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Retail Asia22/06/2023

Instagram introduced Reels in 2020, and since then, this feature’s popularity has grown, reaching over 2.35 billion monthly active users. Now, Instagram is rolling out a new feature for its users in the US. Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram, announced on his broadcast channel that the company will allow users to download Reels to their […]

Retail Asia09/06/2022

On Twitter and TikTok, you have this cool feature to ‘pin’ certain posts on your profile. The pinned items will stay on top of your posts, and whenever a user visits your profile, these will be the first items they see. So, you get to present your profile with the exact highlights you want people […]

Retail Asia07/04/2022

In another attempt to rival TikTok, Facebook now offers a new feature called “Sharing to Reels.” Sharing to Reels will allow creators to post directly to Facebook Reels from a third-party app. From now on, third-party app developers will be able to integrate “Sharing to Reels” directly into their apps, enabling users to post their Reels directly […]

Retail Asia23/02/2022

When Meta accused Apple of costing the company ten billion dollars a few weeks back, Facebook had also shared some of its growth plans for the coming future. Part of its ten billion-dollar restructuring strategy, Zuckerberg stated, included initiating a “transition on our own services towards short-form video like Reels.” This also includes a global launch of Facebook’s […]

Retail Asia16/02/2022

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, announced on Twitter that Instagram is introducing a new feature called “Private Story Likes,” which allows Instagram users to like a Story without the platform sending a direct message to the Story’s author. Before the Private Story Likes feature, to respond to a Story you could only send a […]

Retail Asia03/02/2022

According to a new leak, Instagram could be working on allowing users to create longer Reels than is currently possible. Alessandro Paluzzi, a popular tipster and reverse engineer on Twitter who has released many a juicy preview of upcoming app updates, has discovered that the Meta-owned platform is preparing to introduce a 90-second limit on Instagram Reels, […]

Retail Asia14/01/2022

Instagram is working on ways it can better rival the crazy popular short-video-sharing platform TikTok, and a redesigned way to show Stories is one of them. The company announced such a feature will be coming back last year, but now, it has finally started appearing to some users for testing. The feature was first spotted […]

Retail Asia26/05/2021

Last fall, Instagram announced the launch of its short-form video platform called Reels—TikTok’s unofficial rival. The app allows you to easily record and edit 15-second multi-clip videos with audio, special effects, and plenty of creative tools. By allowing public accounts to share “reels” to the wider Instagram community through a new Explore space, Instagram has seen […]

Retail Asia07/08/2020

Short-form video app TikTok has 41 days to complete a deal with Microsoft or any other U.S. company or else President Donald Trump has said that he will ban the app in the U.S. That’s because TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is based in China and a law in the country allows the communist government to […]

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Instagram enables download of public Reels in the US

Instagram now lets you pin posts and Reels to your profile

Facebook introduces a new way for you to create Reels

Facebook is trying to replace TikTok with new Reels

On Instagram, you can now send and receive private Story likes without piling up unnecessary DMs

Longer Instagram Reels could soon be a thing

Instagram testing TikTok-like vertical scrolling for Stories

Instagram could pay you to use its Reels app

Instagram launches Reels, competition for TikTok