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Retail Asia06/10/2023

Instagram’s Stories is one of the standout features on the social media platform. Data shows that more than 500 million people engage with Stories daily, and a whopping 85% of all Instagram users post a Story every single day. Considering the platform boasts over 2.3 billion active users, that’s quite a substantial number, don’t you think? […]

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Retail Asia16/08/2023

If Telegram is one of the messaging apps you use then you probably already know that a little less than a month ago it finally got a long-awaited feature: Stories. Besides being one of the last messaging apps to adopt Stories, Telegram even made the arguably bad decision of putting them behind a paywall. Okay, to […]

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Retail Asia03/06/2022

According to Instagram, using Reels can significantly increase the number of your followers on the platform. The social media says that, during a 60-day period, public accounts with over 10,000 followers that uploaded at least five Reels got more followers than those in the same category who did not post Reels at all. And, to […]

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Retail Asia19/05/2022

Instagram has rather silently started implementing changes to their signature Stories feature. A limited number of users have already encountered the new Stories layout, which reduces the visibility of excessive posts. At this point, Instagram has become a cultural phenomenon. The social media platform has revolutionized the way people interact and has pushed forward a […]

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Retail Asia17/02/2022

Snapchat announced that it has begun testing mid-roll ads that would appear in the Stories of Snap Stars, who are select creators with a large following, such as public figures or celebrities. According to Snapchat, this new feature will enable Snapchat creators to make more money because, for the first time, Snapchat will share the profits from […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2021

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Meta and Ray-Ban’s Stories glasses just received their latest software update, which broadens up the voice capabilities of their product. The newest Stories glasses update enables you to control them with your voice. You can tell the built-in voice assistant to send texts and make calls using Messenger. The Ray-Ban Stories assistant can now also […]

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Retail Asia17/11/2021

Instagram is going to be adding some welcome new features to the platform in the coming future, according to recent findings from Italian self-proclaimed reverse-engineer and mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi. Paluzzi has always enjoyed tearing down beta APK releases of Instagram, Snapchat, as well as other apps to get an early glimpse of future updates, […]

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Retail Asia15/07/2021

Instagram is taking a powerful new step to combat account hacking and malicious activity on their social media platform. If you yourself haven’t experienced your Instagram account getting compromised, you probably know at least a couple of friends who have. It’s a fairly widespread phenomenon, as unpleasant as it may sound, and it’s about time […]

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Retail Asia05/07/2021

Instagram has been busy with a string of initiatives lately to boost its social media platform and capitalize on monetization techniques. The latest of these is a new “Exclusive Stories” feature, which was discovered by reverse engineer and full-stack Android developer Alessandro Paluzzi. The code Paluzzi found shows the layout of the future option to […]

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Retail Asia05/05/2021

Instagram users will be happy to know that the captions feature has been expanded to Stories. Previously only available in IGTV and the Threads app, captions have now been added to Stories and Reels to provide users with a better experience. You may not always be somewhere where you want your sound on, yet you still […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2021

Post drafts have been part of Instagram for years, but the useful feature has never made its way to the app’s popular Stories section. Soon that will change, as Instagram itself announced on rival platform Twitter. Instead of being forced to choose between posting Stories immediately or saving them to your device for later, an upcoming Instagram […]

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Retail Asia05/02/2021

Instagram borrowed the short-form video format from TikTok and rebranded it as Reels. Now, the Facebook-owned platform is looking to clone another one of TikTok’s ideas. The social media giant has announced that it’s in the process of testing a TikTok-like vertical feed for Instagram Stories, a feature that was rather ironically borrowed from rival […]

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Retail Asia19/07/2019

Instagram has just confirmed it will bring ads to your Explore feed. As one of the go-to features for Instagram users who search for places, shops and connect with people businesses and creators, Explore looks like a great monetization tool. According to Instagram, more than 50% accounts on its social network use Explore every month to see photos […]

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Retail Asia04/06/2019

Back in 2016, Spotify teamed up with song lyrics database Genius to bring “Behind the lyrics” annotations to the Spotify app. They appeared as cards and displayed interesting tidbits about various songs, sourced from the Genius platform. Now, Spotify has decided to outright launch a dedicated “Storylines” feature that allows the artists themselves to share […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2019

Facebook is split into so many products these days that it’s hard to keep track to everything the social app has to offer if you’re not a hardcore user. News Feed, Stories, Messenger are just some of the features that Facebook has made available to users throughout the years. The reason Facebook split its app into […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2019

Instagram is taking its Shopping ads one step further by making it possible for people to buy the products in the ads without leaving the app. The feature, called Checkout on Instagram, is currently being tested in a closed beta program by nearly two dozen businesses and is only available to users in the US. Retail News […]

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Retail Asia25/11/2018

We live in the times of so many possibilities. Therefore starting a new business to earn some extra money could be very easy and done very quickly wherever you are – it could even be Asia. People are really into new technologies there at the moment, especially mobile payments through various apps, so you could […]

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