5 incredible social stats to celebrate World Photo Day

World Photo Day is a fun holiday celebrated on 19 August each year. First established in 2010, the day celebrates each and every one of us who’ve ever clicked a shutter button, and the results thereafter. And you know, most of what we produce are pretty important to those enormous, multi-billion dollar internet companies.

Some rely almost squarely on uploaded images in their daily running and prosperity, and the numbers behind those snaps (rather than the snaps itself), are probably worth a thousand words themselves.

For a peek at just how important a role images play on the internet, have a look at these five quick, and quite incredible photography and imaging stats.

1. Instagram celebrated 40-billion image uploads in mid-2015. Around 95-million images are uploaded each day from 300-million daily users. According to Internet Live Stats, around 737 images are uploaded to the service every second.

2. According to Adweek, Snapchat sees over 9000 snaps uploaded per second, most of which include photographs. That equates to over 700-million snaps a day.

3. Quite incredibly, Facebook announced in 2009 that it saw 220-million new photographs uploaded to the network per week — that’s 25TB more storage the company required per week. We can only imagine what those current numbers are.

4. According to statistics firm KPCB, we (the internet) shared a total of 1.8-billion photographs to Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Snapchat and Flickr a day in 2014. That’s about 657-billion a year. Rember, this number doesn’t count other social networks or chat apps, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and the like.

5. Facebook-owned WhatsApp now boasts over a billion users, but its users share over 1.6-billion photographs a day within 42-biliion messages.