⚡ Photo-Focused Social Media

Photo-focused social media platforms are networks designed primarily for sharing, discovering, and organizing visual content.

They typically emphasize image publishing and curation, visual feeds or boards, tagging and discovery features, creator profiles or portfolios, and social interactions such as likes, comments, and follows.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading photo-focused social media platforms in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Instagram, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 57.7% share.
It is followed by Pinterest with 5.8% and Flickr with 1%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of platforms that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Photo-Focused Social Media Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 6 photo-focused social media platforms we detect, ranked by their market share.

Available filters: Bookish Decentralized Photo Video
RankNameMarket share
1
Instagram
Menlo Park, California, United States

A photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms.

Free
2
Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States

A social media platform for sharing and categorizing images in the form of pinboards.

Free
3
Flickr
Mountain View, California, United States

A photo-sharing social network with free storage for up to 1,000 photos.

Free$10.44/month
4
Behance
San Jose, California, United States

A platform for creative professionals around the world to showcase their own work and to discover the creative work of others.

Free$9.99+/month
5
Pixelfed

A decentralized open-source social network service for photo sharing.

Free
6
Vero
New York, United States

A social media platform with no ads and no data mining.

Free
Data is based on the analysis of 3,040,870 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.