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Instagram Updates Hashtag Functionality Offering Discovery Boost

Instagram has recently updated its approach to how hashtags influence discovery on the platform, marking a shift from showing a “Top Posts” feed to broadening user access to a more comprehensive search results page. The change mirrors the user experience in the Explore section, where various elements such as profiles, audio, places, and Reels related […]

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Instagram Threads Tops 150m Users, Ads To Launch In 2024

Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like social media app, continues to show remarkable growth and is making significant strides in the competitive social media landscape. Since its launch, Threads has piggybacked Instagram to rapidly gain users, achieving an impressive milestone of 150 million monthly active users (MAUs), as reported by Meta in April. Mark Zuckerberg, April 2024 “Threads

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Meta Expands Instagram Creator Marketplace For Brands

Meta has announced plans to expand Instagram Creator Marketplace, which will give more brands the ability to search for suitable creators or influencers to work with on marketing campaigns. Instagram’s Creator Marketplace Creator Marketplace was launched in 2022 and initially let brands in the States search and connect with creators based on several criteria, such

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[NEW STUDY] Instagram Reels Outperforming TikTok Across Short-form Video

As we begin a new year, marketers will be reviewing content strategies and looking to find areas of improvement. According to a report from Emplifi, uploading more clips to Reels could be one way to get ahead of the competition. The customer engagement platform analysed thousands of brand-owned social media accounts using one of its

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Instagram Testing Ten-Minute Reels

Where TikTok leads, Reels will normally follow and so it has proven true… again… as Instagram has confirmed to Tech Crunch that it’s testing 10-minute videos after reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi shared some very interesting screenshots. #Instagram is working on the ability to create #Reels up to 10 minutes long 👀 pic.twitter.com/jQTUM9fPsM — Alessandro Paluzzi

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Instagram Chief Explains Latest Algorithm Rankings

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has published a new overview of how ranking algorithms work which could help marketers understand how to optimise reach and performance across Instagram. Different strokes for different folks The first thing that social media managers need to understand is that there isn’t one, grand omnipotent algorithm. Instagram consists of a

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Meta Announces New Video & Augmented Reality Ads

Meta has announced that augmented reality (AR) is coming to Reels Ads and Facebook Stories. Facebook’s parent company broke the news at IAB’s NewFront 2023 and said the update will provide “new ways for advertisers to reach customers, increase campaign performance, and measure results with Reels.” A study by Meta showed that AR ads outperformed

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