Impact of Instagram on Belgium and your new job!
The first Instagram advertisement in Belgium was officially launched on 1 October 2015. It has been a long time coming, but now you are able to place advertisements on Instagram in Belgium. This is clearly what Facebook had in mind in 2012 when they bought Instagram for 1 billion dollars. Many social networks emphasize increasing the number of users before they introduce an advertising system. That is also the case here.
Instagram has now been in existence for 5 years and has grown exponentially since it began. The future looks bright. The popularity of the social network will continue to increase in the coming years.
The following figures demonstrate what Instagram has achieved over the course of 5 years:
- 400 million active users monthly
- 75% of monthly users are not from the US
- +40 billion photos have already been shared
- 3.5 billion likes per day
- 80 million photos per day
Social media and job applications
Everyone now knows that all companies search your name on Google and all possible social media sites before inviting you for an interview. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are the obvious channels, but in the future, Instagram will certainly be another important tool to keep in mind. Exercise caution with the information and photos that you publish, because Big Brother is watching. It would be a shame to miss out on the job of your dreams by being careless with personal data.
Image: There is no recent Belgian demographic data available, therefore we used data from the Nederlands for this article.
Source: DUO
