Instagram to focus on video content, will no longer remain a photo-sharing app
3 years, 5 months ago

Instagram to focus on video content, will no longer remain a photo-sharing app

India Today  

Video content is becoming a thing on the Internet. With almost every social media app working towards prioritizing video content, soon there will be a dedicated video section in every app that you possibly in your phone. Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri too is not content with Instagram being just a photo-sharing app. Right now we’re focused on four key areas: Creators, Video, Shopping and Messaging.” In the video, he said that Instagram is trying to build new experiences in four areas including creators, video, shopping and messaging. Instagram to soon let creators make money out of their content On a related note, Instagram will now let creators post exclusive content for paid subscribers.

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From enhanced DM to extended limits, top new Instagram features rolled out in 2024
5 days, 4 hours ago

From enhanced DM to extended limits, top new Instagram features rolled out in 2024

India TV News  

2024 has been an exciting year for social media users, especially those on Instagram. With over 2 billion users worldwide, the platform rolled out several new features throughout the year that enhanced the experience for everyone. As we approach the end of 2024, here's a look back at some of the major updates Instagram introduced for its users. Introducing Meta …

Instagram Prioritizes Video Quality and Engagement with New Algorithm
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Instagram Prioritizes Video Quality and Engagement with New Algorithm

India Today  

Instagram prioritizes video quality and engagement with a new algorithm that favors videos with higher engagement metrics. This move aims to enhance user engagement and retention by showing the highest-quality video Instagram can. However, this strategy has sparked concerns among smaller creators who may struggle to gain traction in a system that favors established accounts. Instagram is introducing new metrics …

Instagram won’t do long-form videos, will focus on short-form content, says head Adam Mosseri
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Instagram won’t do long-form videos, will focus on short-form content, says head Adam Mosseri

The Hindu  

Instagram does not have plans to expand into long-form videos, said head Adam Mosseri in a short video posted this week. Mosseri, who handled Instagram and Meta’s text-based social media app Threads, said there had been questions about longer videos but felt that supporting them would not align with Instagram’s business model or would even “undermine” its core identity. And …

Instagram Upgrade Alert: Editing tools, filters, and more – Check what's new coming
1 year, 1 month ago

Instagram Upgrade Alert: Editing tools, filters, and more – Check what's new coming

India TV News  

Instagram New Features: Instagram, owned by Meta, is making some changes to enhance content creation. Reels Editing Tools Instagram is testing new features for Reel editing which allows users to scale, crop, and rotate individual clips. Users can soon add audio clips to Reels, and 10 new English text-to-speech voices, along with six new text fonts and styles, are being …

Threads API under development to expand Instagram's capabilities
1 year, 1 month ago

Threads API under development to expand Instagram's capabilities

India TV News  

Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri has announced that the company is in the process of developing an API for Threads, Instagram's rival to Twitter. Threads have garnered around 100 million monthly users Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Threads has garnered nearly 100 million monthly users. Image Source : FILEThread and Twitter Threads would not prioritize news content …

Instagram is testing songs in photo carousels | Read to know more
1 year, 7 months ago

Instagram is testing songs in photo carousels | Read to know more

India TV News  

New Delhi: Instagram is testing a new feature within the app which will allow users to add songs to their photo carousel. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on his Instagram broadcast channel, stating that the tool is already available in a “few countries with more to come.” Instagram already has a similar feature, which allows users to tag …

Do not share TikTok videos on Instagram and YouTube- But why?
2 years, 4 months ago

Do not share TikTok videos on Instagram and YouTube- But why?

India TV News  

Instagram and YouTube have introduced new features to discourage the Chinese short-form video platform TikTok. On the other hand, when creators now make a video on YouTube Shorts, they will not be able to download the video and cross-post it to other apps without a "YouTube watermark". "If you're a creator who downloads your Shorts from YouTube Studio to share …

Instagram faces backlash for TikTok-like features, to pause certain features users complained about
2 years, 4 months ago

Instagram faces backlash for TikTok-like features, to pause certain features users complained about

Firstpost  

Just days after Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri doubled down on the recent changes to the app that has made Instagram more like TikTok, the platform has announced that they will be pausing some of the features that users and prominent creators like Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian have complained about. Off late, a user’s feed would just be filled with …

Instagram pauses updates following criticism about being too video focused
2 years, 4 months ago

Instagram pauses updates following criticism about being too video focused

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri says the company is taking a “big step” …

Instagram has been terrible for months
2 years, 4 months ago

Instagram has been terrible for months

Slate  

“Does Instagram totally suck now?” It was a question first posed to me by my sister, about a month ago, and soon it became a question echoed across the greater internet, culminating in headlines this week when our own social media dilettante, Kylie Jenner, brought up the issue. The app developers soon observed that most people were only using Burbn …

Chrissy Teigen debates with head of Instagram over app’s latest changes: ‘We don’t wanna make videos’
2 years, 4 months ago

Chrissy Teigen debates with head of Instagram over app’s latest changes: ‘We don’t wanna make videos’

The Independent  

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Instagram’s Mosseri says videos will dominate the platform
2 years, 4 months ago

Instagram’s Mosseri says videos will dominate the platform

The Hindu  

After the photo and reel sharing social media platform Instagram introduced several updates, company head Adam Mosseri posted a video on Tuesday to address “a lot of concerns” about the app and its future plans. Many users have complained about Instagram’s algorithmic focus on video clips by creators rather than photos posted by their family and friends. This became a …

Sorry, Kylie Jenner, Instagram won’t stop trying to be TikTok
2 years, 4 months ago

Sorry, Kylie Jenner, Instagram won’t stop trying to be TikTok

Live Mint  

Despite a flood of criticism, especially from Kylie Jenner, the most-followed woman on Instagram, the social media platform has pledged to continue pushing for video, full-screen posts and algorithm-driven recommended posts from strangers. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, responded to Jenner's public call to "stop trying to be TikTok" and reverse the alterations with a video message that did …

Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, two of Instagram’s biggest stars, are speaking out against Reels
2 years, 4 months ago

Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, two of Instagram’s biggest stars, are speaking out against Reels

The Independent  

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Instagram Now Showing Full-Screen Videos Like TikTok On Your Smartphone: All Details
2 years, 6 months ago

Instagram Now Showing Full-Screen Videos Like TikTok On Your Smartphone: All Details

News 18  

Instagram has a new plan to copy TikTok, and this time you are going to see all its videos and the feed in a full-screen mode. But he is quick to clarify that even with videos as the main focus of the full-screen mode, Instagram will look to keep photos relevant on the platform. “Photos are still an important part …

Instagram App Is Not Coming To iPads Any Time Soon, Company Confirms
2 years, 9 months ago

Instagram App Is Not Coming To iPads Any Time Soon, Company Confirms

News 18  

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri has said that iPad users are not getting the Instagram app any time soon. In a post on Twitter, Mosseri said that there are not enough iPad users to justify making a dedicated app. Last year, Mosseri said that an Instagram app “would be nice to do," but that Instagram has “a lot …

Instagram Is Shutting Down Separate IGTV App For Long Form Videos
2 years, 9 months ago

Instagram Is Shutting Down Separate IGTV App For Long Form Videos

News 18  

Meta-owned photo sharing platform Instagram is shutting down its standalone app for Instagram TV and will instead focus on keeping all videos on the main Instagram app. The IGTV app, that was launched as Instagram’s competitor to YouTube, was not able to gain the popularity the company had hoped for when the app was first launched back in 2018. Instagram, …

Instagram Planning To Double Down On Videos, Give More Control To Users In 2022
2 years, 11 months ago

Instagram Planning To Double Down On Videos, Give More Control To Users In 2022

ABP News  

New Delhi: In a bid to give more power to users, Meta, owned popular photo-sharing app Instagram is mulling to double down on videos on the platform and work more towards giving users more control for better transparency in the coming year. According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, the company's key priorities for next year will be videos, transparency, creators …

Instagram pauses plans to develop app for kids under 13
3 years, 2 months ago

Instagram pauses plans to develop app for kids under 13

Al Jazeera  

The pause gives the photo-sharing app a chance to listen to concerns of parents and lawmakers and respond accordingly, Instagram’s chief said on Monday. Development plans for Instagram Kids are on hold for now, the photo-sharing app’s chief announced on Monday, after The Wall Street Journal reported in a series of investigative articles that Facebook is aware that Instagram is …

Instagram Says It Is No Longer a 'Photo-Sharing' App, New Tools Incoming
3 years, 5 months ago

Instagram Says It Is No Longer a 'Photo-Sharing' App, New Tools Incoming

News 18  

Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app, company head Adam Mosseri said in a video posted on Instagram and Twitter. Mosseri notes that to keep up with competition such as TitTik, which is “huge,” and YouTube that is even “bigger,” Instagram will experiment with new video upgrades in the “recommendation” space. Meanwhile, Instagram has been long rumoured to be working …

Instagram to Get New Tool to Let Influencers Connect With Brands, 'Creator Shops' in the Works
3 years, 7 months ago

Instagram to Get New Tool to Let Influencers Connect With Brands, 'Creator Shops' in the Works

News 18  

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday the company will build new features starting with Instagram for content creators to earn money from recommending products on the app and a marketplace to help connect brands with influencers. While speaking with Adam Mosseri, head of Facebook-owned Instagram, during a livestreamed video, Zuckerberg also said the social network will launch “creator shops” …

Instagram is realizing it’s not so easy to knock off TikTok
3 years, 10 months ago

Instagram is realizing it’s not so easy to knock off TikTok

CNN  

CNN Business — It took less than six months for Instagram’s Snapchat clone to catch up to its rival’s audience size and be credited with stunting Snapchat’s user growth just as the company prepared to make its Wall Street debut in 2017. “TikTok is light years ahead of Reels,” said Evan Asano, CEO of influencer marketing agency Mediakix, referring to …

Instagram Extends Live Stream Limit to 4 Hours; Announces Two New Features for Live
4 years, 1 month ago

Instagram Extends Live Stream Limit to 4 Hours; Announces Two New Features for Live

News 18  

Instagram has announced new updates for live videos on the platform. The Facebook-owned photo sharing platform took to Twitter to announce the three new features for its Instagram Live feature. The three new features announced by Instagram are the ability to go live for up to 4 hours, the ability to save Instagram Live videos for 30 days, and a …

Instagram turns 10: How a photo-sharing app redefined the way we socialise
4 years, 2 months ago

Instagram turns 10: How a photo-sharing app redefined the way we socialise

The Hindu  

A decade ago, two Americans, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, founded a social networking platform dedicated to sharing photos. “We’re witnessing enormous shifts in how people create and consume culture as tools that were only available to the most sophisticated media organizations are now literally in the hands of billions,” Instagram said. According to a report titled ‘Average Time Spent …

Instagram turns 10: 10 Instagram features worth trying on Android, iOS
4 years, 2 months ago

Instagram turns 10: 10 Instagram features worth trying on Android, iOS

India TV News  

Instagram's stance in the social media space is undeniably strong. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app resides on every other smartphone these days, either for us to post stuff and keep the social media game strong, or acting as a source of income for many The app, which was introduced to us by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger has now turned 10, …

Instagram expands shopping to IGTV, Reels to get feature later this year
4 years, 2 months ago

Instagram expands shopping to IGTV, Reels to get feature later this year

India Today  

Instagram has announced the global expansion of Shopping service across IGTV. As per reports, IGTV users can either complete the purchase within the app through the in-app checkout or they could go to the seller’s website to make the purchase. Instagram also announced that TikTok rival Reels is also set to get monetised some time later this year. With the …

As Instagram Turns 10 this Month, Here is How it Made Our Lives Camera-ready
4 years, 2 months ago

As Instagram Turns 10 this Month, Here is How it Made Our Lives Camera-ready

News 18  

#Foodporn, #nofilter and #TBT: Little known to the general public a decade ago, Instagram has weaved its way into the daily lives of a billion people, changing the way we eat, travel and consume. Ten years on from its launch, Instagram has evolved far beyond selfies, as it redefines “experiences” and blurs the lines between reality and someone’s carefully curated …

Instagram tests new home screen with shopping, Reels tab
4 years, 3 months ago

Instagram tests new home screen with shopping, Reels tab

The Hindu  

Instagram is testing different versions of the home screen for its app with separate shopping and Reels tab in all of its layouts. All three new versions have different looks, but Reels and shopping tab have notable placement in all versions while other sections have been moved around. In another layout, Instagram has six shortcuts on the bottom row, including …

Instagram Reels: How to create, watch, save 15-second short videos on Android, iOS?
4 years, 5 months ago

Instagram Reels: How to create, watch, save 15-second short videos on Android, iOS?

India TV News  

Instagram is the arguably popular app that has loads of features attractive enough. Much like IGTV posts have the IGTV icon, Reels posts too get the Reels icon Image Source : VANSHIKA MALHOTRA Instagram Reels in Explore section of Instagram When you spot any such video, tap on the Reels icon and you will be taken to the Reels section …

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