According to the Techradar TV sales in the first quarter increased by 9.9% year-on-year (46.6 million units), bringing revenue up from $20.63 billion to $27.39 billion. Sales of high-end TVs played a big part in this growth. LG’s OLED TV shipments doubled year-on-year. By the end of the first quarter, the company has sold a total of 7.2 million TVs, including OLED and LCD. Compared to the same period last year, growth reached 15%. Meanwhile, the demand to buy Samsung Neo QLED TVs has also increased. The company sold a total of 11.6 million TVs in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 11.1%. Samsung holds 46.5% market share of 75-inch TVs or ultra-wide screens. Besides, the Korean giant occupies 52.4% of the 80+ inch TV market. Samsung is leading the global TV market share. In Vietnam, according to the latest report of research firm GfK, by the end of the third quarter of 2020, the three leading brands in market share are Sony, Samsung and LG. In which, Samsung accounted for the largest share, up to 44.7%. However, while Samsung and LG continuously increased 1-5% market share year over year from 2018, Sony’s “piece of cake” gradually got smaller, from 32.6% in 2018 to 25.9% in end of September 2020. In April, Sony launched the brand new BRAVIA XR series of TVs, packed with technology and announced a focus on the premium TV group. Share with Zing Satoru Arai, the new CEO of Sony Vietnam, said the world’s first “cognitive intelligence” technology that Sony owns will be the focus of the new business strategy. Instead of just searching and analyzing image elements such as color, contrast and details individually like conventional AI, the new Sony TV processor can cross-analyze several hundred thousand elements. at the same time similar to how the human brain works. Meanwhile, rival Samsung also launched a new series of TVs including Neo QLED, Micro LED TV and Lifestyle TV series. According to Samsung, the Neo QLED series will feature Backlight Dimming as the main technology, which helps to precisely control Quantum Mini LED lights 40 times smaller than conventional lights, helping the TV control light and picture quality. better photos. In addition, the Neo Quantum 8K processor uses data generated from 16 artificial neural networks, which can upscale normal images to near 8K standards. Samsung’s new Micro LED TV line also has many technological improvements and a better price than before.

Instagram used to be a place where you could find community and discover your passion for photography. Since 2017, however, I’ve noticed a change as the platform transitions to algorithmically sorting photos in news feeds. This change causes the images displayed to be related to the characters or issues that the user is interested in. This is the reason photographers are no longer interested in this application even though it used to be a place to incubate their passion. The original Instagram app. Photo: Techradar. Before Instagram, photography forums and platforms like Flickr and Tumblr used to be a place to connect photo lovers with each other. These communities are run by forum administrators or members. And most of all, without any intervention of algorithms like today. The Algorithms Behind Instagram Instagram has billions of users every month, so it’s impossible to control the huge amount of content posted every day. According to the Omnicore , up to 95 million images are shared every day on this app. Instagram has used algorithms instead of human factors to control and decide which content should be shown priority. Specifically, only posts with your personal photos or special moments will be prioritized by Instagram. It seems that this algorithm is “Facebookizing” Instagram. Users reflect on Instagram’s new algorithm, asking the app to bring back the chronological display of photos. Photo: Techradar. I tried posting an old photo of myself on Instagram with my birthday message. Surprisingly, this photo got the most engagement of anything I’ve posted in the past 12 months. The artworks of these photographers will now be difficult to reach their Instagram followers. On average, only 5-10% of followers interact and comment on each photographer’s post. Specifically, you will get 150-300 interactions for every 3,000 followers you have, or even less. According to Instagram, their algorithm has not changed, if you want to get a lot of likes, then work hard to interact with other accounts. A rival shopping and copying app Instagram seems to be obsessed with competing in the market by copying the competition. The proof is after the success of TikTok with the total number of app downloads increasing by 800% from the beginning of 2018 to the end of 2019. Not long after that, Instagram responded by launching the Reels function in August 2020. At the same time, TikTok launched e-commerce support on each of its videos. On December 10, 2020, Instagram announced that a shopping feature was integrated into Reels similar to what TikTok did. Instagram’s shopping feature and Snapchat’s Instagram stories feature were copied from Snapchat. Photo: Techradar. Facebook is also adding Instagram features to its platform. Stories on Instagram can now also appear on Facebook, and more than that Facebook is preparing to test the Reels feature. There are still many other options It looks like Twitter and TikTok are benefiting from users who are frustrated that Instagram is slowly becoming Facebook. Twitter is a suitable platform for photographers while still carrying the same values ​​​​as the photography forums of the past. Additionally, Twitter has just launched a 4K photo feature on its mobile app. Facebook allows users to cross-share Reels from Instagram. Photo: Techradar. Besides, video content creators on TikTok are encroaching on Youtube with popular “how-to” videos. Instagram needs change If possible, Instagram should give users the choice of showing photos in the news feed between appearing in chronological order or by interaction between accounts. Next are the paid plans, with these users will not be affected by the advertising of third parties. In addition, Instagram should have more premium plans for businesses and celebrities that come with benefits like sales and advertising.