Infographic: Instagram Statistics 2012

Everyone’s talking about Instagram after the recent $1 billion Facebook acquisition, in just 2 years the app has acquired more than 50 million users. Here’s a nice infographic that shows some pretty impressive stats as Instagram heads toward the 100 million users milestone.

Some highlights from these app stats are:

• Each day on Facebook 300 million photos are uploaded
• Instagram gains one new user every second
• One billion photos have been taken with the app
• There are roughly 58 photos uploaded each second

Apps like these are transforming the way that we share experiences. 

Talked About Viral Videos Of The Week

Google Nexus Advert

With Google pushing into the hardware business, it just launched an emotional advert focusing on kids and the features of the tablet.

New Fifa 13 TV Ad Is Live And It Is Immense

Fifa 13 is about to launch and its new TV ad is looking pretty slick. Tons of people all over the world will be getting pretty excited right about now.

Carlton Draught – Beer Chase

Beer ads can be predicable and boring, but this new Carlton beer ad from Australia is original, funny and unique. It all starts when a group of robbers walk into a bar to celebrate a big job…

What The New iPhone Screen Will Look Like In Action

There is a lot of guess work involved here, but the guys over at Mac Rumors have created a video that shows what the new iPhone screen could look like. It might be nothing like the real thing. but based on all the info we have seen from the iPhone 5 to date, this is probably pretty accurate.

Toshiba – The Beauty Inside

Really nice short film and social tie-in made by Intel and Toshiba to show that every day you wake up different but one thing always reamins constant, and you could play the lead role. Watch the film first (6 mins) and then watch the ‘making of’ after. Thanks Clement Lam for the tip.

Here is the film

and here is the making of ...

The Nike+ House of Innovation Experience

It’s summer. The London Olympics are on and Selfridges are hosting Nike’s House of Innovation. What’s the Nike House of Innovation? Well, it’s a very cool brand experience that is made up of a handful of challenges, exhibitions and environments that converge the physical and digital retail space for “everyday athletes” as they compete against each other and interact with the environment filled with some of Nike’s most innovative products and technologies. Seriously cool…

The World’s First Programmable LED T-Shirt

A T-Shirt OS… Oh yeah, this one is for all you nerds out there. Introducing the world’s first programmable LED T-Shirt, and it’s no set and forget LED, it’s a live, real-time connected object that is powered by a big brain (aka your iPhone) and a smaller brain built into the T-Shirt to process just about anything you want visualise and send to the in-built LED’s…

Tweets, Photos, Animation, Text… You name it, you’ll be able to sync it live with just about anything and have it processed and displayed in real-time onto your new T-Shirt. Want one? I sure do…

Google: Introducing Agile Creativity

Google is famous for its Agile process and now they are attempting to bring that world of experience to creative agencies to help them find an edge and create a more fluid creative/innovation process to keep up with the digital age. In a new site curated by Think With Google, you’ll find a range of Agile Creativity tips and tricks from the world’s best agencies to digest… What do you think?

Red Cross Blood Trade

Company: Red Cross
Agency: Timetobreakdance
Country: Unknown

Ever gave blood to the local blood bank? We usually don't! So how do you encourage the masses to get up and donate? Your video game :) Red Cross is teaming up with all major video games. Donate blood at your local blood bank and get a promotional code, you can use this promotional code whenever you lose a level! One Word: Brilliant!

Gillette: Water Projection Mapping

Company: Gillette (P&G)
Agency: Unknow
Country: USA

Gillette combined a series of various projections onto buildings, walls and ultimately on water, to wish TEAM USA luck at the Olympics, just as the world finished watching the Opening Ceremony.