VSCO, the company behind popular apps VSCO Cam, DSCO, and VSCO Film for Lightroom, announced today that it now has 30 million monthly active users across its platform. This is the first time that VSCO has revealed statistics of this sort, and the company says its number of accounts have grown 802 percent year over year. Images published to the platform are up 952 percent, and 5 billion images are viewed (or “consumed,” in VSCO parlance) each month. VSCO says that 80 percent of its userbase is international, and that it’s seen “explosive growth” in China in the past year.
Still, 30 million active users doesn’t compare too favorably to the 400 million Instagram, the app most often compared to VSCO, reported back in September of last year,…