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EyeEm: A Photo Sharing Network Not Dominated by Selfies

Chris Gampat
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12/17/2015
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Last Updated on 12/17/2015 by Chris Gampat

EyeEm Data 2015

For a while now, I’ve always touted how much I prefer EyeEm as a photo network over Instagram. And today, more of the reasons why are coming out. The company released data today that shows that the network is significantly less about selfies, hot chicks, hot chicks taking selfies, etc than Instagram. Instead, the dominant mediums tend to be street photography, architecture and nature

So what else does the data say that’s really amazing?

  • The UK is big for street photography, and considering the work coming out of the Street Photography London community, it just makes a heck of a lot of sense.
  • The UK apparently has the most talented photographers according to the platforms algorithms. Then Germany, then the US, then Spain and South Korea.
  • Apple iPhones still remain to be the most popular camera.

When you consider the quality of work on EyeEm, you’d be pleasantly surprised to see how much of a breath of fresh air it is.

More stats from the press release are below.

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From 2014 to 2015
We found that in 2015, people were less into seeing themselves in photos, and more into shooting architecture and nature.
­ Selfies decreased 33%
­ Street Photography increased 10%
­ Nature increased 40%
­ Animal photography decreased 12%
­ Portraits decreased 15%
­ Food decreased 8%
­ Architecture increased 34%

Most popular topics by country

­ Brazil: love
­ China: people
­ France: black and white
­ Germany: nature
­ Indonesia: selfie
­ Italy: architecture
­ Japan: sky
­ Mexico: selfie
­ Russia: girl
­ South Africa: sunset
­ South Korea: street photography ­ Spain: street photography
­ Thailand: sunset
­ Turkey: selfie
­ UK: street photography
­ USA: nature

Where are the best photographers based?

We asked EyeEm Vision, our revolutionary image recognition technology. Using its algorithm, it assigned each country a score based on the aesthetics of their photography. (learn more about EyeEm Vision, most recently called “EyeVision”)

1. UK

2. Germany
3. USA
4. Spain
5. South Korea

The most common cameras on EyeEm in 2015

It’s no surprise that mobile photography has become our normal, over half of the EyeEm community shoots on mobile.
1. Apple (38.9%)
2. Samsung (20.8%)

3. Sony (5.6%)
4. Canon (5.3%) 5. Nikon (4.2%)
6. LG (4.1%)
7. Motorola (2.6%) 8. HTC (2.0%)
9. Huawei (1.3%) 10. Asus (0.8%) 11. Other (14.4%)

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.