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Instagram wants to be a place where people go online shopping

  • Categories Innovation & Technology
  • Date December 2, 2016
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The move comes as social media platforms are scrambling to squeeze more revenue out of their sprawling user base. Last year, both Instagram and Pinterest — a kind of digital inspiration board — added the ability to buy products displayed in photos (Instagram called it a “Shop Now” button; Pinterest dubbed it a buyable pin).

“Most mobile shopping experiences today take people from the shop window right to check out — without giving consumers the opportunity to consider a product and get more information,” the company wrote.

Instagram said internal research showed that only 21% of consumers buy a product the first day they see it online. Most tend to spend a day or longer mulling over an item before buying.

The retailers included in this test can seed their photos with more information, available through a “tap to view” icon. When tapped, tags will pop up on one or more products in the photo, along with prices. Users can tap on a tag to get more details, and then click on the “Shop Now” button to buy it.

Ryan McIntyre, chief marketing officer of e-commerce merchant JackThreads, said the new capabilities will allow the company “to reach guys where they’re already hunting for what’s new.”

“This test is going to change the scope of what we, as retailers, are capable of offering on mobile,” he wrote in the blog post.

Facebook, the owner of Instagram, has been aggressively pushing new features on its popular photo app this year. In August, Instagram launched Instagram Stories, which features the same kind of self-destructing-message structure as Snapchat. Photos and videos posted to this new feature are visible for 24 hours before disappearing.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-instagram-shopping-20161101-story.html

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