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Need Instagram attention? Use a filter

Alex Yau
May 21, 2015

Are you an Instagram addict who’s keen to make photographs more popular? You should consider placing warmer filters on them. 

Research from Yahoo and Georgia Tech has revealed that filtered photos are 21 per cent more likely to get views, and 45 per cent more likely to receive comments.

What kind of Instagram, Twitter or Flickr filters should I use?

Warmer looking filters get the best results, while colder ones have less of an impact.

So the next time you want your Instagram photographs to get more attention, it’s probably worth ignoring any darker filters…

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