How to give credit on instagram

Instagram Etiquette: How to Properly Credit + Regram

In previous blog posts, we outlined the reasons why Instagram is the best and most effective platform for interior designers to invest their time and resources. We touched briefly on the downside of the social media app: accounts that copy or pass off work/images as their own. If you’re consistently putting out your own content on Instagram, you’ve likely stumbled upon your own work or image only to find that you weren’t given any credit and that your intellectual property was stolen for views.

The flipside of that is when users omit credits accidentally. As small business owners and makers, we are constantly searching for and sharing inspiration, but it’s important that we do our due diligence to cite sources properly. It’s proper Instagram etiquette and the best way to be a responsible member of the online creative community. Here are a few rules to keep in mind.

Instagram Etiquette

Always Give Credit

This should go without saying, but in case it doesn’t—always, always credit the source. Even if they’re your competitor, give credit. Even if no one else is crediting the original poster, give credit. Even if it takes some time and effort, give credit. If there are multiple sources (designer, builder, photographer, artist), give credit to as many as you possibly can. Even if you’ve been given permission to repost, give credit. Social media is one of the only places where plagiarism isn’t strictly punished, but that doesn’t make it okay. Sharing others’ work without tagging them is lazy and reflects poorly on your account.

Pro Tip: We recommend tagging sources in both the image and in the caption. This is dual purpose. Firstly, it’s a conscientious move to cover all your bases and let your following know whose original content it is. Additionally, this ensures that your repost will be seen by the original account which is great exposure for you!

If you find yourself on the other side of an Instagram faux-pas, remember it doesn’t cost you anything to be kind. Community over competition, right? Leave a friendly, but a straightforward comment like “Thanks so much for sharing my [insert photo content here]! I’m so glad you like it!” If they don’t correct their error, follow up with a DM. We like to send something like: “Hey there! Thanks so much for sharing my [insert photo content here]. Would you mind please crediting me as the source by tagging me in the caption and photo? I so appreciate the share!”

Do the same if you were tagged, but your photographer or another important source wasn’t. Most people will be happy to correct their mistake.

from our #IDCOatHome feed via The Haven List | Interior Design and Photography: Kate Zimmerman

Ask Permission

If you aren’t sure whether you should repost a photo from an account, ask for their permission first. Photographers, especially, make a living from the use of their photos by brands and shops. Don’t assume that their shots are free for the taking. If you’ve been tagged in a photo or your specific hashtag has been used, you can usually assume that sharing is okay, but it never hurts to go the extra step and ask. This kind of thoughtfulness creates respectful relationships on and off the app.

Don’t Treat Pins Like Stock Photos

Pinterest is not a stock photo source. This is the Instagram rule we see broken most often. Pinterest is an invaluable resource for inspiration, but tagging sources is a non-negotiable. For many images, you’ll be able to locate the source just by clicking through to the linked site. And, no tagging @Pinterest will not cut it. If the image is not linked, try reverse-searching the image on Google. Just go to images.google.com and paste the image URL into the search bar or drag and drop it from another window. If the image is located elsewhere on the internet, you should be able to track down the original source. If not, just re-pin the image and carry on. There are plenty of images you can repost with proper credit.

Good news! You can now reverse image search from your phone, too. It’s a little more complicated, but a desktop isn’t always handy. Here’s the tutorial.

Don’t Edit Someone Else’s Photo

If your reposted content doesn’t flow with your other photos, just skip it. Editing or applying filters to someone else’s original photo is an insult. Repost it as is or find something that fits more cohesively with your other content.

via: My Domaine | Interior Design: Chelsea Robinson Interiors | Photography: Alyssa Rosenheck

Don’t Use A Competitor’s Images to Market Your Business

It’s easy to assume that a mock-up or a well-curated flat lay or shelfie is a widely-distributed stock photo. This is why it’s important to know the source. If the image belongs to a competitor—that they fronted time, effort, and money for—it’s not a good look, and it’s not good for any friendly connections you’re hoping to form.

Don’t Rely Too Heavily on Reposted Content

If you never publish any original content, you might find your follower account eventually dropping. Regramming in moderation is fine, but the primary value of your account will come from your own thoughts and ideas. Here’s to originality!

Instagram Etiquette for Commenting

The amazing Jenny Komenda recently started a discussion about commenting best practices and Instagram etiquette from the reader’s perspective. In the same vein as crediting and reposting, we should always lead with kindness when engaging others in our Instagram community. Check out her story highlights titled Etiquette for good rules of thumb to remember when you are commenting or messaging a poster. It’s a must-read and highlights key points like Tone, Triggering Phrases, Direct Messages, Off-Limit Topics, and when to Unfollow or Mute.

To learn more using IG to level up your business, check out our Studio Sessions Instagram for Designers course.

Looking to browse around the blog? Here are a few more posts you might love:

Why Instagram is the Best Platform for Interior Designers
Optimizing your Interior Design Portfolio for Pinterest
How to Make a Hashtag Happen
Our No-Fail Instagram Editorial Calendar for Interior Designers

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Photo Credit - Why It’s Important to Credit Photos

While user-generated content is a great way to expand your audience and increase engagement, it’s important to learn how to give photo credit on Instagram. By crediting, you’re sharing photos ethically and showing that you’re a trustworthy member of your business community.

Giving photo credit where credit is due within your Instagram posts is extremely important. When you do, you’re showing other members of your community that you’re a valuable partner. In turn, you can count on more cross-promotion on social media, which helps grow your audience!

In this article, we’ll cover why you need to credit, how to give photo credit, what a proper credit looks like, crediting style, benefits to crediting and why it’s detrimental to artists and vendors when you don’t credit. You have the power to make your Instagram profile a wealth of information and inspiration by doing this one simple thing—crediting!

Why You Need to Credit Photos on Instagram

When you’re learning how to give photo credits on Instagram, you need to know that tagging someone in an image is not credit. (For example, some people will say “tap for tags” in their caption or something simple with no other details. ) Unless you personally styled the image and shot the photography, your post needs to credit those who were responsible for creating it.

Why?

Because that photo isn’t yours.

Because someone actually took that beautiful photo.

Because someone planned, shopped, and labored to create that gorgeous tablescape.

Because someone worked on that creative DIY project until his or her fingers bled.

And because someone looking at your feed will WANT something in that image!

Think of your Instagram feed as a “magazine” for your followers that will last for a very long time. If you’re a wedding planner, tagging all participating vendors in a particular wedding is a HUGE networking benefit for you—not only to connect with those vendors, but also to provide valuable information to future brides. Imagine a bride falling in love with a bouquet from one of last year’s weddings—you might not remember who the florist was, but your tag will! That creates awesome added value for you, the bride, and the florist.

LOADS of work goes into creating that content, and those responsible for its creation deserve that little effort of you tagging them in your comment. If you love their work so much that you want to share it on IG, why wouldn’t you mention them? Don’t you love when people share your work on IG and mention you? I know I do!

Plus, here’s a not-so-fun fact: If you don’t properly credit pictures you share on Instagram, the people who own the rights to those images can report your account to IG and cause trouble for your profile.

What is a Proper Instagram Photo Credit?

A proper photo credit means tagging everyone involved in the image within the comments. This is going to mean different things for different businesses and different situations.

A simple rule to follow is to tag everything included in that one single image. If you can see it, credit it. As you can see in the two posts above from HoneyBook members Joy Michelle Photography and Tiffany Tolliver of the EmmaRose Agency, they did this exact thing. If you don’t know who should be credited, dig a little deeper or ask someone who does.

Here are a couple other examples specific to the wedding industry of how to credit photos on Instagram. If you aren’t in the wedding industry, you may still run into similar scenarios when working with different vendors or partners.

Example #1: You’re a photographer who is posting a picture of a bride getting ready for her wedding—she has her hair and makeup done and is wearing a cute robe from Etsy, holding a glass of champagne. The ideal credit would be to tag: the bride, the hair person, the makeup person, and the robe seller from Etsy. Now, you might be thinking, “That’s too much work.” While this might be true, it took a community to make that photograph beautiful, and that’s why those other professionals deserve credit.

Example #2: You’re a florist who is posting a beautiful, tight shot of a bridesmaid in a beautiful turquoise dress, holding the bouquet you made. An ideal credit would be to tag: the photographer, the wedding planner, and the dress she is wearing—and maybe even tag the bride and the bridesmaid.

No one will ever get mad at you for giving them some Instagram-credit love, but they will be pretty disappointed if you leave them off! In most cases where you need to give Instagram photo credits, it’s easier than you think. You’re likely already working with the vendors or partners involved. If not, you can also ask your client for their names and account handles.

Want more Instagram photo credit examples? Here are a few more below from Aisle Society and Elizabeth Anne Designs.

How to Style Your Credits

There are many ways to type out the credits to a photo, but I recommend creating your own “crediting style” to match your brand—and have fun with it. That way, when each of your posts uses the same format, your followers will get used to the information being shared and value it.

For my wedding blog, my crediting looks like this in every post:

Image: @photography / Hair + Makeup: @hairdresser / Flowers: @florist / Dress: @weddingdress

But there are many different ways to write the same thing:

Photography: @photography — H+M: @hairdresser — Florist: @florist — Gown: @weddingdress

photo: @photography… hair: @hairdresser… flowers: @florist… dress: @weddingdress…

Pic: @photography ~ Hair: @hairdresser ~ Bouquets: @florist ~ Dress: @weddingdress

Or, consider using emojis to identify the wedding professional’s specialty, like the bouquet emoji for the florist or the camera emoji for the photographer. No matter how you choose to credit photos on Instagram, everyone involved will appreciate you taking the time to showcase their work.

The Benefits to Crediting

The largest benefit to tagging as many people as possible is networking. Crediting is HUGE for networking. You tag them, they’ll tag you, your followers see them, theirs see you—and it keeps on going. It’s a weird and wonderful fact that couples are now finding their vendors on social media. However, the networking possibilities go so far beyond that.

A bride might notice a number of hairstyles that she loves, and if she keeps seeing that @hairdresser123 is responsible, she might hire that person.

You might spot business cards that you love on @soandso’s profile, click to see who made them, and use that company to make your new cards.

You might see that @flowers + @weddingplanner are doing some awesome styled shoots, so you message them and offer to photograph their next one.

A wedding blogger might fall in love with a photo you shared and decide to repost it using all the credits you added. (Yay!)

Crediting others means you’re more likely to be credited in return. And the more people are talking about you on social media, the easier it is to build a following. As you gain more followers on Instagram, you can be sure some are coming from the partners and vendors in your industry that are starting to credit your work.

With a more targeted audience, your Instagram will become even more valuable for building your community and turning social followers into clients! As you start tagging others, be sure to include a link to your HoneyBook Contact Form in your profile bio. As more people see your work, you can make it easy for them to reach out and start working with you.

Not Crediting is Stealing. Period.

If you don’t own the rights to the image and you don’t credit the person/brand/blog/website who CREATED the image, you’re stealing. This happens to me and my brand Something Turquoise all the time, especially with the “regram” and “repost” features. IG users think that using those apps makes it okay to take images they find on other profiles and share them as their own. But all of those images live somewhere, either on websites or blogs, and have been created for a reason. Before you post, take a second to think of your fellow creatives—then be kind, share with permission, and credit.

Crediting properly on Instagram isn’t just the right thing to do—it has benefits for everyone. So do your part. Go the extra mile. And make your Instagram profile “act” as good as it looks.

If you’re looking for an easy way to collect leads through Instagram and funnel them straight into one organized location, consider using a small business management platform. Your business will thank you!

Yappy, VK clips, Now, Sadnogram: how Russian analogues of TikTok and Instagram* work - July 28, 2022

: Polina Avdoshina / Network of city portals

With the start of a special military operation, many social networks became inaccessible to Russians. TikTok prevents bloggers from uploading new videos and live streaming, and Instagram* and Facebook* have been blocked.

It would seem that the finest hour has come for social networks of our own production. But something did not work out: many Russians continue to use their usual applications using VPNs and do not notice their domestic counterparts. Or maybe no one knows about them?

Service Yappy from Gazprom-Media is one of the Russian-made TikTok analogues, which was launched in November 2021. The application looks nice and quite stylish: the design is made in black and green colors, and the functionality is very similar to that of TikTok. After registration, the application immediately offers to subscribe to several well-known domestic bloggers. Anna Khilkevich, Karina Kross, Valya Karnaval, Yulia Gavrilina and other famous people migrated here from TikTok. True, the asset in Yappy is much smaller, and the same “recommendations” come across in the feed several times. But still, we must pay tribute to the fact that Yappy is a fairly young application that is still developing.

Screenshot: Yappy

More popular " VK clips ". And no wonder, because VKontakte ranks second in Russia in the ranking of the social network index - an indicator that reflects the activity of users. You don't need to download a separate app to view Clips. It is enough to poke your finger at the icon next to the messenger in order to come to your senses in an hour from scrolling the feed with the video. In addition, eminent personalities live in Clips - Anastasia Ivleeva, Ekaterina Varnava, Pavel Volya and even Olga Buzova. Therefore, some videos collect hundreds of thousands or even millions of views.

Screenshot: Yandex.Metrika

But how to determine which of the platforms is the most popular among Russians? For example, you can compare the number of video views of the same blogger on different sites. Valya Karnaval is one of the highest paid Russian tiktokers, according to Forbes. Here's how views and likes differ on a blogger's videos on TikTok, Clips, and Yappy:

Screenshot: Yappy, TikTok, VK Clips

There is, for example, the social network Now , which was developed at the end of March 2022 by former Yandex employee Dmitry Marinin. When you install the application, a logo similar to the Tasty - and that's the point catches your eye. Although, even before the opening of the fast food chain Now, they were accused of plagiarizing the logo of the Russian marketplace WOSK1147.

Screenshot: Now

The design of the application almost completely repeats Instagram: the same feed with photos and "stories", which are called "moments" here. In general, social networks are very similar, but some features are missing in Now. For example, you cannot tag a person in a photo, apply a filter to a photo before posting, and privacy settings are limited to the "delete account" button. In general, the application is still quite raw. Despite this, there is an asset in Now - in the general feed, posts are updated every minute, users like each other and write comments. And they post here the same thing as on Instagram - cats, nature and themselves.

Screenshot: Now

But Sadgram , which also launched at the end of March this year, looks completely different. There are no neon icons and colorful pictures here - everything is done in harsh black and white colors. Even uploaded photos are automatically "discolored" before publication, as if all the juice had been pulled out of them. Sadnogram has this concept: instead of likes - broken hearts, instead of the usual subscription notification - a notification that the user is now sad with you. But that is not all. The social network has a “Secrets” tab - something like a forum where users can anonymously share experiences or ask questions. And not just anyone will answer them, but famous writers and poets: Pushkin with Lermontov or Burliuk with Mayakovsky. These names are assigned to anonymous commentators on Secrets, and this is what comes out of it:

Photo: "Grustnogram"

Posts are created according to the standard scheme: you can adjust the format, contrast and brightness of the photo before publication, and then add a sad caption to it. In this sense, everything here is about the same as on Instagram. However, much is still missing: you can’t archive a post, close your profile from prying eyes and get stuck in “stories” - they simply don’t exist here. Although why are they needed if you can chat with Yesenin?

Photo: Sadnogram

This question is answered by the director of digital agency DeltaClick:

— The main problem of new social networks is their secondary nature. These are analogues of already existing original social media. And as long as the original exists (and Instagram*, TikTok are still available), then the analogue will always lag behind in terms of reach, content, and engagement.

We can see from the behavior of the audience that people have moved not to new networks, but to familiar, understandable and proven media that they trust: VKontakte, Yandex.Zen, the same Odnoklassniki.

The VKontakte clips initially had a small audience and the algorithms did not work very well. But we must pay tribute to VK, the site is actively working to resolve these issues. The quality of the content is gradually improving, the number of bloggers is growing, as is the reach.

Celebrate individuality and stand out on Zero Discrimination Day

Accept cultural diversity, understand and respect our differences, support each other

Geneva, February 25, 2016 - On March 1, people from all over the world will come together to celebrate Zero Discrimination Day. This year's motto is "Be yourself", which means that we call on everyone to stand up for a fair and just society.

Discrimination is still widespread in the world - gender, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion can, unfortunately, be the cause of all kinds of discrimination. Only four out of ten countries in the world have an equal number of boys and girls in secondary school, and 75 countries have laws that prohibit same-sex relationships.

“When the most disadvantaged and vulnerable face discrimination and violation of their rights, it humiliates us all,” says United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “The United Nations is firmly committed to protecting the human rights and dignity of all people.”

Discrimination in healthcare facilities also continues to be widespread. Imagine a doctor telling a young woman who has recently been diagnosed with the HIV virus that she needs to be sterilized, a sex worker is being abused or abused by a nurse, a person with a disability is being denied proper sexual health counseling, a man - a gay man is afraid to reveal his orientation to medical personnel, an injecting drug user dies after being denied treatment, or a transgender person attempts suicide after being denied admission to a hospital.

Health care facilities are supposed to provide safety and proper care, but these incidents happen all too often around the world. Any barriers to access to health facilities, including access to medical testing, treatment and care, must be removed. Everyone should have access to health care. Together with the World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Alliance, UNAIDS is working on an action plan to end discrimination in health care settings.

“On Zero Discrimination Day, we must stand up for ourselves and fight together for the right to live free from stigma and discrimination,” said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. this year on Non-Discrimination Day, we call on people to appreciate and embrace cultural diversity, and to recognize the abilities and knowledge that each of us possesses that enrich and unite society.Promoting diversity in all its forms strengthens social cohesion and provides significant benefits for countries around the world

People can express their support for #zerodiscrimination through pictures, photos, audio and video.