Instagram reached 600 million monthly active users, an increase of 100 million users compared to June 2016. We are talking about an increase of 100 million users in just 6 months for the most popular photo sharing network , having even more monthly active users than the Skype platform.
The most interesting part is that the number of monthly active users has doubled from 300 million to 600 million in just 24 months, which is a truly impressive achievement. Those from Instagram admitted that they had the largest and fastest growth among all similar platforms that are active worldwide.
In February 2013, Instagram had only 100 million monthly active users, and in 3 years and 9 months, it reached 6 times more users. Instagram was launched in October 2010, so 6 years ago, so in total we are talking about an average rate of 100 million new users every year, much more than other competing platforms.
This is how the base of monthly active users of the Instagram application evolved from the moment of launch until now, the platform having a spectacular rise, especially after the acquisition by Facebook.
- October 6, 2010 – Instagram founded
- Dec. 21, 2010 – 1M users
- Septum. 26, 2011 – 10M users
- April 9, 2012 – 30M users
- Nov. 6 2012 – 80M users
- Feb. 26, 2013 – 100M users
- March 25, 2014 – 200M users
- Dec. 10, 2014 – 300M users
- Septum. 22, 2015 – 400M users
- June 21, 2016 – 500M users
- December 15, 2016 – 600M users
