The Instagram Stories - Social Media News

Have you ever experienced the situation when you accidentally like an old Instagram post someone made? If you unlike it immediately, will they know? The Head of Instagram explains the difference between how phone notifications work vs. Instagram in-app notifications. Also, I share my favorite takeaway from the Creator Economy Live event for when an Instagram post flops, the Edits team adds the ability to share directly to Stories, and the musical artist Sombr shares his songwriting process where he only writes song snippets to see what performs well before writing the rest of the song.

 

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Instagram: What happens when you like someone's old Instagram post? (Instagram)

Edits: Edits adds the ability to share to Stories, plus more (Instagram)

Strategy: Sombr explains his A/B testing songwriting process (TikTok)

YouTube: The Video Version of This Show (YouTube)

 

 

 

 

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The Head of Instagram answers questions weekly, and on this show, I dissect the answers. On today's episode, we break down who can see what on Instagram - if someone can tell you viewed their profile, if there's a way to know who saved and shared your post or Reel, and if someone sends you a DM you haven't accepted yet, if they can tell you read it. We'll also get in to some reach related questions, including if having multiple captions on a carousel will boost reach, and if carousels are still valuable. Plus we get into some feature suggestions, and at the end, I ask for questions so I can do my own Ask Me Anything episode.

 

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People say all the time how much they wish Instagram could go back to the way it was before the algorithm - back when things were chronological and you saw content from only the people you chose to follow. Instagram lets you do that with the "Following" feed. Also you can remove an Instagram follower without them knowing, and Instagram added the ability to replace the audio on any of your existing posts.

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Instagram: Change Audio on Reel or Post (Instagram)

Instagram: 3 Features You Might Not Know About (Instagram)

YouTube: New! Shows for YouTube and Open Call for Brand Deals (YouTube)

 

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On Mondays we dive into what the Head of Instagram shared on his weekly Ask Me Anything videos. This week he answers a bunch of questions about Reach, including if removing unwanted followers will help and if turning your account to private temporarily then back to public will help.

 

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Instagram adds the ability to make a Series, linking videos together, and additional languages that videos can automatically be translated into. The Edits team adds custom font support, lyrics as captions, and the ability to search for effects. In the strategy portion of the episode, we get into how to grow long form YouTube by using YouTube Shorts.

 

Links:

Instagram Adds Translations (Instagram)

Instagram Adds Series (Instagram)

Edits Adds Custom Fonts Support, Lyrics as Captions and Search for Effects (Instagram)

YouTube: How To Grow Long-Form with Shorts (YouTube)

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