Instagram recently announced the opening of its Application Program Interface (API), allowing marketers to start purchasing and posting ads to help automate Instagram advertising campaigns and target their specific audiences.   This is big news for digital advertisers who recognize the influence Instagram has with millennials. In the...

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Humans, by nature, are visual beings. Photographs, especially on the web, attract more users than text-only posts or tweets. Just look at one of the hundreds of studies conducted that examine what online content users engage the most with. Photos allow messages to come across clearly without having to be deciphered like lines of text would. As such, more and more companies are turning to photo-based social media sites, like Instagram, to expand their social media influence and company brand awareness.
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Last year, in San Antonio alone, the creative industry accounted for no less than $4.6 billion in economic activity. The creative industry has grown in a powerful way, vertibably thriving in Texas compared to other recession-time and post-recession industries. And lately, it’s no wonder why. Image focused sharing networks like Pinterest and Instagram have made it even more important than ever for brands to have access to graphic artists and even photographers. Traditional print advertising may be on a decline, but businesses still need creative artists – just ones familiar with a different type of medium. Several companies still serve target demographics that include millions of pinning, instragramming, photo-phile customers who are borderline addicted to their image-focused discovering, sharing, and reposting/pinning social networks.
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Simply put pictures are fun – and they’re valuable. Breaking business processes or concepts out of their rigid written form can help individuals grasp elusive ideas more concretely and quickly. It can clarify statistics and make long lists of data instantly comprehensible – a valuable asset for businesses hoping to create widely used and seen content.
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