contest, Adidas enlisted the support of one of
Instagram’s most popular celebrities: Selena Gomez.
• Adidas generated 71,000 mentions of the #MyNeoShoot
hashtag and gained 41,000 new followers. It shows that
an imaginative contest is enough to engage your audience
and highlights the power of social media influencers.
 Bloom & Wild
• Bloom & Wild are a luminous example of how you can grow your
business through Instagram ads without the big-brand budget.
• The flower delivery startup wanted to attract a wider audience to
their fledgling business. So they turned to Instagram. But to make
the most of their budget, they used their existing email list to
target a lookalike audience on Instagram via Facebook’s Power
Editor. After a little testing they found that video ads provided
their best conversion rates, so doubled down on their efforts.
• Bloom & Wild increased their bouquet orders by 62 per cent and
saw a huge upswing in new customers commenting on
their Instagram profile. It’s a great example of how testing
and staying on top of your metrics can help you make the most
of a limited budget.
 Bejeweled
• Social media influencers are particularly influential on Instagram.
Certainly that was the case for the developers behind mobile gaming
app Bejeweled, who partnered with Instagram’s top influencers to
inspire millions to purchase the app.
• Bejeweled introduced the campaign with two creative YouTube
shorts featuring people – and canine influencer JiffPom – using the
mobile game as a liberator from the shackles of boredom.
• The campaign also utilised top Instagram influencers (including
David Lopez and Koya Webb), who shared photos of themselves
playing the game with the hashtag #shinyplace. These influencers
encouraged their followers to do the same and the rest – as they say
– is history.
• Within a month of the campaign launch, Bejeweled climbed from
702 to 182 in Apple’s chart of top-grossing US App Store apps. The
message is clear: if you can afford to pay influencers to promote your
product or service, you could get huge results .
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