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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instagram comes up
Big Ideas 2024: The Consumer AI Battleground Moves from Model to UX with Alex Immerman
- ▶ 5:03 Alex Immerman Instagram came along. 5 times in the scene
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 19:02 John Gedmark We did, you know, it tends to get lost now in the, you know, the Instagram era, but
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
- ▶ 45:47 Robin Arzón I'm not the product of an Instagram. 2 times in the scene
Evolve or Die: The Future of the Creative Process, Artist Authenticity, and the Value of the Music
- ▶ 54:53 Piff Marti And the goal of all of these platforms, like Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, uh, Apple Music, is to have users use their app as long as possible. 2 times in the scene
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 0:41 Steph Smith Instagram, for example, had 13 employees when it was sold for a billion dollars, and that was in 2012. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52 Steph Smith Kodak and Instagram, Blackberry and Apple, and a lot more.
- ▶ 6:49 Steph Smith And we saw little inklings of this, you know, Instagram is a great example where we saw, I think when they sold, there was 13 employees, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:43 Salim Ismail The second is buy them like Facebook bought Instagram and WhatsApp, et cetera.
- ▶ 44:02 Peter Diamandis The same year they go bankrupt, going back to our friends at Instagram, right? 2 times in the scene
Digital Branding: Lessons from Vogue, Monetizing Social, Creator Tips | Field Notes with Connie Chan
- ▶ 6:08 Susan Plageman It wasn't like an Instagram feed.
- ▶ 13:41 Connie Chan I mean, during that time there was the app store, there was Facebook, there was Instagram, there was Snapchat. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Connie Chan Instagram, TikTok, YouTube creators that fall into that bucket of expertise.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 20:57 Danny Postma So this is why people keep sharing it on Instagram, on TikTok, it goes viral really fast.
- ▶ 29:06 Danny Postma And I wouldn't be surprised if, if any social media is going to do this soon, because Instagram already has photos of your face, right?
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 3:39 Chris Schroeder We have this conventional wisdom that if you even use social media in this form, you want to have influentials in Instagram that had a million followers and two million followers.
Building Hardware and Taking on the Phone Giants with Carl Pei
Digital Humans and the Story Behind Lil Miquela
- ▶ 3:17 Trevor McFedries Public polling was tied to the ratings of that show, and so it seemed like there was an emergent new media, um, social, you know, Instagram, like, kind of, like, visual platforms that could be used for telling fictional stories, and that…
- ▶ 8:09 Trevor McFedries Pretty clear to me that there were these, like, underserved, really passionate audiences in Latin America, and so, you know, if you ever look at some, like, pop stars Instagram, 10% of the comments are, come to Brazil, come to Brazil, come…
- ▶ 12:03 Isaac Bratzel Like, people see Mikayla on Instagram, they have a reaction, right?
- ▶ 17:46 unnamed speaker I guess today the technology is getting better, but like, what are the technologies that are going into creating little Michaela and then not just look Michaela on Instagram, but these music videos, I think she's on Spotify.
- ▶ 18:02 Isaac Bratzel I think that there's a huge, um, I would say an order, order of magnitude difference between like the still images on Instagram and doing actual walkworm animated content, right?
- ▶ 28:41 Trevor McFedries I look at my Instagram feed and it's a lot of, like, scripted pranks or things that are, you know, led to make people believe that are real.
The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
- ▶ 28:39 Olivia Moore And I feel like a lot of sellers on marketplaces in the past maybe year, year and a half have probably tried posting a TikTok or an Instagram reel for the first time.
- ▶ 35:13 Zach Cohen So you see like Instagram, you know, maybe five years ago, you'd go on to connect and see what your friends are doing. 2 times in the scene
The Art and Science of Podcasting with Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 29:28 Sriram Krishnan You want to cut it up into short versions for a reels or a TikTok.
- ▶ 29:48 Sriram Krishnan And, but a lot of other platforms have discovery mechanisms like, you know, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, obviously.
- ▶ 35:57 Sriram Krishnan We've seen the rise of YouTube, and then Instagram, and then Snapchat, and then TikTok, and then BDL, and, uh, you know, Discord, and, you know, I can keep going on and on. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:57 Aarthi Ramamurthy We want Insta Reels. 2 times in the scene
Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
- ▶ 16:01 Steph Smith So you can generate these beautiful images of these Instagram looking models and you can put them in all these different backgrounds and you're like, wow, this is amazing.
- ▶ 20:48 Guy Parsons I spent ages trying to get this kind of vintage film look, but if you're like an Instagram influencer, you know, which I'm sure you are, um, who isn't?
- ▶ 24:33 Steph Smith And then I also, in terms of these visual styles, I mean, it reminds me of, you mentioned Instagram. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:33 Guy Parsons Content so good that it's like better than Netflix or like better than Instagram or better than it's like, it's the hobby of doing it.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 27:24 Amjad Masad I mean, anytime you make something more accessible, you just get the entire gamut of things like Instagram made photography way more accessible and you get like a, like a long tail of crappy photographs, but you also discover people who…
The State of Apps with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 3:31 Steph Smith And again, I'm feeling kind of old here, but during my era, you know, we're, we're thinking of Facebook, we're thinking of Twitter, um, Instagram, Snapchat, and none of these appeared in the top three. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Steph Smith I don't like the fact that everyone looks like a supermodel on Instagram.
- ▶ 8:36 Olivia Moore My view is that TikTok, Instagram reels, and these other short form video platforms have created this very unique opportunity where you can go viral
- ▶ 11:05 Olivia Moore Like, think about the early days of Instagram, like, as more of your friends came on Instagram, it was a better experience for you and a better experience for them because you were seeing a lot more posts of, from people that you know and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Olivia Moore Again, like, low cost for now, great channel for now, similar to how Instagram and Facebook ads got so much more expensive.
- ▶ 23:00 Olivia Moore There used to be this kind of paradigm in consumer where the goal was to build an app, get it to the mainstream, get it to Facebook level, Instagram level, millions, if not hundreds of millions of users, and then you would monetize people…
- ▶ 43:27 Olivia Moore This is to me comparable to the moment for millennials where Selena Gomez was like, I can't go on Instagram anymore.
- ▶ 43:45 Olivia Moore I think Instagram reels and YouTube shorts benefit from that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:27 Olivia Moore Instagram is trying to build this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:00 Steph Smith It's a great point, this idea of, like, reducing attention spans and what comes next, because if you think about it, it used to be, like, you read, like, a 10 minute long article, people got bored of that, then you watched a, like, five… 4 times in the scene
The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 6:21 unnamed speaker And then you have that sort of change where now you have AOC and people going completely direct to their audience on live streams on TikTok and Instagram.
2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
- ▶ 2:23 Steph Smith I'm just going to use Instagram as an example here. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:29 Connie Chan Now the creators who are big on Instagram might not be the best sellers.