Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps
Roughly half of Instagram's users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day.
Facebook-Google duopoly in online advertising has survived multiple challenges, such as Snap's rise, increasing worry among publishers and some advertisers
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Instagram says users under 25 use the app 32 minutes on average per day, while half of the businesses on it produced a story in the last month
Instagram Stories has blossomed from a Snapchat clone into an integral part of the world's largest dedicated visual communication app in the first year since its launch.
Facebook says WhatsApp Status, a Snapchat Stories clone, has 250M DAUs and Instagram Stories has 250M+ DAUs; Snapchat had 166M DAUs as of May
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Instagram says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of its earnings report in May
- Its main competitor Snap just has 166 million daily active users, as of its last earnings report in May — Instagram Stories is now at 250 million daily active users …