Visiting Rhinebeck’s 18 Most Instagrammed Places
As part of our series on the most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley, we present Rhinebeck: known as “a town in Dutchess County.” It’s been home to a range of characters over the last 100 years, ranging from John Astor IV (a millionaire businessman and investor who was born in Rhinebeck and died on the Titanic),…
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Visiting the Town of Esopus NY’s 10 Most Instagrammed Places
When we think about the Town of Esopus, NY 5 Hs come to mind: Hikes, History, the Hudson, and Headless Horseman. We pulled down a year’s worth of Instagram posts taken within the town, and did some data magic to figure out which locations got geo-tagged the most by people posting pictures to Instagram. The…
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The 11 Hudson Valley Hikes That Get Googled The Most
Some people have mythical, trusted sherpas who can relay all of the details of different Hudson Valley hikes to them. For everyone else, there’s Google, which leads to Mike Todd and Hike the Hudson Valley. Going on a hike requires a lot of information, and his site has the goods. On his 75+ hiking guides,…
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The New York Capital Region’s 66 Most-Instagrammed Places and Influencers
Kingston will always be the first capital of New York, but we decided to turn our gaze to the north and see what’s going on in New York’s fourth capital, Albany. We discovered that Instagram is very much an Albany thing (in addition to the steamed hams). As a digital marketing agency based in the…
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We Visited Beacon’s 16 Most-Instagrammed Places
This is our tenth entry in a series of articles about the Most-Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We do these articles because we’re curious about what inspires and excites people in different local communities; looking at social media data is one way of reverse-engineering that. Why are we covering Beacon? We’ve been…
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New York’s Top 37 Breweries and Beer Influencers on Instagram
There’s no end in sight for the popularity of craft brewing. Two thirds of Americans have an average of four alcoholic drinks a week. Instead of buying mass-produced beer, more and more people are flocking to the world of craft brewing, trying to taste authenticity, community and craftsmanship for a couple of dollars more than…
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The 67 Most-Instagrammed Locations in the Catskills
In today’s world, the act of pulling out your phone, taking a picture someplace, and posting it for your friends on Instagram is a significant action. It means in that moment, whatever you’re doing, in whichever place, is inspiring to you, and you want to remember it. While Instagram data can’t tell us the actual…
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Visit New York’s 12 Most-Instagrammed Cideries
Cider is an exploding industry in New York State; according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, the number of cideries tripled between 2014 and 2016. We counted 76 NYS cideries on the Cider Guide website, and many more are surely in the works. While we worked on our Ultimate Guide to Cider Marketing (which includes insights from…
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Where to Observe Taco Tuesday in Kingston, NY
RESTAURANTS Diego's Taqueria 38 John St (845) 338-2816 Diego’s is the King Kong of the Kingston taco scene. They always have interesting specials and the owner is truly about that taco life: he has one tattooed on his leg. It's hard to imagine Uptown Kingston without Diego's, but Lucy's Tacos was in that space just…
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Wappingers Falls’ 13 Most-Instagrammed Places
There's a lot to discover in Dutchess County, even packed in with the strip malls of Route 9. One example is Wappingers Falls, which is a scrappy village of 5,500 people in a square mile of real estate between Poughkeepsie and Fishkill.We'd been planning on visiting as part of our series of "Most-Instagrammed Places" blog…
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