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YouTube is killing off “Stories” to focus on Shorts and Live

May 26, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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YouTube is killing off a feature you probably weren’t using anyway and won’t miss. June 26th marks the death of YouTube Stories, a feature released in 2017 shortly before the company announced “Reels” – now YouTube Shorts. What made YouTube Stories different is that the videos were temporary, disappearing after a week. It also wasn’t available to users with fewer than 10,000 subscribers.

This 10K subscriber requirement almost certainly doomed YouTube Stories from the beginning. It remained in beta since its initial launch and never gained in popularity at all. In fact, I can’t recall a single time in the last six years that I’ve ever seen any of the creators I follow actually post a “Story”. Sure, there have been plenty of Shorts, but not Stories.

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Meta cuts Reels payouts for creators. Again

Mar 10, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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It feels like déjà vu, but Meta is cutting Reels payouts for creators again. It looks like Reels aren’t as lucrative as they thought, so the company has decided to stop offering Reels Play bonus deals to creators, on both Instagram and Facebook.

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Mosseri admits Instagram went too far showing videos over photos

Jan 25, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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We’ve ranted about Instagram hating photographers and turning into TikTok, with a gazillion reels it forces upon us no matter how much prefer photos. But when Instagram CEO himself admits the app’s gone too far with pushing videos, we know we’re right.

On his Instagram profile, Adam Mosseri recently shared a Story admitting that things have gone a bit out of control. He said that Instagram indeed went too far with pushing videos, but promised a better balanced for those of us who’d still rather look at pretty pictures.

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Instagram is about to cram even more ads into your feed

Oct 5, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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If you thought there’s no corner on Instagram without ads, you’re wrong, my good friend. Meta can always make room for more, and that’s exactly what it’s about to do.

As the company is struggling with a major financial loss, it needs a way to generate more revenue. So, Instagram is about to get even more ads, and they’re going to be everywhere.

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Oh look, now Twitter has Reels too

Sep 30, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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After Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, now it’s Twitter’s turn to copy TikTok’s short-form videos. That’s right, from now on, you can also go to Twitter and waste hours watching short vertical clips. And pretty much like Instagram, Twitter will also force its version of “Reels” upon you in the Explore tab.

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Instagram Reels’ engagement sucks, leaked report shows

Sep 13, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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In an attempt to be as popular as TikTok, Instagram has been pushing Reels in every possible way. One would say that the platform is seeing a benefit from turning almost everything into a Reel. However, judging from a recently leaked report, this isn’t quite true. It’s exactly the opposite.

According to the report, Instagram users are not really spending much time watching TikTok-esque short-form videos. What’s more.  it appears that most Reels users “have no engagement whatsoever.”

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You can now cross-post Instagram Reels to Facebook

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Aug 17, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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Instagram likes Reels. It likes them so much that it turns all your videos into them, and now it lets you cross-post them to Facebook too.  From now on, if you use both social media apps, you can post your Reels directly to both of them.

Along with cross-posting between the apps, some other changes are coming to Instagram as well. And yes, of course, they’re Reels-related. But if you’ve started gathering likes and comments through the TikTok-esque short videos, you may actually like these.

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After user backlash, Instagram gives up on becoming “Tinstatok”… For now

Jul 29, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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I don’t remember people complaining more about Instagram ever since its algorithm-based Feed replaced the chronological one. But it looks like users are fed up with the app’s efforts to become a poor copy of TikTok. So fed up, in fact, that it made Instagram ditch the changes it’s been making to the app recently. Or at least they’re ditching them until the dust settles.

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Instagram responds to video backlash: “The world is changing fast, we need to evolve”

Jul 27, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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I’ve noticed lately that a lot of Instagram users have been complaining about the reach they get on photos. I experienced it myself: the reach on Reels with absolutely the same subject is much higher, even though I’m way better at taking photos than I am at making Reels.

There has been a lot of criticism about this, and a recent report even suggests that Instagram cuts your reach for photos by 44%. It looks like the company’s CEO Adam Mosseri couldn’t ignore the backlash anymore. So, he recently responded to it in a video, saying that Instagram will keep supporting photos but that “it needs to evolve.”

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Report: Instagram’s Reels cut reach for photos by nearly 50%

Jul 21, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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It’s not a secret that Instagram has been prioritizing Reels over photos for quite a while now. I’ve seen many creators and artists switching to TikTok-esque short-form videos, complaining that they feel like they need to do it if they want to keep their reach.

As a recent report shows, it’s not merely a feeling. Social media marketing platform Later did a thorough analysis of Instagram content to compare the reach of traditional posts between 2019 and 2022. As it appears, the reach for traditional posts decreased by 44%! Could Reels be to blame?

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